Yeah I didn’t realise they were rar formats from how they show up on disk - Usually people name.their.torrents.like.this so it fucks up typical file name conventions.

I’ll keep that in mind too, thanks! Not using qbitmanage yet though I’ll have to look into that 👀

EDIT: There’s a fix. https://unpackerr.zip Automatically unzips these rar containers into coherent files for importing via sonarr/radarr. I suppose you can do this manually with tar if you’re brave.

don’t.

idk what resolution you use for streaming but my raspberry pi 4B runs plex at 1080p just fine as long as it isnt using x265/AV1 (but on jellyfin you might be able to use the Pi’s GPU for transcoding).

I use nextcloud too but it’s a tiny bit slower than I’d like, but that’s likely a wifi issue i think.

Literally any PC on Amazon for $200 CAD, then add your own SSD. I’d say 8GB of RAM but that’s just for cache, youll rarely go over 4 in general use.

That, or a raspberry pi 4B/5 which runs you about $150 once you get a case, power supply, powered USB dock for sticking SSDs into (just for safety since technically the pi’s USB ports cant handle certain SSDs power reqs.) and then stick SSDs into that.

Use dietpi (dietpi.com) for setting up your services and it’ll run nice and smooth for anything not H265, which might be annoying but Plex and possibly jellyfin let you transcode stuff in the background which is nice.

I like Dietpi. It’s just a few homelab scripts on top of a stripped down debian ISO designed to reduce resource usage for homelabs while giving some utilities for installing popular homelab software by wrapping common projects around its own “software repo” (custom scripts for installing and configuring projects so they’re a lot easier to get running than normal).

I run mine from a raspberry pi 4b but you can use x86 or other SBCs if you like.

Seeing all the hetzner mentions made me finally look into it and

1. yep, they seem to be cheaper than alternatives without getting into shady territory and

2. pretty easy to set up! I finally have an offsite backup of my home server and it only took me like an hour to do

1. create empty debit account
2. place credentials to account in server’s home directory
3. if you get a call from your new account’s bank, they’ve got your server

Okay so TLDR I’ll need to set up a reverse proxy. Thanks folks!

I watched a talk, “fun with email” by Dylan Beattie, and his personal advice was “dont bother self hosting unless you’re using it for contacting other self hosted users”.

Without the dedicated IT support and clout of a large company he said you’re gonna spend more time asking other servers to whitelist you than you’re gonna actually spend using your email.

Is that something you can corroborate?

Nextcloud but that’s just because it happens to have photos on it. I’ve not got an alternative to Google photos yet (And I’m halfway through my bloody storage!)