I am trying to set up my own server for movies/tv with all the bells and whistles to make it the most streaming service like where I can browse and have automatically torrented and downloaded for viewing. I am new to all of it so a guide would be really helpful.
I came across this guide but it is 2 years old and while it most definitely would still be fine I wanted to know if there is anything more current.
I will be using this mini pc to host the server and probably some other things like a lemmy instance.
how much effort do you want to put in? Personally ive been running synology but nextcloud or any number of other options are game. or you can just deploy stuff right on your hardware. I prefer UI’s so I usually run managers.
I’d prefer for it to be straightforward, I want the server to be local so that rules out any cloud offerings. Synology is a NAS right? Do you run your whole pirating server off its hardware?
I run a fairly comprehensive suite of *Arr apps off a Synology DS923+ and it was somewhat straightforward to set up. Note that there’s some setting with the 923 that doesn’t make it optimal for Plex and people prefer the 920 - I run Plex off an Nvidia Shield so that didn’t matter to me.
I wrote up a step-by-step installation guide for myself, mostly for reference / any future times I might need to make changes. tossed the PDF here in case you’d like to reference, though it’s a little out of date atm because I need to switch from Mullvad to ProtonVPN for port forwarding (which you can ignore if you don’t care about port forwarding): https://file.io/FLJh0C6D8BPe
Most of the guide was built using these two folks’ articles as reference:
Synology sells NAS but the platform they produce for it is OSS. It’s bascially a web-based system manager, like C-panel on steroids. I’ve found it really solid for personal stuff. The synolgy NAS systems are just Intel celeron systems with raid controllers and linux. My next synology will likely be a 1-u from microcenter since I can build it a bit cheaper than what they charge.