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.
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 tossed the PDF here in case you’d like to reference, though it’s a little out of date atm because I need to switch from Mullvad to ProtonVPN for port forwarding (which you can ignore if you don’t care about port forwarding):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: