Hey guys! After over 2 years of me asking how to take the first steps in self-hosting, I think I’ve finally got most of the things I need set up (except for a mailcow server proxied through a VPS, but that’s for another day). I’ve been seeing a bunch of posts here about the *arr stack, and only recently it piqued my interest enough to really warrant a serious look. But I’ll be honest, it’s a bit confusing. For now, I’m just thinking of starting up the whole suite on my machine, then slowly expose to internet the parts I find useful (and shut down the parts I don’t). But I really can’t find any good…tutorial(?) on how to quickly get the whole stack running, and I’m a bit worried about launching individual apps since I don’t know if/how they communicate with each other. So I’ll try to summarize my, quite naïve, questions here:
- how exactly do I set up a quick stack? Is that possible? And more importantly, is that recommended?
- most of the tutorials/stacks I see online use plex for video streaming, but seeing a lot of negativity around plex and its pricing, I reckon using jellyfin would be better. Does it just plug into the ecosystem as easily as plex apparently does?
- I’ve already set up a hack-ish navidrome instance to stream music, but managing files is a real hassle with it. Does sonarr(?) do it any better?
I know most of these questions can be easily answered through some LLM (which I don’t wanna rely on) or scouring documentation (which honestly look a bit daunting from my point right now), so I figured it’d be best to ask here. Thanks for any help!
I’m just using a bunch of independent docker containers behind nginx. But this now sounds a lot easier than I had in mind since a few apps I deployed were painful in the rear end when setting up correct folders. As for usenet, I’d have the same question as the other reply - in my mind it’s an archaic (lol) network protocol which I have not the slightest idea about
Reason I asked about Synology was because there’s a good guide here for the arr deployment. I adapted it for my ugreen nas. Might be able to find parallels with whatever set up you’ve got going on.
Usenet is archaic, but therein lies the protection. It’s a straight download of desperate files that a program you run puts together. Safer than torrent, but your options may be more limited.
Hah that makes a lot more sense. For now I think I’ll stick with the independent containers approach, I have zero familiarity with synology so I better take it one at a time. But usenet sounds pretty interesting now, might give it a look just for the kicks haha