Quickly read through the writeup, excellent work. I’ve been meaning to do something similar to this but haven’t been able to properly commit the time to do the research required to make it all play nice.

I’ll be doing this sometime soon 👍

It’s the type of crowd that self hosting brings. We’re very much more Lemmings than Redditors by trade, so it does make sense the community here is better.

That, and fuck reddit.

If anybody uses this in prod from a git repo, might want to place your database creds in an .env file adjacent to your compose file then gitignore the .env.

Referenced like so:

.env contents

MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=MyExamplePassword

MYSQL_ROOT_USER=MyExampleUser

docker-compose.yml contents:

MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}

MYSQL_ROOT_USER: ${MYSQL_ROOT_USER}

Don’t commit secrets to git!

Damn mobile formatting.

Sensible consumer. Why weren’t there more of you when I was working retail?

Their post history is… Something else.

So uh. Just wanna get your input here.

What single detail stands out to you as “liberal” here?

I’m sure I’ll be fascinated by your answer.

I’ll just leave this here

https://grayjay.app/

Huh good to know thanks!

Maybe it’s ignorance on my part, but my office and the router in the house aren’t on the same circuit.

Or, at least they have different sections in the breaker.

House is brand new, put up in 2021

You can TRY power line adapters:

TP-Link AV2000 Powerline Adapter https://a.co/d/0fa6e3f3

Their application can be hit or miss, but mine have been perfect. Had them just under 2 years. Able to get full bandwidth and no discernable latency addition

Honestly the single biggest thing to self-hosting is breaking stuff.

Host stuff that seems interesting to you, and dick around with it. If it breaks, read the logs and try to fix. If you can’t, revert to a backup and try to reproduce.

If you start out with things that interest you, you’ll more likely stick with the hobby. From there you can move to hosting things with external access - maybe vpn inside your own network through your router?

From there, get your security in line and host a basic webserver. Something small, low attack vector, and build on it. Then expand!

Definitely recommend docker to start with - specifically docker compose. Read the documentation and mess around!

First container I would host is portainer. General web admin/management panel for containers.

Good luck :).

… I blame the kid’s sleep regression and my lack thereof.

I’ll give this a shot, thanks!

Honestly I’m not super concerned about the contents being public.

As far as a forum/wiki, I’d like it to look like it was meant for this job, those would be a little more on the hefty side just for posting some images/text to.

I would build it myself but I’ve got a 4 month old. Not a ton of time to sit down in React.

This is close, but I’d like to be able to manually add text to each review (for my benefit really) and general x/y star reviews for them.

Also it really wouldn’t need Auth - I’d be the only one actually editing the pages.

Looks like Syteline to me lol.

This is oddly similar to some informal workups I’ve done for our work network.

Nice work 👍.

This is the way.

Don’t buy for the MINIMUM of what you need now. Give yourself some room to grow.

I honestly can’t tell if you’re trolling.

Also, “limiting their consumption to the occasional worthwhile thing” can also be written as:

“spend their well-earned time actually watching something worth the investment”

And “they might even assuage their guilt by paying for it…” as:

“if they find content they enjoy, they’d like to show that monetarily and hopefully boost the production of more content of that same caliber”

Yes and no. They do have some connections to NZB, but primarily used for torrents.

Search on sonarr for TV > add series to sonarr > search for series by episode or season > sonarr asks prowlarr (or jackett) to search torrent providers > find and add episode or season > prowlarr finds torrent and sends to sonarr > sonarr sends torrent to your torrent client to download (I use qbittorrent) > done.

If setup correctly, once the download is finished, sonarr will copy the series to your media server folder so it’s accessible from plex/jellyfin/emby/what have you.

It does leave the initial files in the torrent software for seeding purposes. I’m sure there is a setting in there somewhere to disable that, but always seed!

The search can be entirely automated too. Handful of apps integrate with sonarr/radarr so you can have your server users request shows and sonarr would find them and add them automatically for you.

You can also specify release type in quality and specifically if it’s a rip or HDTV recording, assuming the provider reports that which most do.

Lastly, you can specify by size ranges. It takes a good while to find something you like, but to keep your server from filling up, you can limit the max size for a single episode or movie (in radarr).

My only real complaint is the automated search in sonarr is by episode so you can get a mixed back of quality that way. You can manually search for an entire season. It can’t correctly deal with a full series release on its own so some manual work would be needed there.

It’s effort for sure, but worth it.

Sys admin here.

Hosting on-prem email at work took years off my life. Going to work on the other and report back