im a firm believer in task appropriate stuff… 24/7 server apps should be on a dedicated server box… network storage should only perform storage tasks. i wouldnt use a primary workstation also as server cuz i want to do crazy shit on my workstation. i wouldnt ever want to interfere with my ‘production’ stuff on the server.

ive been quite happy running a headless server and various nas boxes for storage redundancy… my home related i.t. tasks are very minimal now that everything is solidly automated.

oh you sweet summer child

i feel this… i donate time to senior citizens, and its mostly mint upgrades from windows as they do not want to have to update their windows machines.

its very easy. they know many of their users are not experts.

ive been through many of these upgrades and have a dozen or so machines runnin mint… upgrading has never gone sideways on me. its one of the benefits of mint. their upgrade processes are very well tested.

nope, i’ve not had any issues with ports, but im using deluge.

the container network management handles most of that nonsense, the vpn is treated as a native internet connection

I prefer containers…

theres one available called gluetun that can run proton vpn…

then I have a deluge (torrent client) running in another container that specifies gluetun as it’s network source.

this way if the VPN drops I don’t bleed my actual ip

these containers are pre-built and public so config is fairly minimal

bless your heart. i bet youve learned a lot!

i found containers helpful… it was simple to spin up a VPN container (gluetun), and push through any services/access/other containers (like pihole) through that. i really appreciated this because if the vpn goes down i’m not suddenly leaking my ip.

what kinda storage ya runnin?

if its a spinning rust drive, it could be failing. ive seen behavior like this after a big data change (like an OS install) on a drive thats on its way out. its spinning its wheels re-reading data.

prolly not the issue if its an SSD

decentralized cloud storage

isnt that kind of an oxymoron?

i manage all files and metadata outside of jellyfin/kodi using mediaelch… it scrapes, renames and sets up all the local metadata files for ingestion perfectly into both my media services.

i dont get this… im technically still usin emby, but user management is beyond simple and requirs no upkeep. no one has asked me to reset their passwords and ive got a few dozen people usin my instance.

coool, thank you!

very simple

//library/Movies/$movie_title //library/Series/%Series_title/%series_season

that sounds easy enough, i’ll give it a try. i heard transmission was on the outs though…

id prolly be happy with it at the series level even, not necessarily the seasons… but one torrent seems like a pain to create… thousands seems arduous. without a lot of scripting that is. i’m checkin out retroshare also, thanks!

im at ~36000 episodes and ~2800 movies in a hierarchical library primarily used for kodi and jellyfin. each series/movie is in its own folder… season of series are in their own folders… all have xml data regarding each file, created by mediaelch.

i already have a deluge container running over a vpn container so upload/download shouldnt be an issue… except i get a different ext address on the tunnel when i reconnect every once in awhile.

it just feels stupid i have this beautiful thing i cant share with the world without a mess of scripting

this sounds promising. ive already got a vpn container (gluetun) to proton.

the xml is just the media data usually ingested by kodi/jellyfin. its all already well structured in files and folders.

ill prolly start looking into a script i can use to generate the torrents and feed into my deluge container, but you have proven my point.

its not ‘easy’ to create and seed a library of files.