Looks like we have a few subscribers to this community so I figured Id make a “poll” of sorts. Are most people already rocking the servarr stack or do we have anyone who is here to learn? If you already have a stack, whats your setup? Ill go first.

Im currently running my homelab on consumer hardware, just an old gaming PC I had. i7-4790k with 32gb of ddr3 ram and a gtx 1060. Im running truenas Scale on it, and I moved from ubuntu server. Ive got the whole *arr stack running except for whisparr along with a bunch of other self host programs like vault warden and audiobookshelf.

  • JC1@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I have a Dell R730XD with 128Gb RAM and a 49TB array. It’s way overkill for my needs, but I have fun with a lot of docker containers running on Unraid. I can also host a few web apps for my own needs. The Unraid docker GUI became way too slow to use, so now I manage everything through Portainer and modified everything to use stacks and docker compose. It’s much easier to manage now.

  • surrendertogravity@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Pretty new to self-hosting type stuff, so I went with a Synology NAS when building my setup this spring. Got a DS923+ and two Seagate 12 TB IronWolf drives, and for overkill, added an extra 4 GB of RAM (for a total of 8). There was a lot of fuss on the Reddit threads I browsed about the later Synologys being bad for Plex, but that wasn’t really a concern for me since I have Plex on an Nvidia Shield.

    I’ve got Sonarr / Radarr, with Bazarr for subs, Prowlarr for torrent index management, and Overseerr for day-to-day interaction with the stack. Using Portainer to manage all my docker containers, and Watchtower for auto-updating most of them. Downloads are through qBittorrent with gluetun for VPN. I was using Mullvad with port forwarding but now that’s going away, I’m probably going to switch over to Proton VPN. Not really looking forward to doing that reconfiguration.

    I wasn’t quite sure this was all worth the effort until everything lined up and I started submitting downloads through Overseer - it’s SO nice to send movies or tv shows to be downloaded through a snazzy UI.

    Future plans include setting up a self-hosted photo library browser, and some kind of self-hosted music setup, though most of my downloads are from Soulseek and nothing *Arr really supports that as a source last I looked into it.

    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lidarr-extended might allow soulseek as a source? I know it allows deemix. There’s a few really good photo libraries as well. I just always used usenet or private trackers so Ive never fussed with vpns on my self host but I probably should since of some laws going into effect here.

      • surrendertogravity@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think the issue is just that there’s not a fully-featured Soulseek Docker client that talks to the Lidarr API. I’m keeping an eye on slskd as it’s in somewhat-active development, but I’ll check out deemix as I haven’t heard of it before!

  • gloss@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’d never heard of *arr stuff before seeing thie community and am here to learn! I’ve dabbled in jellyfin before but nothing currently due to hardware issues.