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.
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.
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.
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!
Does protonVPN have port forwarding? I thought the only other VPN that still has it is AirVPN.
Yes, and integrated with their Windows app smoothly, but from what I’ve been reading it’s a bit more complicated to integrate with Docker / Linux / *Arr apps.
I’m planning to use this Docker container that integrates with Gluetun and qBit to make Proton’s port forwarding via Wireguard work. …and I just realized that 07/01 is approaching really quickly so I guess that’s my weekend project next week!
Edit: from what I was reading, IVPN and TorGuard also offer port forwarding, and TorGuard apparently also works with the container linked above.
I’m using the container you linked for handling the port forwarding for protonvpn and qbit. It works quite well. Just remember that to get port forwarding over openvpn on proton you have to add +pmp to the end of your assigned openvpn username
Great to hear about it working well! Curious, is there a particular reason to choose openvpn vs wireguard here?
I really couldn’t do better justice than this