With everything happening with Netflix and Max it’s time to cut bait.

I was looking at renting a seedbox for torrents. I have a pretty old Synology I use for local streaming but it’s too old to run Plex or even vpn properly without mucking about at the os layer.

How do people get stuff off their seedbox? Do they just manually download stuff when it’s done downloading? Do they stream directly, as some appear to support jellyfin and Plex? Do they use rsync or something to automate transfers?

    • adthrawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I second this. I have unraid setup now and just seed from my local machine, but when I used a seedbox I had sonarr and radarr folders set to sync locally to my machine, then hard link the miles. After it’s “moved” into the plex folders, sonarr and radarr move the download to another category in qbit where it just sits and seeds

  • theUnlikely@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    While certainly possible to set one up by yourself, such as with Saltbox, I’ve been using Ultra.cc for a couple years now and it’s been great. If you want to stream, make sure you pick a plan that supports it. Otherwise you can use Syncthing, rclone, FTP, etc.

  • SaltySalamander@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I always streamed directly. Mounted the download folder with ssh using the windows app sftp net drive. If I still paid for a seedvox tho, I’d just use plex.

  • Toutourien@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d buy a cheap used PC and run a local instance of Plex/jellyfin with all the *arr.

  • huojtkeg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have mine self-hosted with *arr + Deluge + vpn + Jellyfin. If you don’t need transcoding it works well for streaming. The storage costs is the main reason I don’t have a VPS/seedbox.

  • mookEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I used ultraseedbox for the past few years to host a Plex server and build a ratio on private trackers. Recently just got a VPN - so with my syno 920+ and awesome ratios I just don’t need a seedbox for a good long time.