I went with rsync.net, grabbed a promo at some point and have been getting 1.6TB for $10/mo. They support a wide range of protocols (sshfs, sftp, rsync, borg, synology, guides for freenas and truenas), snapshots, idle alerts, geo redundancy for a fee. Been very happy with it so far. Had to retrieve some files once and had no issue.

Doesn’t this need an AI disclosure in the title and post per the rules of this community?

Honestly I like the idea of your project but the writing style of your post is very grating.

Ah cool, the docs made it sound like container: uses the container ID hash instead of the name so I wasn’t sure how that works. I just put stuff like this in the same compose file since they’re all closely related.

If it helps, here’s how I had my gluetun / transmission set up with mullvad (I’ve since moved to proton for port forwarding but I saved the mullvad config in case I needed to switch back):

services:
  gluetun:
    image: qmcgaw/gluetun:v3
    container_name: gluetun
    restart: always
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    devices:
      - /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun
    volumes:
      - ./volumes/gluetun:/gluetun
    environment:
      - TZ=America/New_York
#      Mullvad
      - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=mullvad
      - VPN_TYPE=wireguard
      - SERVER_COUNTRIES=USA
      - SERVER_CITIES=New York NY
      - WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY=
      - WIREGUARD_ADDRESSES=x.x.x.x/32
      - UPDATER_PERIOD=24h
      - UPDATER_MIN_RATIO=0.1
      - UPDATER_VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDERS=mullvad,privado,protonvpn
    networks:
      - default
      - ingress

  transmission:
    image: linuxserver/transmission:latest
    container_name: transmission
    restart: always
    network_mode: "service:gluetun"
    environment:
      - PUID=0
      - PGID=0
      - TZ=America/New_York
    volumes:
      - ./volumes/transmission:/config
      - /volume1/Media:/media

  flood:
    image: jesec/flood:latest
    container_name: flood-sidecar
    restart: always
    command: --port 3000
    user: "0:0"
    network_mode: "service:gluetun"
    volumes:
      - ./volumes/transmission:/config
      - /volume1/Media:/media:ro
    environment:
      - TZ=America/New_York
      - HOME=/config
    labels:
      - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.flood.rule=Host(`flood.example.com`)"
      - "traefik.http.services.flood.loadbalancer.server.port=3000"
      - "traefik.http.routers.flood.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.routers.flood.tls.certresolver=mytlschallenge"
      # This example uses "Selective Authentication"
      - "traefik.http.routers.flood.middlewares=oauth-middleware"

Idk how zimaos works, but the way to attach containers like this is with network_mode: "service:othercontainer" which might need them to be in the same compose file (the docs aren’t clear).

Also note that you can’t put any port mappings on a container using network_mode service, you have to put them on the other container that is handling networking since the first container is piggybacking off of the other and doesn’t have its own networking.

It sounds like it’s just not worth it for you, and that’s totally fine! Plenty of people get by just fine with using random streaming sites.

Personally, I want something more reliable, I want to have copies of what I watch in my possession that cannot be taken down, and I want to share this with others so that my friends can benefit from my time investment instead of using a solution that only works for me. So that if my friends ask me “where do you get your stuff” I can offer to share with them at 0 extra effort instead of telling them “go do all these things that I already did”

As for usage, I only watch a few hours a week myself, but I share with 15-20 friends and family who watch a collective 160 hours a month last year and around 360 hours a month this year (about 15 days of watch time per month).

I have a fairly comprehensive arrstack, torrents and Usenet, seerr, Plex and jellyfin side by side with identical media mounts for maximum user choice, running on a nuc with quicksync so it handles 8+ simultaneous 1080p live transcodes without using much power or increasing CPU usage much more than 5-10%.

They also forgot to change r/selfhosted from when they posted it to reddit… https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ter9n9/refearnapp_opensource_selfhosted_affiliate/

As well as: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1sk4oqw/refearnapp_selfhosted_opensource_affiliate/

Here’s their answers to “Expand the replies to this comment to learn how AI was used in this post/project”:

it is written by ai i give the idea then ai writes that

this post is written by ai. i only give it thought on what idea it should post and it generated everything.

Their post history contains a mixture of comments with grammar like the above as well as many comments with excellent grammar, often containing em dashes. It seems like they only post on Reddit using AI comments to karma farm so they can spam AI generated posts like this to try to get some people to pay for their hosting subscription for their vibe coded app.

I think you should make it clearer in this post that you are selling hosting services for this. It feels like this is self promotion but without transparency otherwise.

Idk about giving a comprehensive answer, but getting full marks on the nextcloud security scanner is a good start: https://scan.nextcloud.com/

I check mine periodically and make sure I’m on the latest version, use 2fa (passkey) and hope that does the trick.

Also there’s a plugin for brute force protection.

I mostly just use the Synology files app or samba over wireguard, and then sync a couple tb of super critical stuff to rsync.net. I have next cloud set up but all I use it for is editing my cook book from multiple devices and storing the few documents I migrated off of gdrive, but I might as well just have them in a regular folder on my nas instead.

I also would want to pick the quality/size of the file depending on the show (good shows deserve better quality).

I do this too and that was a major hesitation in switching to use arrstack. What I do is each library (movies, TV) has an organized folder (Archive) and a folder for arrstack (Active). I have both added to arrstack and Plex/jellyfin but I only let it download automatically to the arr folder. Every week or two I check what people have requested and downloaded into the arr folder and either move it to the archive since I’m happy with the quality / release group, or I use arr’s ui to pick a different release with a single click.

It’s nice because I get the best of both worlds, hands free downloading for 10-15 people, new episodes daily, but I also get to screen and control what goes into my archive and upgrade important shows before I lose track of it.

Makes sense. I share my media library with 10-15 friends so there’s usually a few streams late at night, and scrubs, container updates, and backups run early morning at like 2-4am.

I got a few on my laptop but none on either of my long running homelab boxes (70-80 days uptime). On my laptop they all seem related to espeak, the tts program. Is there any pattern in what processes yours are from?

Ah I see, I thought your criticism was that I was repeating someone else who had already referenced Clark and Dawe in this thread. My mistake. If you just don’t like when people reference or repeat commonly known jokes, then you’re free to your opinion. I don’t think there’s really any point in discussing it though, since your issue is predicated on an opinion we don’t share.

In my defense, I did check if any of the other replies had specifically referenced Clarke and Dawe before I made my comment, and unless federation delay is in play, I don’t think I repeated anyone else’s reference to the same.

The front just fell off

My *arrstack DBs are part of my backed up portion, so they’ll remember what I have downloaded in my non-backed up portion.

Same here, ~30TB currently but my personal artifacts portion is only like 2TB, which is very affordable with rsync.net, which conveniently has an alerts setting if more than X kb hasn’t changed in Y days. (I have my Synology set up to spit out daily security reports to meet that amount, so even if I don’t change anything myself I won’t get bugged)

The most notable difference is that meshtastic has range in the order of miles. At least 1 mile even with bad antennas but with other nodes nearby to repeat your messages, 20 miles is not hard to do.

Are you using sonarr/radarr to do your renaming? I have mine set to patterns that put the release group at the end. It usually has no problem picking up release groups at the beginning (especially for anime, that seems to be pretty common), so by the time it’s auto imported, the filenames have been normalized to standard format with release group at the end.