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?

  • theUnlikelyEnglish
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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.

  • 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.