I agree it took many months to figure out my arr stack and the configuration with API keys and server ip addresses. I used countless resources and guides and it didn’t help. Now I can do a fresh install of jellyfin and the arr stack in less than an hour after finally figuring it out but wow was it a hard learning curve. I have paper notes trying to decode which tools does what I was so confused

Yeah it was honestly changing the router settings that was the hardest part for me, exposing port 22 and 80. Caddy was really easy to use

Have you looked into the Trash guides? And Linuxserver.io there’s a handful of helpful guides for anything you could want to build on a computer server. There’s a lot of tips on Docker configurations too. Hope this helps you and OP

I think the greatest advantage of this is to probably watch a few episodes of show before committing to downloading it especially long series or quick movies. Does everyone in the world need backups of movies and TV shows? I know seeding is an important factor to passing media along but it also feels like hoarding and I’m not a hoarder. It feels like a fine line to cross

I found a site called diskprices.com and found reasonable priced per tb value hard drives

Oh? I’ve never heard of this. I see there git page here and I installed it easy on my android phone and the add-on torrentio. It there a like docker image or can I host this. I used my server to provide streams to friends and family but this seems to all in one solution I could forward them the link and have a set up guide on my domain now.

Yeah I use jellyseerr with jellyfin and they work great together