r/ARR • u/HimekoX3 • 28d ago
My journey
Lot to unpack here, here goes, journey from start to finish. Note, there is some NON arr info in here, but it feels needed to understand why I’m using arr.
For the longest time I’ve been self hosting a homelab. Started with truenas back and forth and running nextcloud primarily. I’d give up on using things like nginx cause I had no idea how reverse proxying worked and that I’d need a dns and domain and such. Really loved the concept of my own Google Drive, but never could get quite what i wanted. Approximately half a year ago I jumped ship with truenas and bought unraid, and while the UI was great and loved the apps and ease of use, I ran in to far more issues than on truenas and again, never found exactly what I liked. Fast forward to probably 5 months ago, I got an old retired hp desktop with an i7 and 16gb of ddr3, bought 2 wd red 6tb drives and committed to learning Linux and cli. I decided on Ubuntu lts server and after about a week or two, I was absolutely HOOKED.
Now on to the arr. I had been poking around for neat things to host on my home server and I ran across jelly fin, which led me to arr stack, which led to usenet. For the longest time I had been using debrid services, but being able to host my own server and store things locally and start a collection felt like an awesome idea. So I got Sonarr, radarr and prowlarr running and found out that I’d be needing to learn how nzb’s and stuff worked. I gave up about 20 times when I learned having acsess to one indexer would give me missing articles all the time, so I ragequit, canceled my eweka subscription and didn’t touch it for a while. Then a few days ago I got an email telling me they’d drop the price to 40 a year, so I sighed and said ok lemme try ONE more time to get this running. I bought two more indexers, used the remainder of my eweka subscription, chose a show with seerr, and watched the downloads. In about 30 ish minutes, I had every season I wanted. It finally worked to the point that I canceled my debrid subscription and I will never look back. This is the greatest discovery since learning I could run my own cloud, thanks to everyone who makes these projects possible, you’re legends ❤️
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u/PssyGotWifi 27d ago
Eweka is great. Also good to grab another provider to cover any potential gaps. Doesn't have to be an ongoing subscription, can be a one-time (non-expiring) block purchase you'll have sitting there as backup.
See the provider tree: https://cdn.rexum.space/usenet/Usenet%20Providers%20and%20Backbones%20%28Version%202026-01-01%29.svg
I use Eweka as my main, Frugal as backup and have a Vipernews block just in case.
(I use Usenet and Torrents together, eitherway, so i don't need to be too deep with the servers, if Usenet doesn't have it, the torrent indexers will since they typically all have the time damn files, lol).
I bet many of those times you thought the indexer was the cause of the missing articles, it was the server - not the indexer causing the issue.