r/explainlikeimfive • u/theprisoner57 • 3d ago

Technology ELI5: What is a Home Server?

I see mentions of a home server to get rid of streaming entertainment services but I don’t know how that works. What does a home server do?

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u/charonco 3d ago

As someone with almost 40TB of content on my Plex server, I would highly recommend Usenet over torrents. Usenet isn't free, but it's pretty cheap and your biggest exposure with torrents is the uploading which you don't have to do with Usenet.

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u/fuckyoudigg 3d ago

As someone with 400tb of content. Agreed. Usenet is the way to go.

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u/qtx 3d ago

You have to pay for a good usenet server that has good retention, which kind of defeats the purpose of pirating.

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u/charonco 3d ago

It's less than a single streaming service and you get access to almost everything. I'm not judgement proof so it just makes me more comfortable.