Oct 8, 2025 · 5 min read · When you self-host your media stack (Sonarr, Radarr, Jellyfin, etc.) on a VPS, you’re primarily working in a CLI environment — without a GUI or Docker Desktop dashboards. Monitoring containers can become tedious. This is where Portainer proves invalu...
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Oct 7, 2025 · 4 min read · In my previous posts, we explored the journey of creating a private streaming environment and securing torrenting workflows using a VPS, VPN, and smart automation (part 1, part 2). Now, it’s time to move beyond theory and dive into the real deploymen...
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Jul 8, 2025 · 4 min read · It all started with a simple need — I wanted to watch some old movies and personal family videos stored on my desktop. My niece had also backed up a bunch of vacation clips from her phone onto my machine, and now that she’s back home, I needed an eas...
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Jun 16, 2025 · 10 min read · Introduction I started this project because I needed more control over how I store and consume media on my computer. 🔗 View on GitHub I often ran out of storage space on my laptop, and using third-party cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive ...
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Jul 7, 2024 · 5 min read · In this article, we will be exploring the following services Immich for image server Jellyfin for media hosting I use these two on a daily basis. You can explore other self-hosted services in https://selfh.st/ Since we have already discussed reve...
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Mar 3, 2024 · 6 min read · Back at the end of January, I was devouring Cory Doctorow’s latest audiobook: The Lost Cause. I was energized by the ideas and couldn't stop telling my girlfriend about them. She had enough and was ready to give it a listen herself. Normally, I’d jus...
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Feb 18, 2024 · 2 min read · In a world dominated by subscription-based streaming services, Jellyfin emerges as a liberating force, offering users the ability to curate their own media universe. No longer tethered to the catalogs, Jellyfin empowers individuals to create a person...
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Aug 7, 2023 · 4 min read · Setting Up Jellyfin Media Server in a Proxmox Container Welcome to our comprehensive guide, where we will show you how to effortlessly set up Jellyfin, the feature-rich open-source media server, within a Proxmox container. With our user-friendly inst...
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Jun 8, 2023 · 2 min read · Jellyfin is a free and open-source media server that allows you to manage and stream all your media files from any device. It is an open-source alternative to the Plex media server. Let's see how can we setup this media server in docker. Requirements...
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Mar 18, 2023 · 2 min read · This isn't meant to be a technical article but rather a narration about my experience hosting my music server on a raspberry pi 4. It started when I was given a CanaKit Raspberry 4B kit. This kit comes with the following items: 1. Raspberry 4B - 1.5G...
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