Yeah, you can integrate torrents into the stack, afaik. But due to some technical considerations I don’t like to run a VPN on my media server, and in my country you definitely need one for torrents.
Getting into the weeds a bit here lol. I do use a VPN on my personal PC, but on the media server where I have my *arr stack, I’ve found that using a VPN, even with split tunneling configured, allows certain TV websites to detect I’m using a VPN and block streaming content. If I wasn’t using a DNS proxy, or if I ran the stack on a separate server, it probably wouldn’t be an issue, but I’m not so it is :p. I’ll add that if I am using only Usenet then I prefer not to run a VPN since it’s reasonably safe IMO to raw dog that content, since a VPN always has some overhead involved in terms of bandwidth and latency.
Why not just run the torrenting stack behind the VPN in a separate docker container? Then the rest of your media server is completely unaffected by the VPN and no need for any split tunneling.
That’s a good suggestion, I just haven’t had the motivation to get that setup yet since Usenet currently meets my needs. But I’m sure it would work, yes.
Yeah, you can integrate torrents into the stack, afaik. But due to some technical considerations I don’t like to run a VPN on my media server, and in my country you definitely need one for torrents.
What’s the reasons against using a VPN here?
Getting into the weeds a bit here lol. I do use a VPN on my personal PC, but on the media server where I have my *arr stack, I’ve found that using a VPN, even with split tunneling configured, allows certain TV websites to detect I’m using a VPN and block streaming content. If I wasn’t using a DNS proxy, or if I ran the stack on a separate server, it probably wouldn’t be an issue, but I’m not so it is :p. I’ll add that if I am using only Usenet then I prefer not to run a VPN since it’s reasonably safe IMO to raw dog that content, since a VPN always has some overhead involved in terms of bandwidth and latency.
Why not just run the torrenting stack behind the VPN in a separate docker container? Then the rest of your media server is completely unaffected by the VPN and no need for any split tunneling.
That’s a good suggestion, I just haven’t had the motivation to get that setup yet since Usenet currently meets my needs. But I’m sure it would work, yes.
Gluetun works great for this. It’s a VPN docker container that you can route other containers’ network connections through. Super lightweight and fast
Idk if you tried this, but I run all my stuff on docker and put specific things through gluetun (arrs and qbit).