Build and take control of your digital library. DIYMediaServer is your go-to resource for building, configuring, and maintaining open-source home media servers with Jellyfin, Usenet, Docker, and Proxmox. Get step-by-step guides, performance tips, and automation tutorials built for self-hosters.
If you’ve been adjusting your indexers and/or downloaders across Sonarr, Radarr, Readarr, and/or Lidarr by hand, you know it’s repetitive, it’s messy, and it's tedious. Prowlarr allows you to manages your ARR suite in one place.
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If you’re diving into the world of Usenet, you’ll learn of SABnzbd existence immediately and for good reason. While tools like Radarr and Sonarr handle the _what_ and _when_ part of downloading, SABnzbd takes care of the _how_. SABnzbd is the download engine that grabs NZB files from your indexer, handles repairs and unpacking, and drops the final product into your media library.
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You purchased a new multi-terabyte drive for your media server and are ready to slap it into service. But hold up, before you run fdisk like it’s 1999, it’s worth knowing it is no longer the right tool for the job. If your drive is over 2TB you need to use GPT instead of MBR. fdisk cannot create GPT partitions, so parted is the way to go.
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You don’t need RGB LEDs and tempered glass side panels to build a good home server. You need airflow. You need drive bays. And most of all, you need peace of mind. Let’s be honest, most PC cases aren’t built for this. They’re built for looks, not longevity. If you're stacking hard drives and chasing silence, the case matters more than you think.
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If you are like me and love watching movies. However, keeping them organized and up to date can feel like a full-time job. Between release dates, varying quality options, and sources scattered across the internet, managing your movie library can quickly become a frustrating mess.
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Every professional and/or weekend warrior sysadmin has that one issue that haunts them. For me, this week, it was a weird NFS crash loop that kicked in like clockwork. Every 24 hours, like it was on a timer (it was, my backups were running). The server booted, NFS shares mounted fine, and media apps ran smoothly. Looked solid. Then... boom. NFS would stop responding. Containers started throwing stale file handle errors and memory usage shot through the roof.
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