Qbittorrent is the best
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What is a torrent server? Do you mean running your own torrent tracker?
I have no idea, I just threw that in there because I thought someone would have seflhosting ideas I hadn't thought of.
Youre looking for a torrent client with a web interface then. As others have already recommended, qbittorrent, deluge, transmission etc are popular options. You could also simply have used the search function or look at the subreddit sidebar to find the awesome-selfhosted list of a lot of selfhosted software projects.
Here's an introduction into torrenting by RED: https://interviewfor.red/en/torrenting.html
qBittorrent is the preferred client nowadays. It also has a WebUI, not very mobile friendly though..
Uh... Ppl are typically running QBitTorrent or deluge, I like qbittorrent but it doesn't matter. I use a image with a VPN included, but you can run a VPN separately too. Whatever you get working really.
Than you typically run a index manager like jackettt or prowlarr, prowlarr seems to be the most popular these days.
Than you run a few programs, radar, sonarr, reader, there is 1 for music as well, this actually uses the indexer to pull the torrents and put them on your torrent client.
Then you run a media request app, overseer or jellyseerr, probably jelly these days. Which allows you to search and request whatever media you want, which prompts the arts to do there thing, which prompts torrent app to do it's thing.
Then lastly, you run a media server, like Plex, Jelly, Kodi, or Emby. Whichever you prefer...
If everything runs smoothly, you go to seerr, request media, than a little while later it's on your media server.
You can add a few things, like ntfy to get notifications when your files are downloaded, or server is updated with the latest file. You can add a VPN to get access to your apps outside of network. Or a wire guard tunnels, to get in, or simply host on a domain.
Thanks for the detailed reply. Years ago I used DuckieTV and Kodi, so what you're suggesting is similar, but why do I need an index manager? What role does it serve?
You connect your torrent trackers to prowlarr as well as your download clients. Prowlarr automatically adds these things to the rest of the arrs, this way you have a single place to edit and manage your trackers.
I just use hotio suite which has been great, I run bazarr, prowlarr, qbitmanage, qbittorrent, radarr, sonarr, sabnzbd, and unpackerr on an old asustor nas.
Looking at Hotio, can you easily install those containers listed as an extension through the program, or do you still need to manually install and connect each one to Hotio?
They install just like any other container.
time to read up ! https://trash-guides.info/ :>
I strongly recommend to use docker compose - believe me it's much better experience
I'm running transmission in daemon mode with the web gui enabled. There is "transmission-remote" on app stores to connect to it from your moble device. You should be able to continue using it with the *arr stack later as well.
Remember to get yourself a VPN subscription and check out gluetun to keep your connection private
I'm actually a big fan of rtorrent/rutorrent... https://github.com/crazy-max/docker-rtorrent-rutorrent