Started with the no brainer tailscale, had all the services setup but major caveat was with the bandwidth max got around 1mb/s , with server : 200mb/s <–> local : 50mb/s

Started in 2020 with trueNAS for media access , the times when I was amazed with accessing media on network, discovering smb ftp protocols existence, then slowly grinding on truenas.

Then travel made another requirement for raspberry pi having dietPi-OS setup with ease of install, trying PiMox on a 4g ram with great bottlenecks.

I love self hosting , it gives me some pseudo mental power by having that feel of digital and self sovereignty.

Origination

It was 2020 around when isp’s around my area didn’t have any CGNAT and had a nice public ip, I went to my routers UI : Set up the port forwarding by looking at reddit resources and through blogs for how to setup one.

Got the jellyfin server behind the public ip with port, when accessed it from another location, was able to access it , speed was fine too.

Having a server at home that provides you with smb and other stuff : Great but when moving to another location, not having that facility hurts and makes a major requirement to be fulfilled.

Got a raspberry pi 4 from from a person as a second hand device, as it was 2022 and getting a new one was quite hard to find so found one in another city.

Started looking for arm options that can provide me with nas like features on the network.

My daily job involves designing and editing files using Adobe after effects, photoshop, figma etc.

Started looking into NAS options for easier access for my data storage.

Figured that smb is mostly used in order to store and retrieve for the same for most of the machines, my current daily drive is windows so would be using that.

The major problem is reconnecting hdd again n again as I don’t have a laptop right now which is a major pain when getting off the desk and taking the laptop with you.

Objective : Radarr + Sonarr + Jellyfin + qbittorrent (Indexer fetch) Indexer : Prowlarr