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.
Well… Thats a beast.
Proxmox. Run multiple VMs. 2 VMs for ubuntu server, run all your containers through that, perhaps kubernetes? This way if your containers go down, they just switch over. Super nice.
Than with all the extra resources… I mean, home lab for fun. Spin up windows server. Diff Linux distro. Learn arch, etc.