Hey all, more question time. What was the “push” that made you set up your servarr instance? For me, my wife is from a different country than I am. We both paid for netflix but due to region lock could never watch anything together without piracy. I realized very quickly that it was a worthless endevour to keep going with the dance so I just figured fuck it, Ill go all in.
Usability. I have no problem paying for content (my server + expenses would probably pay for a lifetime of various subscriptions), but having it consolidated in one location is a lifestyle improvement.
I was doing everything manually and it was just too much work. I’m talking manually renaming files and everything. I very slowly learned to use the arr’s and life has been much easier lol. Huge thanks to all the YouTube guides because I was absolutely clueless when I started out
I originally set up Sonarr+Radarr just to do file naming and management on my local ripped content as an alternative to filebot and similar programs.
It snowballed from there, now I have a server rack in my garage, a usenet subscription and gigabit internet.
For me it was the cabletv-like insanity of streaming services, especially when content started moving - imagine starting to watch a show only for it to disappear when you’re halfway through and show up two weeks later on a different service, for which now you have to pay extra to continue watching!
I’ve had enough of that and geolocking, so I decided to take control of things.
My server isn’t as big as others’, but I can still host nearly 30TB of content on a 10Gb link, which is more than enough for my home usage.
I used to manage my files manually. Once Netflix decided to cancel most of the series I liked and raise the price at the same time as most compagnies removed their content from there to start their own streaming services, I decided that I should manage my own stuff, so I looked at ways to automate everything to make it simpler.
Now I have a beefy setup that I like and is more reliable than having to find which service offer what and having to juggle subscriptions. It’s not even about money, it’s about ease of use and accessibility.