The original post: /r/piracy by /u/Polyphemos88 on 2024-11-20 13:41:26.

I have a Plex server running on an old gaming PC with some large HDDs, running Win10.

I’m running qbt and Mulvad VPN and recently learned about Radarr and Sonarr.

I’d like to improve the setup on my seedbox.

What do I need to do in terms of privacy? Can Mulvad work? Should I use another VPN? Should I place some form of VPN between my ISP modem and my router for the entire house?

What steps can be taken to ensure privacy from my ISP and others as to any remote access to my Plex server?

On a third note, I’d like my plex server to be available when I’m running qbt. Currently, it all goes on the VPN together, and Plex becomes unavailable - I have to shut down qbt and the VPN to watch something.

One option I’m considering is to get a small mini PC connected to a NAS to run the Plex server. I guess alternatively I could get around this either by configuring the VPN to treat qbt and Plex differently or by setting up VMs to run these separately on the old box.

I’ve never done any of these things before and I have no experience with Linux, but I believe I’m tech savvy enough to figure it out with the proper guidance.

I have learned some words and concepts in the past few days, but I’m still figuring out what everything is and what permutation of solutions I need. I’ve half conceptualized a mini PC with sufficient CPU and NAS to run unRAID for the Plex server. qbt and Open VPN in a docker, possibly on the old box, possibly on the mini PC. Radarr and Sonarr connected to qbt and Plex. It makes sense, but I don’t know where to go and what to do yet. I guess as a starting point, I ought to build a qbt a secure, leakproff and private setup on my old box running Radarr/Sonarr/qbt and Plex media server (so I’d need guidance for that) and then once that is up and running, migrate the Plex server to a new mini PC/NAS. But I’m still open to another type of setup.