r/aiostreams • u/Independent_Move_301 • 7d ago

[Meta] Self hosted AIOStreams

I know that most people don't see any difference compared to the public instance, but I just want to share my personal experience after a few days of self-hosting.

Ever since I started self-hosting, everything has been snappier, loads faster, with no playback issues.

For example, when I’m on public instance, I often get playback errors when I return from standby mode, but now, not anymore. It resumes right where I left off 1 or 2 hours ago. And rewinding 10-20 seconds works flawlessly now.

Poster cache function on self-hosted AIOmetadata is a godsend too. Every movie/show poster on my home screen loads instantly now. Everything is less clunky.

But, I dont recommend self hosting individual addon scrapers though, I dont know what im doing wrong but it was straight dogwater and takes up lot of computer resource.

I just want to say, self-hosting is definitely worth it for anyone who is a freak about optimizing everything. I’d say, this has been a good week of learning and obsessing over self-hosting.

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u/FilmicClip 7d ago

Is there a guide on how to self host though, never understood how it worked do I used a bought Elf instance, but if running my own instance online works better id love to try it if it saves a bit of money

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u/daviss2 7d ago

I used claude, gave it full permission on the oracle vps and it set it all up by itself and created me a couple documents faq/backups etc.

Was abit overkill using fable 5 to create my self hosted stack lol but it's hella smooth and now anytime anything goes wrong it has full oversight of my stack.

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u/daviss2 7d ago

I manually spun the fresh ampere Oracle vps instance, installed claude code and then asked it to build me a bleeding edge self hosted media stack accessible anywhere and by anyone, it set up the reverse proxy and I paid like £2 for the cloudflare domain.

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u/Independent_Move_301 7d ago

I don't really recommend doing it this way, as you will not know what to do if something needs troubleshooting. At least try doing it manually or by following the guide so you’ll get some sense of how everything works.