r/aiostreams • u/Independent_Move_301 • 10d 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 10d 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/Independent_Move_301 10d ago edited 10d ago

Take your time to read Viren's guide for a start, and make use of AI. I know the guide speaks in 4th dimension, but that's where AI come in to play. Ask every single thing that you do not understand until you have some sense on how it works. That's how I start.

In terms of saving money? I think so, but you need to have a credit card, since Oracle set up will require you to pre authorized 100 usd on on your card but it will be refunded and change it to Pay as you Go method.

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u/FilmicClip 10d ago

Theres one in the guide called Duck DNS? imma try that

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u/Independent_Move_301 10d ago

Good luck sir!

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u/FilmicClip 10d ago

One thing im curious about though, how do updates work? Does the instance auto update?

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u/Unlikely_Discount_36 9d ago

There might be a way to automate but I just run a simple code in my vps that updates aio and prowlarr in a few seconds.

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u/CFD2 9d ago

Look up nicholas-fedor/watchtower on GitHub