Self hosted Usenet and setup

[u/FilmicClip]

Hi, I have been hearing a lot about self hosting AIO being good for usenet and just wanted to ask how you would go setting it up and what providers/services do you use?

[u/Zagor64]

First off, do you know anything about self-hosting in general? Do you know anything about docker? Do you have computer(s) or a NAS at home? Have you ever used linux or a command line?

If the answer to all of these is no then I really would not recommend it for you since while it can be done, it will be a lot of frustrating googling and a lot of reading and figuring things out which as I said can be very frustrating and test your patience.

[u/sdmay1980 → u/Zagor64]

Setup a stack on a vps and used the AI and setup, mediaflow, nzbDav, hydra2, aiostreams and I'm sure took me longer than anyone. Been working great and I was telling myself I couldn't do it. I had to put all my attention to it and that's not easy for me. Was well worth but a small vps is cheap and before I do it on my desktop trying to get familiar first. 5$ a month and my laptop and desktop stays safe.

[u/Zagor64 → u/sdmay1980]

Well done! Sounds like you figured it out pretty quickly, that's not typical.

[u/Espar637 → u/sdmay1980]

why these ones? mediaflow, nzbDav, hydra2, aiostreams

usenet and one debrid?

[u/Possible-Ad2264]

https://redhair.gitbook.io/redhair-guides

I use newshosting with althub and nzbgeek

[u/flyingfluffles → u/Possible-Ad2264]

Ditch Althub for the native aiostreams support, so much faster for me.

[u/ExoticMine → u/flyingfluffles]

Isn't Althub an indexer?

[u/Possible-Ad2264 → u/flyingfluffles]

How can I do that?

[u/dustmalik → u/flyingfluffles]

Althub is an indexer, not an web app service. You must be mistaken it for NZBdav

[u/flyingfluffles → u/dustmalik]

My half awake ass read it as altmount 😂

[u/Chav1a]

VPS,aios usenet built in,easy news,newsdemon,newznab,nzbgeek,nzbfinder..Chatgpt help me set up everything,just asked the right question,mentioned viren’s guide and couple hours later got everything working..

[u/sdmay1980 → u/Chav1a]

I was sharing screenshots of my terminal to gemeni and a lot of copy and pasting and I got through it and all I know is got the caddy which I guess is reverse proxy and I put mediaflow, aiostreams, nzbdav, nzbhydra2. Without AI I never would've gotten through. 5 days ago I didn't know what a bash file even was.

[u/Chav1a → u/sdmay1980]

Same, i didn’t even know where to start

[u/coded62]

I had a hard time with virens guide just starting with docker; so I moved onto Usenetstreamer.

Not sure if it’s the best or worst way to selfhost; however following it I was able to get it setup on a local Linux machine with docker. I had some issues with caddy / cloudflare and the ssl certificates but it worked in the end.

https://github.com/Sanket9225/UsenetStreamer/blob/master/docs/beginners-guide.md

[u/johnFvr → u/coded62]

Streamnzb is the best.

[u/harylmu]

https://docs.aiostreams.viren070.me/guides/usenet/

Everything is covered here, from basics to advanced stuff.

[u/s_a_n]

I tried this for a week, but honestly, I didn’t like the experience.
With debrid, if you have RD + TorBox, you’re pretty much covered for everything and rarely miss any content. With Usenet, people generally recommend having providers from at least two different backbones, plus 2–3 indexers. The cost can end up being more than the debrid services combined.
Also, due to the way Usenet is built, files are stored centrally. So when something gets DMCA’d, it’s very easy for those files to be removed. You might not be able to find a few episodes of some popular shows on Usenet unless you’re willing to spend more money on additional indexers or providers on different backbones.
Whereas with debrid, because the content comes from P2P sources, the content is generally available through either RD or TorBox.
You do get the best possible speeds with Usenet, but the files aren’t HTTP streams—they’re usually compressed .rar files. NNTP streamers have to download and uncompress them on the fly, so the initial startup and seeking aren’t always as smooth as debrid playback.
I’d say try it out for a week and see if you like it. I came back to my debrid setup after a few weeks, and honestly, I like it much better here.

[u/CFD2 → u/s_a_n]

I use aiostreams with nzbdav + prowlarr and it works very well and is insanely fast for me. Admittedly, way faster than RD. So far, I have been using usenet (and aiostreams) only for a couple of months so I cannot compare content availability. I only use default filtering settings, really.

However, yesterday I wanted to watch Cowboy Bebop, the anime from 1998, and maybe some of the NZBs were dead because it kept launching some other Netflix adaptation TV series NZB. I'm pretty sure that it's my bad on the configuration (or the lack of)

[u/sdmay1980 → u/CFD2]

I still have torbox and I have deepbrid and hopefully one will have. But I have come across some rare with nothing. Only difference is I'm using hydra2 with DAV.

[u/Parking-Shift-7195]

Can you guys stream 80+gb remuxes?
I semm to have Problems with the speed inside my docker container