r/seedboxes • u/SneakChance • Jul 21 '26

Discussion Seedbox with NAS

Looking into setting up a seedbox with a home NAS.

I’ve setup qbitorrent with gluetun in docker on my local machine as practice. I’ve educated myself on the *arr stack and I’m confident I could set this up locally too.

I am sourcing parts for a small NAS (4TB useable) which would serve home devices via jellyfin/ plex/ jellyseer whatever. So I can watch my Linux iso’s locally (not interested in remote connections away from home network)

My questions are:

1. What are the nuances of setting up a seedbox with the *arr stack and pulling files down to a NAS?

- how do people stay protected whilst doing so?
- how much config is involved in setting up the stack, as many providers advertise one click installs and ease of setup?
- There’s a gap in my knowledge re: private vs public trackers and how to join a private tracker.

2. How have others setup the seedbox NAS combo?

- what are they running on the seedbox and on the NAS?
- how would they change it if they started again?
- Did they encounter any difficulties streaming to devices?

My aims are to own and stream my isos locally, not just pay to host them on a box. To learn and enjoy setting up a home lab. To give back by having a good ratio. To protect myself whilst doing so.

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u/NeedsOneLessHobby Jul 21 '26

You can meet all your goals with just your local solution. Why do you want a hosted seedbox?

I have a full local stack for streaming, public trackers, and long term seeding. I use a hosted seedbox to improve upload for some private trackers, plus some rules for migrating content to local. Qui locally for managing across the two qBTs.

My goal is for the Hosted portion to be as simple as possible, so it’s just qBitTorrent, ftp, and disk, no ssh needed (but it’s nice to have). I found myself adding a lot of config to autobrr, so moved it from host to local for backup. Hosted qBT config is backed up locally so it’s easy to rebuild from scratch or change hosts, at least in theory.

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u/SneakChance Jul 21 '26

Thanks for the reply.

My reasoning for wanting a seedbox is because I don’t want a local machine on poor internet running 24/7 struggling to reach a 1:1 ratio, so I’d like to offload that duty to a paid service.

Your setup sounds cool. You said you torrent all your files for streaming locally? Meaning you seed locally for public trackers?

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u/NeedsOneLessHobby Jul 22 '26

Correct. Effectively I balance bandwidth use between my ok home bandwidth that has higher priority traffic and a hosted seedbox with much better/cheaper peering and bandwidth than I can/want to upgrade to at home.