It’s a good idea to run your torrent downloads through an anonymous VPN. Unlike Usenet, which runs over SSL, torrents just use regular unencrypted traffic. Your ISP can see what you’re downloading. The MPAA and other officials can see all…Continue Reading →
Now we’ll install Plex! This indexes all the media and allows your devices to stream video from your server. We’ll download Plex into the temporary directory and install some prerequisites. You’ll want to go to the Plex download site, under…Continue Reading →
CouchPotato is like SickBeard, but for movies. It will use torrents to download the files instead of Usenet. We’ll need to download the software into a hidden folder in our home folder. cd ~ git clone https://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotatoServer.git .couchpotato Now let’s…Continue Reading →
SickBeard is one of the coolest pieces of this setup. This is what is used to control what TV shows you are subscribed to and will go out and search for NZB files to download. It gets TV show information…Continue Reading →
Now we’ll be installing Transmission. This is a torrent client that has a web front end. First, we need to add transmission to our repository and install it. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon…Continue Reading →
You’ve might have heard about this thing called Usenet. Back in the day in the early days of the internet (80’s and 90’s), it was essentially a message board system where you could post stuff for people to see. Eventually…Continue Reading →
At this point, you’ll want to log into your server. Enter in the username you chose before, hit enter, then put in the password. You’ll notice when you are entering the password that the cursor does not move. That’s just…Continue Reading →
Download Software and OS The first thing you will need to do is download and install VirtualBox. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Next, you need to download an ISO of Ubuntu server. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server You may have heard of Ubuntu and even used it, but…Continue Reading →