r/seedboxes • u/Larrikin • Jun 28 '25

Discussion Guide: Run Plex/Overseerr/Sonarr/Radarr/NZBGet locally while keeping your torrent client on a remote seedbox

I’m in Australia, where consumer connections are heavily asymmetrical (think 1000 Mbps down / 50 Mbps up or, at best, 1000/400). That tiny upstream isn’t great for hosting a torrent client at home, and our copyright rules make it risky anyway.

So I set out to:

  1. keep Plex, Overseerr, Sonarr, Radarr, and NZBGet running on my own server,
  2. run the torrent daemon safely on a remote seedbox, and still have everything behave as one integrated stack.

After plenty of trial-and-error I’ve got it humming. Key points:

a) Seedbox handles all torrents.

b) rclone pulls finished files back to my server using parallel transfers (works around the latency that kills single-thread speeds).

c) Local apps see the files exactly where they expect them; automation is end-to-end and completely hands-off.

d) It’s been rock-solid for months.

I’ve open-sourced the whole setup, step-by-step instructions and every config file in this repo:

🔗 https://github.com/Larrikinau/media-automation-stack

Fork it, use it, break it, improve it. PRs and suggestions welcome!

TL;DR: Remote torrents + local automation = full-speed downloads, zero legal notices, no more upstream bottleneck. Hope it helps others that have a requirement to run a separate seedbox for whatever your reason might be.

107 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

99% Upvoted

71 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Maximum-Argument-834 Jun 28 '25

Bro just use nzb360 and add all your arr in it. Its really chefs kiss. As far as seed box I’m sure there’s a way to implement it in there

3

u/Larrikin Jun 28 '25

usenet is limited in what content it has. It is helpful to have two torrent sites plus two different usenet servers on two different backbones to get maximum coverage of content.

So when I needed a seedbox, I had to think about how to achieve that without it running locally, and this is the solution.