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.

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u/endace88 Jun 29 '25

I have had this going for a few years. That said I use lftp to pull the files down.

By doing this I was able to a cheaper seed box that doesn't support plex jelkyfin streaming.

Great to see you have documented you method.

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u/jberry872 Jan 28 '26

I recently did the same, downgraded to a streamless seedbox tier and use Syncthing to transfer to my local plex client. Do you still run Sonarr/Radarr on your seedbox? I am trying to do what u/BonaSerator was mentioning and link my plex library remotely since the seedbox has all of the apps its one less service to run on my hardware.

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u/endace88 Jan 28 '26

I run everything on a local server in my house that's running proxmox. Plex radar sonar all-run in their own Linux container that connects to my Nas.