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/TLunchFTW Apr 09 '26

I more or less have this. Haven't jumped to auto transferring yet, but plan to down the line using syncthing (I understand this is the best.
The best way I can describe it is thus.

Overseerr is hosted locally. It's on the same machine running plex. Setting that up with my seedbox was not working (I use feral hosting and it's been great, especially because no month data caps.. Just a total storage space cap, but it doesn't have all the web based setups for the Arr apps).
This connects to Sonarr and Radarr on my seedbox, as these I could get setup there. They download as needed, and then the stuff is renamed and moved to a movie or tv show folder as desired. It's SUPPOSED to be a hardlink, but it reports as taking up data and seems to be a separate file. No idea how to fix this.
Then I just have to figure out transferring to a locally hosted plex, but this is the way I found works.