With Netflix and other streaming platforms increasing price, I finally decided to get a seedbox for my family members’ needs with Plex/jellyfin.

My budget is 10-15 USD per month. I’m currently on the 11$ hostingby.design plan with 4TB storage and 9TB traffic, 10gbit connection. I’ve been mostly happy but,

  • Their app selection feels small though I’ve found most of the mainstream stuff.
  • I’m missing things like cross-seed, jellystat, jellyfin-vue, transmission and audiobookshelf.
  • Not happy with how apps installed by the GitHub scripts are not available on HTTPS.
  • Can’t disable ssh password login for public key, which is making me really uncomfortable.
  • Their wiki seems quite sparse.

The other options I’m thinking of are:

  • 13$ HDD plan at seedhost.eu - 4TB/9TB but only 1gbps, downgrade in specs but seems to have more apps.
  • 14$ plan at ultra.cc with 3TB/8TB but 20gps (which feels like an overkill honestly). Also a downgrade but their wiki/app support looks top notch.

I really wish there was a way I could manage docker containers on my own on a similar shared setup without paying for a dedicated vps but haven’t found something like that so far.

Any advice regarding the other providers, experience or otherwise would be greatly appreciated :)

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    Hey, you’ve been really helpful, so thank you :) The reason I didn’t go with Singapore is because my partner currently lives in the US and this is mostly for her, I have my own homelab setup that I haven’t exposed to the internet.

    I’ll checkout if I can write my own nginx files on hostinby as well based on what you said :D

    Ultra looks to have the most apps supported out of the box, so I might switch to them if I can’t iron out stuff on hbd. I saw that hbd has a script for homebrew of all things. Are you familiar with using brew to install stuff on Linux?

    • @[email protected]English
      2•11 months ago

      I’ve never used homebrew so I’m not sure. Looking at their discord, it’s also not supported by them so I don’t even know how you’d go about it tbh. Try it out and see if you can figure it out, maybe it’s just a simple path issue

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        Yeah. I got pipx and npx working so, simple things should be fine. I really wish distrobox would work but it hasn’t so far.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•11 months ago

          This is the first I’m hearing of distrobox. Guessing you need root priveleges for that?

          • @[email protected]OPEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            Not really, you can use rootless docker or podman but the seedbox owners need to add you to the correct groups and they’re not willing to do that.