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Asus WRT Router > Proton VPN
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ProxMox EV
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Debian 12 Headless VM
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Docker Compose
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Docker Engine
Kind of a crude & simplified way of putting my setup but I think it gets the point across.
Just out of curiosity, why bother running 4 instances of qBit for the various *arrs? Why not just use automatic torrent management, and have the different categories download to different folders? My *arrs are all using a single instance of qBit, and each service simply uses a different category with a different download path.
The benefit is that I can see my total up/down speeds, ratios, etc very easily without needing to change to an entirely different instance. I can filter by category, or see everything at the same time.
I started to become frustrated with the queue on a single qbit instance, I would set the max total of active torrents to 15; 10 active downloads and 5 seeding and it starts out fine but eventually those 10 active downloads all became stalled.
The amount of times I have had to open qbit to just move stuff down the queue so other things could download was obnoxious so I made 3 other instances for each *arr and it’s felt easier to manage.
Proton VPN claims to offer Port-Forwarding for their Wireguard router configs however, when I attempt to do it they don’t display the active port anywhere on their website.
+1 for the WRT router, if you can get a decent device with an enough powerful CPU it can host Transmission
Asus WRT Routers are great however, it doesn’t support certain Registrars for DDNS like Cloudflare so I had to install Merlin Firmware, ssh into the router and then manually configure a cron-job so that my A records stay up to date with my WAN.
https://github.com/clayauld/asus-merlin-cloudflare-ddns
Thankfully somebody already been down this path a posted the documentation which made things 100x easier.
My ISP uses CG-WAN so in order for me to remote into it, I had to set up Tailscale, the OS isn't perfect but is way better than any consumer grade router in the market. I also use a custom firmware, a forked version of OpenWRT that works with routers with modems.