The original post: /r/homelab by /u/DrResophonic on 2025-03-11 20:50:38.
https://github.com/DrResophonic/media-server-template
Hey everyone, I have never self-hosted anything before, nor have I ever done anything with Plex or streaming media myself. I came in with a completely blank slate but wanted to figure out how I could set something up without a big investment, time or money. I went all over the place looking at TRaSH Guides, getting started guides for usenet, even down to learning how to install Linux. I’m also not a videophile/audiophile by any means, I have basic 4K smart TVs with no sound systems, and I didn’t know the first thing about blu ray rips, webdl vs webrips, and I still don’t know much.
It took me a while to figure everything out, so I started documenting useful links and ultimately came up with this repo that has a docker-compose.yml file and a long readme going from installing Ubuntu server to running the applications.
I figured it might be helpful to people just starting out, so the repo is linked above. Full disclosure:
- I’m happy to try and help and I have a technical background but again, I know very little about all this. Please forgive me if something is done incorrectly. If anyone has feedback on how to improve though I’m all ears
- I wrote a lot of this documentation for myself after the fact. The actual process was out of order and I stumbled around. I did my best to compile my notes into a semi-readable format. Again please forgive me if something is out of order or doesn’t work quite right.
As you can see I never post on Reddit I just wanted to try and help, if this doesn’t belong here or isn’t allowed I will remove it. I didn’t see anything in the rules forbidding it.