This is a really great ELI5 explanation of how Usenet filesharing works technically, nice!

I also use a Hetzner Storagebox for my Jellyfin instance, I mount it via SMB. Works great.

For German stuff there is xrel.to

You might want to have a look at Usenet. Yes, it costs money but it's such a premium experience compared to torrents and you don't have to care about seeding etc at all

Just having a Jellyfin instance for family and friends. I have everything in h264 for maximum compatibility to avoid transcoding. All 12 seasons of Bones (2005) take up 800GB alone for example. A 1080P Remux movie takes 10-40GB

Really depends on your usage. I have a few Terrabytes of Usenet traffic every month so I'm glad I don't have to use block accounts for that

Radarr/Sonarr can't handle multiple versions of the same movie/episode, so a lot of people have a second instance for 4K movies (so they can have both a 1080p and a 4K version of the same movie). Also if you have a lot of anime it can be worth it to have a Sonarr instance configured just for that

fileleechers is a board and not an indexer though right? So you can't add it to Sonarr and Radarr

Feel free to correct me, I don't know a lot about them since they are invite only

I already responded to you on reddit, but for Usenet you really don't need a VPN, only for torrents. I also told you to just use Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr and SABnzbd but since you also want something to play the items definitely keep Jellyfin. I also recommend to keep Jellyseerr as it's a great way to request and find new movies and shows.

I'll paste my original response from reddit here just in case someone else is looking for the same thing:

Assuming you want to fully automate it by using Sonarr and Radarr you can use my fork of docker-media-center which has SabnZBD for Usenet downloads:

https://github.com/PCJones/docker-media-center

Sadly I haven't got the time yet to update the documentation but if you know docker you should be able to figure it out, if not I'll gladly help.

You'll want to remove all services you don't want from the docker compose file (so for a simple Usenet Setup you'll only want Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, SabnZBD).

Important stuff missing from the documentation:

• the git clone link in the documentation is still pointing to the original repository, make sure to clone mine

• at some point docker will tell you that it can't find the network global or local (one of these, I forgot which. But it'll tell you) When that happens all you have to do is execute docker network create global (or local)

• after starting all services (especially SabnZBD) you'll need to execute the file set_sabnzbd_hostname.sh once and then restart the SabnZBD container.

• In the sabnZBD Folder settings you'll need to set the temp folder to data/temp (it doesn't have to be temp, you can chose another name).

• In the sabnZBD Folder settings you'll need to set the completed download folder to data/downloads

• In the sabnZBD Categories settings you'll need to set the Folder/Path to data/downloads/radarr for movies and to data/downloads/sonarr for TV and anime

• you'll have to add sabnZBD as download client in both Radarr and Sonarr. Just use sabnzbd as hostname

Once set up and configured it works like a charm.

And again, if you need assistance just let me know and I'll help

Since you are looking for German movies you might be interested in my German DL Sonarr & Radarr guide:

https://github.com/PCJones/radarr-sonarr-german-dual-language

It really depends on what he needs and want to achieve. I host a Jellyfin (FOSS Plex) instance for me and some friends so I pay around 10€ for a VPS + 50€ per month for 20TB storage at hetzner alone (can't host at home because I only get 50k upload), but he most like won't need that if he is just hosting it at home for himself.

So assuming it's just him or people in his household using what he needs is:

• a PC/Laptop/Homeserver/Raspberry Pi/Toaster with enough storage to host everything
• Free Software: Sonarr & Radarr & SABnzbd to automatically find movies, shows and download them*
• Optional: a free media server like Jellyfin
• A Usenet provider. There is a lot of info on this if you look for it but for a beginner I'd recommend frugal Usenet for 40$ a year if he is mostly downloading new stuff:

https://billing.frugalusenet.com/signup/neQeZxl

If he is also downloading a lot of older (think 10+ years) stuff he should get ewaka for 48€/year (or keep an eye out for the 36€ year deal that pops up sometimes):

https://www.eweka.nl/en/landing/special-deal

• A Usenet indexer. scenenzbs.com costs 15-20€/year and is THE must have indexer for German content right now. Additionally, Drunkenslug(private, but lot's of invites going around) or nzbgeek (public) are great for english content and also do have some German stuff. They also cost 15-20€/year. To start sceneNZBs should be enough though.

Let me know if you/he needs more info or guides, but like I said it really depends on what his setup is supposed to be in the end

*edit: of course you can also skip Sonarr & Radarr and just search on scenenzbs.com by hand.

There are indexer specialized in this for almost every language. If you are looking for German dubs by chance send me a message