I am almost done building my first self hosted streambox through Docker. That’s a total of 16 instances, each fulfilling 1 specific role.

As I’m new to the *arr world, could you please help me understand why it is standard to deploy multiple *arr services for each media type (ex: readarr1 for books + readarr2 for audiobooks) instead of using 1 that does multiple media types?

Thank you.

  • Crogdor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    9 months ago

    I do wish I didn’t need to run a second Radarr instance to have both 1080p and 4K media.

    • AtmaJnana@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Not everyone has to, though. I use one instance for a wide variety of resolutions, depending on the show and consumption model; including 360,480,720,1080, 2160 (HDR/10-bit). But I run Plex on a box with quicksync that is doing my transcoding for me.

      So why have you chosen to run different instances?