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= Trash Panda Guides =
Before getting into any configuration or architecture guides it's important to recognize TRaSH Guides because without the incredible work they've done nothing here would be possible. A lot of the tuning here is rooted in the guides provided by TRaSH. What I found after following those guides though is that unless you're a hardcore Cinephile looking to create an archive quality media collection the guides might not work well for you. That's where this effort was born.
The guides you will find here are targeting the Plex administrator that is looking to build a set-it-and-forget environment that is built on consumer quality media. That doesn't mean poor quality, it's just a balance between archive quality (and the disk space required for it) and consumer quality where 1080p and 4K content remains manageable in terms of both disk consumption and streamability.
The configurations contained herein will not produce “junk” content libraries, nor will they produce an archive quality library as the TRaSH Guides most certainly will. They will result in maximum efficiency. So, if you're like I was and you want to build a system consisting of quality content without needing petabytes of storage or an NVIDIA Quadro, this is the place for you.
You will find architectural guidance to build a Plex ecosystem for maximum accessibility and security, and configuration guidance to create an ecosystem that practically runs itself. Within this Wiki you'll find configuration guides for Plex, Prowlarr, Sonarr, Radarr, FlareSolverr, NGINX, Jackett, Overseerr, QBittorrent, and Unmanic as well as guides to configure your hardware and networking to optimize speed, efficiency, and reliability.