That's the same as having them within the same LAN. That makes https unnecessary, but you'd still have to remember ip+port combos without a domain. The domain doesn't need to be publicly registered unless you want services to be accessible externally without a VPN connection.
I only allow a couple of my services to be accessed directly via public domain, mostly for sharing with friends. The rest you've gotta be within the LAN either by wifi/ethernet or a VPN that I host.
Their quick start quides are pretty good.
I'd start with Radarr (Movie manager), add on Prowlarr (indexer manager), then expand from there. Once you've learned Radarr, the others are very similar.
After that, look into a reverse proxy along with a domain name: Nginx or Apache are the two I hear about most. I use nginx myself. This will let you access services using easily readable names (sonarr.example.com) instead of having to remember the ip+port combinations of each service (192.168.0.200:8096) as well as add https if you're going to be exposing things like emby/jellyfin/plex publicly.
A domain can be purchased/rented from a public registrar to point at your public IP, but you can also use them entirely within your own LAN for free if you setup a local DNS server. I just use pihole for this: easy to setup+use, while providing DNS based adblocking for the whole network.
I don't mind answering questions or providing clarification where I can. :)
..... No? Did you even read my comments?
This actual data is not necessarily representative of the entire situation, just a specific demographic.
Numbers are great, but they're meaningless without context.
My anecdotes are examples of why that may be, as looking at the same or similar problems from different perspectives can help you gain a better understanding.
Because I'm more interested in data than opinion. Maybe they're the same, maybe they aren't; without any data to back it up, that's all it is, opinions.
When I said the numbers muddy, I'm not saying they're wrong necessarily; just that they become quite unclear. You can't be sure they're accurate because you're making assumptions to reach them.
Part of this stems from an opinion of my own however: that public torrents are a shrinking market share of piracy. More and more I see conversations dominated by streams, private torrent trackers, and usenet. That's not to say they've disappeared or ever will, but other means seem more common lately. Though that's admittedly hard to gauge.
A small slice can give you an idea of what the bigger picture may be, but the smaller the slice the less chance that idea will be accurate. Take a jigsaw puzzle for example: if I only look at 10% of the pieces I may get enough detail to figure out what the image is supposed to be, or maybe I'll only get pieces of the empty blue sky... (or is that water... I can't tell)
Ah, my bad. Could have sworn they were an indexer; but it's been a while since I've used torrents.
"several sources" is rather... 'trust us'. Not a fan of that kind of reporting. But I know what you download is something at least.
That expands the scope to several public indexer sites instead of just one, but it's still only public peer-to-peer (torrent) traffic being measured. Usenet, direct download, private/pirate streaming, and private peer-to-peer are still left out.
They explicitly state these are Torrent Freaks numbers. Along with:
It should be noted, as Torrent Freak does, these statistics only reflect a portion of any pirated content this year. The stats are specifically for single-episode torrents, rather than season-wide packages, and even more specifically they’re based on data from the torrenting platform BitTorrent. Just as television has grown and evolved across new formats in the last decade or so, so has piracy, with more and more people turning to sites hosting streams of pirated content, rather than “traditionally” pirating content through downloaded, local copies.
These numbers only reflect piracy of one type and among that type only one, very public, provider. (and not even their entire community, just those that download episodes one by one) That's quite a limited scope. Lots of pirates don't like such public services and/or use other protocols/methods of acquiring media.
Personally, I don't even use Torrents at all anymore, let alone Torrent Freak, yet I pirate hundreds of hours of media every month. I've also been hearing far more commonly in the last few years about people using pirate streaming services instead of downloads.
If you want the full picture, you've gotta expand your demographics. When you only ask the straight white men, all you get is what straight white men think, instead of the whole community's opinion.
... How would you even measure that?
/edit: ah, popular downloads from one particular torrent provider. Not the wider picture.
Add on pirate streams, usenet, and the other half a billion torrent sites and those numbers muddy a bit...
/edit; Woops, meant to be a top-level comment, not a reply...
I have actually, quite a bit. Finding products and store's that sell them really isn't that hard.
The only thing I use amazon for is a general catalogue of items; once I find something I'd like, I buy it elsewhere.
And Usenet has a better selection than both combined, for cheaper and a better experience.
I have not said the data is incorrect, I have said it is only representative of one type of piracy, exactly as the authors of the linked article as well as the original source of the data have.
I've simply made a point of highlighting this fact as the tiles don't make it very obvious.
Once again: