Ah, well the qbittorrent config file should live in the directory you mapped to /config. I think you can pull the default one and edit it for your container.

Fair enough, but OPs problem can be solved by changing a 0 to a 1 in a single file.

Just use a different port number. I’m not sure why it’s necessary to use the same one since you can change qbittorrent’s port in the config files.

Does top show unpaged memory too? I’ve had an application with a memory leak before that would fill up unpaged memory and it would look like nothing was using ram when I looked in the task manager, even though usage was 99%.

Yeah, and there are plenty for $100-150 with lower specs that might be suitable. I haven’t cracked mine open yet, but there’s a data connector that they advertise for a 2.5" ssd, as well as an included m.2 ssd. But even if you just got a usb-c drive enclosure it would be faster than a pi.

Pis are great for small applications, so if your goal is just to have drive failure tolerance, it would work. If you want to run something like plex off of the data there you’ll have a bad time.

Personally, I’d just buy a synology 2-3 drive box and call it good. I love my 5x5 setup, and a lot of my local services run off it in docker containers.

Beelink is just an inexpensive brand of mini PCs like the Intel NUC. The one I have for my office draws 25W max, but has a 12th gen i3 in it, 16gb ddr5 ram, wifi6, and dual 2.5gb/s ethernet for like $300

If you’re going to be basing this on a pi4, I wouldn’t spend the money on SSDs. The pi is going to be your bottleneck, not the drives.

The IO board only has a PCIe 2.0 x1 which has a max speed of 500MB/s.

You’d honestly be better off building an itx system or buying a cheap one and upgrading stuff like RAM. Hell, even a Beelink would be better than a pi

Yes, your router can likely act as a VPN server, but I would definitely have a hardware firewall if you’re going to be exposing ports to the public internet.

Also, a wifi adapter for the server is going to be better than a powerline adapter. What I did for my home lab was bought some cheap Netgear routers and turned them to bridge mode and hooked all 4 ports from the server to the router.

Yeah, it definitely took me a minute to get things set up properly, and I had to get a new VPN service, but it’s been great so far.

I just got a MikroTik RB5009UPr+S+in and I’m loving it so far. I’m going to pair it with their AX ceiling wireless AP if I can ever catch it on sale again.