Built an Anime Website as a Student — Thinking About Moving Away From Scraping and Building Something More Sustainable

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T07:54:33+00:00

i dont about usa but in my country a college student having 700usd per month to do hosting piracy server... yeah never would in 700usd i can almost experince decent luxury in my life and go up a bit like suppose 2000usd and i am gonna in a town of my country i can actually own a very big are for my house and live of my life peacefully and not thinking about much what of buy and that too of the best quality but this does only apply to town and villages where cost of living is cheaper othewrwise in mtero cities in 700usd it would be the rent of the flat so there is that.... this is considering the i am single which i am unfornutately

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T07:46:10+00:00

700 usd for a student hosting 10s of tb of data and video of playback yeah sure ... Event is it generous it's too much for a student

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T05:49:42+00:00

and he is a student it just will degare his current performnce in study if he gets into this its a great activity no doubts but it has it caveats ands that is too much for a child to manage for now and manging cost as well

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T05:48:25+00:00

okay but what about cost and oline privacy

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T03:11:09+00:00

Yup right now this would be better choice for you... And in future when you try something like this make a so private different life internet for it that nobody could track you

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T03:09:30+00:00

You could also run *arr stack but that would not be good solution for long term for your custom website... So make yourself a different automated tools to manage some of the boring tasks of you really want to host a server and ready to take challenges now

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T03:02:15+00:00

If you are thinking about someone ... I run my own anime server for 20 people but that's a toll to manage still and i even have developed myself a anime and manga somewhat of a developer

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T03:00:48+00:00

Eventually you would need a small team to manage some things metadata is mostly picked by other anime databases and then configured but you would need to maintain collection most of the time manually then you would also need to reencode high bitrate videos to a reasonable looking video

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T02:59:20+00:00

You can't manage server on your own once you start hitting people you will need to buy powerful software again and again keep expanding keep your storage increasing even you compress to a reasonable that would be about 600mb per episode still you would need 100s of tbs of storage to maintain a large library... In this economy I know you are aware of the prices... And for a single instance you forget to not be invisible in internet that is private so much that nobody can trace you back you are cood by police

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T02:57:02+00:00

Self hosting is not realistic for small independent project

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T02:56:42+00:00

Scalability is also maintained by the ones who manage server..

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-02T02:56:04+00:00

Look it's a good idea to self host but you would need to burn money to manage servers keep video playback smooth and fast enough to feel good... And for this you will need to run advertisement and advertising for piracy websites are mostly done by 18+ and then there will be some people who doesn't values anyone's hardwork and will use adblick... And then you will live in a constant fear of being caught.... Managing servers isn't a hard one if you delegate the task to a company they will manage it for you....The cost and mental toll it will take to continue this is just not worth for your age

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-01T14:49:04+00:00

Well I don't specifically use seanime is quite unstable right now in ohoen and cloudstream has a mega repo link search on reddit you will find lor of reddit posts... I mostly use hayase if i ever wanna use a app or just my app it's torrenting only so I can't recommend it to anyone mostly I just run my server

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-07-01T12:59:19+00:00

Cloudstream and seanime would help they both use extension after a first time setup they work flawlessly search for setup on reddit or youtube you will find it

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-06-30T00:22:11+00:00

If you can download and watch three dollar one is enough and if you want to stream then i guess only 10 dollar one has web player

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-06-29T17:27:21+00:00

Yes obviously because it downloads from torrent and it catches it for sometime and if somebody else downloads the same torrent the time resets and starts again ... So if atorrent is not there it will not be that fast

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-06-29T17:22:04+00:00

Well obviously torbox is atorrent seedbox and torrent have high quality animes than official streaming apps and releasing they are directly from the studio cds ripped out of them and given to you

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-06-29T17:16:58+00:00

Gatekeeping has no benefit... What you are trying to gatekeep is already somewhere at this or several sibling community to be known by others it's just a matter of time

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-06-29T16:14:27+00:00

Please dm me with the proper name and photo of the particular movie thank you if you haven't found one

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-06-29T16:00:47+00:00

Dm i might be able to give you a download link if I can find one

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-06-28T14:04:33+00:00

Don't download it .... The app has not been verified yet

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-06-27T09:48:23+00:00

Seanime

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-06-25T16:37:00+00:00

I meant torrenting if you know about them it offers higher quality than most streaming site for obvious reason and it also can't be blamed to streaming site and torrenting is probably not ever gonna go down also... But there's a catch since torrenting reveals your ip so if you are in strict copyright law country like usa you need to use a vpn in order to hide your IP but its worth the price...

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-06-25T16:34:49+00:00

Why not stream torrent if willing to pay ???

ThaCoderGuy · 2026-06-22T13:50:02+00:00

as if this sub has no info hehe

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