After running my media downloader setup for over a year now one limitation I am experiencing is I find that the amount of content that it finds and ultimately downloads is directly proportional to number of paid usenet indexers I have. Beside the expense, I just haven't really found any one reliable indexer who has the content that I am looking for so I am thinking about setting up my own personal indexer but I find the information about the various tools that do that to be either somewhat dated or written in such a way that they don't actually explain how they perform the task that are designed to perform. With that in mind I am hoping someone can answer some of my overview questions and offer some advice.
- Can someone explain what the difference is between NewzNab/nZEDb, nzbhydra/nzbmegasearch, and Spotweb? How do they work and what are the relative merits of each?
- What is the degree of difficulty in setting up and running each?
- What sort of hardware and storage capacity do each require? Can any be run on a Raspberry PI or Bannana PI with a reasonable expectation of performance?