In-depth guides, technical walkthroughs, and insights on the technology and software that powers QuickBox Pro.
The biggest update to the QuickBox Pro v4 dashboard since its launch is landing soon — Plex arrives in the WSDashboard streaming monitor, a purpose-built Fail2Ban control center rolls out with a per-application jail library, and WireGuard VPN app-scoped routing reaches stability.
A thorough, practical guide to locking down your QuickBox Pro server — from Fail2Ban's per-application jail library and dashboard control center to WireGuard VPN app-scoped routing and the full suite of firewall tools built into the v4 dashboard.
We launched analytics on quickbox.io without Google, Plausible, or any third-party tracker. Here is the architecture, the privacy trade-offs, and why we built it ourselves.
The What's Streaming Dashboard (WSDashboard) now treats Plex as a first-class media server alongside Emby and Jellyfin - sessions, analytics, history, item detail, mark-watched, ratings, and admin Playback Mirror all on parity across the three backends.
Streaming services keep raising prices. Self-hosting on a seedbox keeps getting cheaper. Here are the actual 2026 numbers, and the breakeven point most people miss.
A clean, current Sonarr v4 + Radarr configuration for QuickBox Pro: quality profiles, custom formats, and the tracker/indexer setup that actually downloads what you want.
ruTorrent is great. qBittorrent is too. Here is when the migration is worth it, what you actually have to move, and how to keep ratios and tracker history intact.
Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby all run great on QuickBox Pro. Here is how to choose between them in 2026, feature by feature, with no marketing fluff.
A safe, repeatable Debian 11 → 12 upgrade path that preserves your service configurations, survives SSH disconnects, and gets you onto the current security baseline.