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Chaptarr has arrived, Grimmory steps up, and Readarr sails away
The long-awaited Readarr successor lands on the shelves: Chaptarr manages audiobooks and eBooks in one instance with metadata that works. Grimmory replaces BookLore in the book bundles, and Readarr begins its farewell tour.
AIOStreams NNTP is out (and why Elfies don’t need it)
AIOStreams has a new upstream release whose headline feature is built-in NNTP support. This release has been highly-anticipated in the ...
Meet Sam, your (AI) Elf-Helper
Sam is an AI helper built into your ElfHosted dashboard. He checks your stack, explains what is broken, fixes it with your say-so, and answers straight from the docs, all without your secrets ever reaching the AI.
Welcome to “Hamsterdam” (NL datacenter available for migrations)
We've been working on extending our datacenter presence across EU and US, and have just launched our NL datacenter, elfhosted.coffee, l...
How to choose your best datacenter
ElfHosted has added new datacenters in Australia, France, and Canada. Check your recommended datacenter now, and self-migrate if your current region is not optimal.
Announcing Debridge: one key, every provider, one mega-cache
Debridge is live on ElfHosted: bring your own debrid and Usenet provider keys, combine provider caches, and route streams through one managed key.
Balrog has entered the stack
Balrog is the new ElfHosted-native personal media stack layer for Debridge, which aggregates your own providers. Stremio addons connect to Debridge with one key; Balrog is for Hobbit+ Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby stacks.
Real-Debrid’s May 2026 filter-gate. Here’s what we’ve done about it so far.
Seeing "File was removed from debrid service due to copyright infringement" in Stremio? Here's what the Real-Debrid message means, what we changed in the addons we host, and the other setups you can try.
Secure your ElfStash with 2FA
Until now we've been using "OwnID" to allow you to add biometric logins to your ElfHosted store account, but this has been troublesome ...
FileBrowser gets a Quantum Upgrade! ⚡️
FileBrowser Quantum is here!
All ElfHosted users have an instance of FileBrowser for managing config files, symlinks, and storage. Toda...