About
What is this?
peasnt.net is a personal homepage that points to a few tools I run for myself and a small number of invited people.
The main one is something called a home media server.
What does that mean, in normal terms?
It means I have a computer at home that stays on and is connected to the internet.
Instead of being used for email or web browsing, that computer’s job is to store my movies, TV shows, music, and audiobooks, and to send them to my devices when I want to watch or listen to something.
Those devices can be a phone, a laptop, a tablet, or a TV.
When I open an app and press play, the file isn’t coming from a company’s servers — it’s coming from that computer in my home.
How is that different from Netflix or Spotify?
The experience can look similar: you browse a library, pick something, and press play.
The difference is who controls the library.
With streaming services, a company decides what’s available, what gets removed, and how things are renamed, re-released, or reorganized.
With a home media server, the library belongs to the person running it.
If something is in the library, it’s there because I put it there. If it isn’t, it just hasn’t been added.
Is this just a private version of Spotify or Netflix?
No.
Streaming services are designed to offer huge catalogs and to help people discover new things.
This isn’t meant to replace streaming, and it isn’t for discovery.
The easiest way to think about it is as a personal bookshelf, record shelf, or DVD collection — but with the convenience of streaming.
The library is smaller and curated. It only contains what I’ve taken the time and effort to add, and it reflects personal taste rather than a complete catalog.
The overlap with streaming services is in how it’s delivered, not in how much it contains.
Why would someone want this?
- Media stays available over time
- There are no ads or membership fees
- Nothing tracks what’s being watched or listened to
- Playback works across many devices
- The collection doesn’t change unless I change it
In practice, it’s a way of keeping access to media I care about without depending on a company’s catalog decisions.
Is this public?
Most services here are private and invite-only.
This page exists so people can understand what I mean when I talk about the project, not because everything behind it is meant to be publicly accessible.
Is this legal?
The software used here is completely legal and widely used.
The media stored on it is a personal collection, and the purpose of the system is not mass distribution.
Why does the homepage look so simple?
On purpose.
The front page is meant to be useful as a homepage or new-tab page. It doesn’t track, personalize, or optimize anything.
It’s just a quiet place to start.