Need a good seedbox

[dunson]

FatCat, thats a great guide. I think it should be stickied, especially with the half dozen seedbox questions that seem to pop up here every day from noobs like me.

I really appreciated this guide and read through it 2 or 3x.

[fatcat69]

FatCat, thats a great guide. I think it should be stickied, especially with the half dozen seedbox questions that seem to pop up here every day from noobs like me.

I really appreciated this guide and read through it 2 or 3x.

Thanks mate, I did submit it and once it is approved it will be in my sig.

Here is the rest of it:

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The Owner FAQ


I just got my seedbox log in information...what do I do now?

(This is for windows, if you have linux and could make a tutorial, pm me and Ill edit it in and credit you :-D, preferably one with wine/utorrent and then one with rtorrent)

For either operating system, please do this:

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Keep that OS safe!
http://www.nsa.gov/snac/downloads_wi...ID=scg10.3.1.1

Encrypt that hard drive:
http://www.truecrypt.org/

1. Log in using remote desktop using the IP address and log in information given to you by your provider.

2. Download and install the latest version of uTorrent. Click Here

3. Set the connection settings to these:



4. Adjust any other settings that you want via personal preference.

5. Download some torrent files and begin!


How do I get my files off of my seedbox to my house?

You use an FTP. There is a complete guide for this. (see my sig)

I have a seedbox, but I keep getting disk overload and my speeds drop off the charts. Why Does this happen and how do I fix it?

What is happening is that your bit torrent client is downloading faster then your hard drive can write to the disk. This usually happens with IDE hard drives when the memory set aside to buffer the disk becomes full. The data comes into the server too fast and the server doesn't know what to do with it so it just loses data.

How to fix it.

1. First, do a clean install of utorrent to clean out any custom settings you may have adjusted. As something might be corrupt. Then set the connection settings to how they are in the picture below if you have a dedicated box. If you are on VPS, start at the default recommended settings for xx/100Mb. Check to see if it still happens. If it still does, proceed to step 2.



2. Check all the boxes like they are in the image below. If you have 1gb of ram in your server, set the cache to what it is in the image. If you have 512mb. Set it to 150mb. Check and see if it happens still. If it does Proceed to step 3.



3. If the first two options didnt work, then it is a hard disk issue. Run various hard disk analysis tools to see if the disk is working 100% correctly. If it is, your download speed just is too much for the disk write speed. So you will have to limit your download on large files such as anything over 4gb limit the global download speed to 3mb/s and watch it for a while.

If you start to see all your uploading approach zero, then decrease the download speed to 2.5mb/s. That is a sign that the disk cant keep up.
If everything is stable at 3Mb/s, try 3.5Mb/s and continue tweaking back and forth until you are stable.

I have found that with my vectoral box, 4.3Mb/s seems to be the sweet spot where I will still be able to upload/download at the same speeds for anything over 4gb.


I get to 99.9% and my internet traffic stops for a few minutes and then once that file says 100% it comes back, how come and can I fix this?

This happens because your memory is buffering the download when you are downloading faster then your hard drive can write. There is no known fix, however, you can limit your download speed accordingly to remove it. Personally, I just deal with it for the 1 minute on the rare occasion it happens as downloading it faster is more important to me, so I can share it on other sites, not just where I downloaded it from.

Enjoy

[dunson]

Thanks again. You're a great help.

Btw, are you the same fatcat @ bitsoup?

[fatcat69]

Thanks again. You're a great help.

Btw, are you the same fatcat @ bitsoup?

Na I use a different nick on trackers, to avoid filling my pm box here lol

[theglutton]

If you're willing to start with something, I suggest you http://jmhservices.com/seed.htm It's obviously not the best one, but it's something you might want to start with. PS: Great guide fatcat69

[fatcat69]

If you're willing to start with something, I suggest you http://jmhservices.com/seed.htm It's obviously not the best one, but it's something you might want to start with. PS: Great guide fatcat69

Thanks mate,

But I wouldnt recommend torrentflux services. All this is, is a box with about 10-20 people using it. Why pay and make someone rich and have junky service, when you can have your own desktop and do what ever you want on the computer. Torrentflux is never good to pay for in any situation.

Id recommend vps to wet your feet and then dedi once you get addicted to the speed

Never Torrentflux based pay to use.

[NekohDot]

I think im gonna buy an OVH one because people have told me theres problem with hosting-ie and installing utorrent.

But the problem is i have no experience on linux and the cheapest box on OVH is linux unless i want to pay an extra £10 ontop of the £20 for the seedbox.

So im not entirely sure what im going to do yet but thank you everyone for the help and suggestions

Much appreciated.

[SgtMajor]

If you are in the UK, then sign up for a free KimiSurf for 12 months:

http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8

You need to order a KimiSurf for 12 months from ovh, do not pay, post in the forums with your order number, sit back and wait and hope you were in the first 100, I was

Thanks to the person that sent me the link, I got one

Now I need to get to grips with Fedora a little bit

[TechnoMan80]

For 12 month ??

Is that not too much ?

Do no , I prefer hosting-ie at list you can cancel the server anytime with 30 days notice
no matter when, and speeds are grate as well.

[Aka_katz]

try this : http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/kimsufi08.xml