Switching Seedboxes Help

[WhiteWizard20]

Hi, as you may know I already have a Vectoral seedbox. Now paying $100+ per month is starting to get too much for me. I love their service but the speeds aren't always up to 2MB/s and the thing that bothers me most is you have to pay for their bandwidth. Right now I have 3TB traffic but I would like to have more because every month I almost max out the traffic. So I am now looking for another seedbox. I am looking for unlimited traffic, 60-120GB hard disk space and I'm willing to pay between $35-$50/month. I heard about hosting-ie and rapid switch, got mixed reviews from both of them. Any other suggestions? Which one do you think may fit my needs? Thanks again for all of your help.

[slayer2005]

Rapidswitch i would go with.
will be a lil more than wat ur willing to pay tho.

[briand5379]

$35-50 why even bother looking your not going to find it. You might need to expand your upper end by 20 or so.

[Artemis]

Most of the mixed reviews with hosting are to do with setup times, since they are a reseller of keyweb it can sometimes take awhile before the server is set up. I have had a hosting-ie server for 6months now and have no complaints. Any issues have been resolved very fast and the data throughput is definitely alot more than 3tb per month.

[Wormtail]

OVH, if you buy a server there with 1gb ram, you will get 11mb/s of upload easily

[Neo]

OVH, if you buy a server there with 1gb ram, you will get 11mb/s of upload easily

I'm also thinking of changing to OVH ( I'm with leaseweb right now but 1GB RAM is just not enough for me... ). I have a friend in the UK that might buy it for me and then give me the login data. Thing is I heard they make some sort of TS that ruins the speeds after a certain point... that is when your traffic is coming/going outside of France.

Could anyone that is with them confirm this? I mean, someone that is not using them in France?

Cheers.

[WhiteWizard20]

So it's either Hosting-Ie or OVH that I will go with. I'm looking at these choices.

Hosting-Ie:
http://hosting-ie.com/content/view/34/75/, the first one.

OVH:
http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/kimsufi.xml

I heard that ovh.uk does not sell to US residents. Is that true?

[Sanka113]

You just have to use a fake address to get an account there. Once you have an account you can pay like normal.

[jonny81985]

I can highly recomend the hosting-ie raptor 5. Thats what I use and easily up 150-200 GB a day if the torrents are good. Get speeds up to 11 mB/s on a vps!!. Average is around 7-8.

Hope this helps

Jon

[briand5379]

You just have to use a fake address to get an account there. Once you have an account you can pay like normal.
How exactly do you pay for it. Surely if you use your visa tied to your home address on the other side of the world there's clearly gonna be some suspicion occurring if not by visa by them and if they suspect something surely they'll cap the speeds like I've heard they do for non specific country users.


I can highly recomend the hosting-ie raptor 5. Thats what I use and easily up 150-200 GB a day if the torrents are good. Get speeds up to 11 mB/s on a vps!!. Average is around 7-8.

Hope this helps

Jon
I think you lucked out. I doubt the average vps sharing with 4 other people is gonna yield those kinds of results especially if they're doing the same thing. Those are the results you get with a dedicated line.

[slayer2005]

Y dont u just find sm1 from the uk and bank transfer the how eva much the server is from ovh then they order it.im sure sm1 will for a extra couple of quid or a invite or some cookies.:-)

[Sanka113]

How exactly do you pay for it. Surely if you use your visa tied to your home address on the other side of the world there's clearly gonna be some suspicion occurring if not by visa by them and if they suspect something surely they'll cap the speeds like I've heard they do for non specific country users.


My one of my friends was able to this just fine. I'm working on this myself. SO hopefully we'll see what happens here soon.

[briand5379]

So how did he pay for it and how are you planning on paying for it.

[WhiteWizard20]

I'm not sure. I received 2 PMs of people offering me their OVH seedboxes. I told them that I'll think about it and let them know within a few days. I dunno how to pay in the OVH UK because they won't allow US residents to pay. I might just go with the cheapest Hosting-IE dedicated server. It must be FTP compatible and unlimited bandwidth. Some of the guys are trying to figure it out for me at IC.

[andra]

How exactly do you pay for it. Surely if you use your visa tied to your home address on the other side of the world there's clearly gonna be some suspicion occurring if not by visa by them and if they suspect something surely they'll cap the speeds like I've heard they do for non specific country users.


I can highly recomend the hosting-ie raptor 5. Thats what I use and easily up 150-200 GB a day if the torrents are good. Get speeds up to 11 mB/s on a vps!!. Average is around 7-8.

Hope this helps

Jon
I think you lucked out. I doubt the average vps sharing with 4 other people is gonna yield those kinds of results especially if they're doing the same thing. Those are the results you get with a dedicated line.


dont try ovh if you are not from the countrys that are allowed to order. They will check you payment and refund takes likte 1.5 month´s

[0110]

They will check you payment and refund takes likte 1.5 month´s

Not Much At all :lol:

[h1pp0]

There are people who do OVH reselling. If anyone on the boards knows any US resellers for the uk OVH site please PM me. Thanks!

[puckface]

Vectoral: slow
OVH: slow
Kimsufi: slow
Hosting-IE: fast (as long as you get a Rabtor+)

I am uploader at a couple places and this is what I have consistently noticed from people leeching and my own experiences.

Take it as you will.

[SgtMajor]

I'm not sure. I received 2 PMs of people offering me their OVH seedboxes. I told them that I'll think about it and let them know within a few days. I dunno how to pay in the OVH UK because they won't allow US residents to pay. I might just go with the cheapest Hosting-IE dedicated server. It must be FTP compatible and unlimited bandwidth. Some of the guys are trying to figure it out for me at IC.

If you get caught with OVH, you will get turned over, why take that chance?

Hosting.ie will do what you want, and without fear of it being tur5ned off, and it is FTP & unlimited BW, however, speeds are not as good as vectoral, but you can still do 3-4TB of traffic per month on busy sites with good torrents.

[briand5379]

One thing I've learned lately from someone I know who received a message from their customer service who asked about this is that you can get OVH but you have to go through ovh.com any other OVH site won't allow it.

[WhiteWizard20]

I'm not sure. I received 2 PMs of people offering me their OVH seedboxes. I told them that I'll think about it and let them know within a few days. I dunno how to pay in the OVH UK because they won't allow US residents to pay. I might just go with the cheapest Hosting-IE dedicated server. It must be FTP compatible and unlimited bandwidth. Some of the guys are trying to figure it out for me at IC.

If you get caught with OVH, you will get turned over, why take that chance?

Hosting.ie will do what you want, and without fear of it being tur5ned off, and it is FTP & unlimited BW, however, speeds are not as good as vectoral, but you can still do 3-4TB of traffic per month on busy sites with good torrents.

Thanks for the advice Sarge. :) I will go with a Hosting-IE Raptor. Should I go with dedicated or a vps? Do the upload speeds differ from the two? If I go with the dedicated ones, should I get the 256mb Ram, 60GB one or the 512mb ram, 2x160GB hard drive? The thing is, the setup fee looks pricy and I don't need 2 160GB hard drives. Just one would be plenty. Thanks again for your help.

[SgtMajor]

I would go for the 581 each & every time (min for 3 months though, not for anything less):

http://hosting-ie.com/content/view/34/75/

And if you can afford it, 1GB of RAM would vastly improve the box if you intend to use Windows, if not, follow naq's excellent guide on setting up a nix box, windows will run on 512mb but slowly, and it slows down everything else as well.

If costs are a major factor, get the Raptor 5 VPS, again not forgetting windows is a drain on small memory boxes.

If you only want 1 month worth of a box, then reply back and we'll find something better.

[WhiteWizard20]

So the one u mentioned is around $75/month USD. I can afford that, I'll be saving around $40/month from my Vectoral server and I will be using Windows Server Web Edition 2003. I'll try to order it this weekend. I will be using the box 4 more than 1 month, perhaps as long as I am torrenting.

[RoboFace]

Thanks, SgtMajor

I been reading a lot of seedbox review from FST.. and you were everywhere.. ^^

I used Vectoral for 1 month, 4TB bandwidth but used all in 2 weeks.. ^^

Few days ago I ordered one u recommend with upgrade ram from hosting-ie.. thanks to you..

Hope I get it soon.. ^^

[mr.Dman]

So the one u mentioned is around $75/month USD. I can afford that, I'll be saving around $40/month from my Vectoral server and I will be using Windows Server Web Edition 2003. I'll try to order it this weekend. I will be using the box 4 more than 1 month, perhaps as long as I am torrenting.

Go with the 581 as sarge suggested.
I did and I put FD6 on it I used Naqs guide
It's not hard to setup and I get 10 to 11 megs up and down total all day long:)
I have had one with windows and 512 meg ram and I did get disk overload trying to download fast.
With nix on this box It hasn't happened at all:)

[WhiteWizard20]

OK, ordered the Raptor 581. Windows Server Web Edition but I had to go with 512mb Ram (1GB Ram would be tight on my budget) and 3 months contract. Do you pay it all at once or do you pay monthly?

[briand5379]

Your looking at about $312 for 3 months and I believe it needs to be paid upfront.

[reno55]

So the one u mentioned is around $75/month USD. I can afford that, I'll be saving around $40/month from my Vectoral server and I will be using Windows Server Web Edition 2003. I'll try to order it this weekend. I will be using the box 4 more than 1 month, perhaps as long as I am torrenting.

Go with the 581 as sarge suggested.
I did and I put FD6 on it I used Naqs guide
It's not hard to setup and I get 10 to 11 megs up and down total all day long:)
I have had one with windows and 512 meg ram and I did get disk overload trying to download fast.
With nix on this box It hasn't happened at all:)



Can someone link Nqs configure guide for Linux?

[mr.Dman]

OK, ordered the Raptor 581. Windows Server Web Edition but I had to go with 512mb Ram (1GB Ram would be tight on my budget) and 3 months contract. Do you pay it all at once or do you pay monthly?
You pay one month at a time.
First month was 128.00 for setup fee and the price of the server
They will get you for taxes too.
I had mine in 5 days but they can be a lot longer to get it setup.

[SgtMajor]

Go with the 581 as sarge suggested.
I did and I put FD6 on it I used Naqs guide
It's not hard to setup and I get 10 to 11 megs up and down total all day long:)
I have had one with windows and 512 meg ram and I did get disk overload trying to download fast.
With nix on this box It hasn't happened at all:)



Can someone link Nqs configure guide for Linux?

Sure:

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-guides-and-tutorials-65/t-naqs-complete-setup-guide-linux-seedboxes-fedora-corecentosdebianubuntu-281331

Read it many times over and it all begins to make sense! :D

[WhiteWizard20]

OK, I finally got the server info. Now here's my question for setting it up. I am using a Mac Laptop using Leopard. The server should be running Windows Web Edition 2003. Is there a WebUI torrent client that works with Leopard? Basically I'd like to 'see' what I'm leeching/seeding through the webui on my Mac, then transfer the files I've downloaded to my Mac so I can transfer the files to my external hard drive, import the files to iTunes and put them on my iPod.

Is there a torrent client that has a WEBUI for Mac? May I somehow also transfer the files I've downloaded to my Mac? If there's no torrent client that has a WEBUI compatible for the Mac I might as well install boot camp, then run windows vista. Next I would download Parallels so I may run Windows and Mac at once. I hope no one gets confused with this, knows what I want to do and knows how to do it. Thanks again.

[naq]

OK, I finally got the server info. Now here's my question for setting it up. I am using a Mac Laptop using Leopard. The server should be running Windows Web Edition 2003. Is there a WebUI torrent client that works with Leopard? Basically I'd like to 'see' what I'm leeching/seeding through the webui on my Mac, then transfer the files I've downloaded to my Mac so I can transfer the files to my external hard drive, import the files to iTunes and put them on my iPod.

Is there a torrent client that has a WEBUI for Mac? May I somehow also transfer the files I've downloaded to my Mac? If there's no torrent client that has a WEBUI compatible for the Mac I might as well install boot camp, then run windows vista. Next I would download Parallels so I may run Windows and Mac at once. I hope no one gets confused with this, knows what I want to do and knows how to do it. Thanks again.


WebUI: just a web page, can be open with any browser (IE, Firefox, Safari)

Remote Desktop: http://connect.microsoft.com/macrdc This is a Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Mac OSX. Use it to connect to the actual desktop of your server.

Look in the guide's section for a tutorial on setting up a FTP Server on your Windows seedbox, then connect to it using a FTP Client on your Mac.

[WhiteWizard20]

OK, thanks. I downloaded that and I'm able to login. Then I noticed the hard drive was only 10GB instead of 160GB and the network speed did not seem like 100MB/s. I'll send them an email to see if they may fix it.

[singing_sol]

why not try european servers from france they are much cheaper and easy to use and yeah heavy speeds

[SgtMajor]

OK, thanks. I downloaded that and I'm able to login. Then I noticed the hard drive was only 10GB instead of 160GB and the network speed did not seem like 100MB/s. I'll send them an email to see if they may fix it.

You have to format the rest of the space, system management should sort you out.

Speed maybe shared, actually is shared - not maybe.

[WhiteWizard20]

Thanks Sgt Major. Found out how to do it. Now I just need to figure out how to set up the FileZilla Server and Filezilla for FTP, then I just need to do uTorrent WebUI and I should be all set. I can't seem to connect to the FileZilla Server though. Do I install the Filezilla Server on my seedbox and then install FileZilla on my Mac? I tried to install FileZilla Server on my seedbox but can't seem to get it to work. I was following the guide here at FST.

[SgtMajor]

So far - so good.

FZ server on seedbox - ensure you change the standard port number from 21 to something between 50000 & 55555, then add a user and then ensure to set the home directory for that user to where your torrents are downloaded to - the D Drive perhaps? Then give that user RWAD permission for the D Drive so you can delete directories from the FZ client (or any FTP client will do - doesn't have to be FZ just because you use FZ server)

FTP client (can be FZ - doesn't have to be) - ensure you use same user name & login exactly as you used in your user details on the server, and change the port from 21 to the one you selected, increase the number of connections to the server to 10 and you are (should be) ready to go.

[WhiteWizard20]

OK Sgt, I'll have to re-read your last post a few times before it makes sense. I'm a bit confused now. lol

[SgtMajor]

If something goes "whoosh" a bit, tell me to slow down and explain again.

But if you follow the tut and as you are setting it up read the post aboe, it will all fall into place.

[weenden]

try this one http://www.tzulo.com/

[WhiteWizard20]

Yeah, I'm using fatcat's tutorial found here:

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-guides-and-tutorials-65/t-setting-up-ftp-server-ssl-276623

Is that the correct guide that I should be following?

OK, I changed the port and I still cannot login to the FileZilla Server. Perhaps we can talk via msn?

[SgtMajor]

Well you don't need to worry about SSL as at yet, it's just another security feature you can do later.

Best thing is to just install the server & the client and get them talking so you at least have an understanding of what it is you are doing, SSL can follow later.

[WhiteWizard20]

Ok, I'm still re-reading through this. I still get the messege 'Error could not connect to this server' after I did a port foward for this.

Man I am getting frustrated with this. I'll go to bed so my head clears up and I can start fresh again tomorrow.

[WhiteWizard20]

Hey Sgt Major, how do you set the bigger drive as your main hard drive source? Thanks.

[SgtMajor]

Hey Sgt Major, how do you set the bigger drive as your main hard drive source? Thanks.

For downloading your torrents to you mean?

uTorrent - options/preferences/downloads = input your drive & directory

[WhiteWizard20]

Well, when I go on 'My Computer', right-click and click on 'Manage I get the Computer management box. I then go to disk management and I see three drives. 1st drive is 10GB which is the main one, a 2nd drive is 2GB and a 3rd drive is 147GB. How may I get the 147GB hard drive to be the main drive? The 10GB drive is my main one right now. When I tried to do the uTorrent downloads folder, I could only see the 10GB drive. I would like the torrent downloads to be on the 147GB hard drive. I hope that makes sense to you.

[mr.Dman]

Make a folder on the large drive then go to utorrent options, preferences
then downloads and then click the button on the right and find that folder for downloads.
Then all your files will go there.


Well after typing this I read sarges post he explained it to you already

sorry sarge

[SgtMajor]

Have you formatted the drive?

I suspect you haven't, so:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

How to create a new partition or a new logical drive
To create a new partition or logical drive on a basic disk:
1. In the Disk Management window, complete one of the following procedures, and then continue to step 2:
• To create a new partition, right-click unallocated space on the basic disk where you want to create the partition, and then click New Partition.
• To create a new logical drive in an extended partition, right-click free space on an extended partition where you want to create the logical drive, and then click New Logical Drive.
2. In the New Partition Wizard, click Next.
3. Click the type of partition that you want to create (either Primary partition, Extended partition, or Logical drive), and then click Next.
4. Specify the size of the partition in the Partition size in MB box, and then click Next.
5. Decide whether to manually assign a drive letter, let the system automatically enumerate the drive, or do not assign a drive letter to the new partition or logical drive, and then click Next.
6. Specify the formatting options you want to use by using one of the following procedures:
• If you do not want to format the partition, click Do not format this partition, and then click Next.
• If you want to format the partition, click Format this partition with the following settings, and then complete the following procedure in the Format dialog box:
a. Type a name for the volume in the Volume label box. This is an optional step.
b. Click the file system that you want to use in the File system box.

You can change the disk allocation unit size, and then specify whether to perform a quick format, or enable file and folder compression on NTFS volumes.
Click Next.

7. Confirm that the options that selected are correct, and then click Finish.
The new partition or logical drive is created and appears in the appropriate basic disk in the Disk Management window. If you chose to format the volume in step 6, the format process now starts.

Back to the top
How to format a basic volume
To format a partition, logical drive or basic volume:
1. In the Disk Management window, right-click the partition or logical drive that you want to format (or reformat), and then click Format.
2. In the Format dialog box, type a name for the volume in the Volume label box. This is an optional step.
3. Click the file system that you want to use in the File system box. If you want, you can also change the disk allocation unit size, specify whether you want to perform a quick format, or enable file and folder compression on NTFS volumes.
4. Click OK.
5. Click OK when you are prompted to format the volume. The format process starts.

[WhiteWizard20]

Do I want primary or extended edition in step #3?

[SgtMajor]

primary

[WhiteWizard20]

OK, so I now have a drive C of 10GB and a drive D of 139GB. Anything else or is that it for the formatting?

[SgtMajor]

Nope, & now you can save your torrents to Drive D.

[WhiteWizard20]

Thank-you for your help. Now I just got an email from their support saying my server has been upgraded for free to a 1GB Ram and an extra 160GB HDD. Can you give me a step by step setup for installing a FTP server? I suppose I should do that first before I install the FTP Client to transfer the files.

[mr.Dman]

Good for you on the upgrade!

They gave me the upgrade of ram but not the extra 160 gigs of hard drive

[WhiteWizard20]

I also need to try a WEBUI to work for my Mac now.

[SgtMajor]

Thank-you for your help. Now I just got an email from their support saying my server has been upgraded for free to a 1GB Ram and an extra 160GB HDD. Can you give me a step by step setup for installing a FTP server? I suppose I should do that first before I install the FTP Client to transfer the files.

Funny that, I had a real go at Max yesterday about pricing and what OVH & others were offering in comparison, I haven't had an offer of anything though! :D

You need to install FileZilla FTP server (or any FTP server you are familiar with) on your server, any client will connect to it.

[WhiteWizard20]

OK, do you have any guides or tutorials for setting up a FTP server on my seedbox and do you also know if uTorrent WebUI will work for my Mac? WebUI basically is a web browser so it should work, right?

[SgtMajor]

Just download the fliezilla ftp exe & run it. Leave it default and just click ok.

The things you change are later when you change the listening port and add a user, you can have a look here for a pictorial guide:

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/t260011.html

The only thing I would change is the listening port, change it to somewhere between 55555 & 65000.

Then add a single user, you (chose your username & password), set your home directory to Drive D, give yourself full control of all files & directories, RWDA (then you can delete a folder from within your FTP client).

Webui is FF specific, so you only need to run FF on your MAC, it does not work with safari or opera etc.

[WhiteWizard20]

I'm still having trouble with the FTP server and I am getting very frustrated. I got a few torrents seeding so I am happy with that. I'll try again tomorrow after work.

[SgtMajor]

Setting up or connecting?

[WhiteWizard20]

Both, I'll try again tomorrow.

[SgtMajor]

Make sure you change the listening port number of your FTP client to the same one as you selected on your server, that is the major error.

[WhiteWizard20]

When I try to connect to the FileZilla server on my seedbox it says 'Error - connection to the server lost.' Then it keeps on trying to reconnect. For the Filezilla client on my Mac I get the messege 'Could not connect to server.' I made sure the ports for both the FTP Server and FTP Client are the same.

[SgtMajor]

Did you set a home directory for that user you created?

[WhiteWizard20]

I don't think I remember doing that. Can you explain to me how to do that?

[SgtMajor]

Open up FLZ server interface
Click on the single user icon
Click on the shared folders
Click Add
Navigate to your torrents drive (D?)
Click ok
Tick all the boxes under files & directories
Tick Set as Home Dir
Click ok bottom left

try connecting

Might take a close down & restart of the FLZ server to get it going

[WhiteWizard20]

It seems I can't even open up the user interface. I'll post screenshots of what's happening on my server and my Mac if that's ok with you. Edit - I'll uninstall all of them and start again from scratch. Re-reading over this is helping me a little bit.

[SgtMajor]

Posting Mac SS won't help me :)

The same way you add a user is the same way you add the home dir, you can always do the edit users from the menu.

[WhiteWizard20]

OK, a friend suggested that I download serve-u. I downloaded it onto my server and everything ran smoothly. Then I downloaded Cyberduck for my Mac, got connected and I successfully transfered a file! Now I just need to get a uTorrent WebUI to work on my Mac.

[SgtMajor]

OK, a friend suggested that I download serve-u. I downloaded it onto my server and everything ran smoothly. Then I downloaded Cyberduck for my Mac, got connected and I successfully transfered a file! Now I just need to get a uTorrent WebUI to work on my Mac.

I thought Mac has FF?

I'm sure I have heard of other mac users using webui via FF.

[WhiteWizard20]

What does FF stand for?

[SgtMajor]

FireFox the web browser

[WhiteWizard20]

oh, like duh me. lol

[SgtMajor]

Follow the webui guide:

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-guides-and-tutorials-65/t-how-set-up-utorrents-webui-132202

[WhiteWizard20]

OK, got WebUI to work. Now it's time to get more invites and seed like crazy. Thanks for all of your help SgtMajor. I guess I might have to purchase serve-u later on.

[SgtMajor]

OK, got WebUI to work. Now it's time to get more invites and seed like crazy. Thanks for all of your help SgtMajor. I guess I might have to purchase serve-u later on.

Welcome.

No need to purchase, there is plenty of workarounds available :cool:

[Carlpb]

I would recemmend TitaniumTorrents seedbox hosting. I have been with them for about 2 weeks and I am very impressed. I have the unlimited package and I get regular speeds of 1.5mb/s and on highly seeded torrents I have seen over 3mb/s. I love the webui interface and they seems to be a very professional service.

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[Carlpb]

If you are looking at a ready to use seedbox, I would recommend TitaniumTorrents seedbox hosting. I have been with them for about 2 week and regularly see speeds of 1.5mb/s in both directions and on well seeded torrents I have seen speeds over 3mb/s. Good professional service by people who know what is going on. Check them out.

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[Sanka113]

^^^ Lol, it sounds like he works for them.... 1.5mbs is about the speed that fios users get both ways. It's not very fast as seedboxs are concerned. I haven't looked at our site , so it could be a good value for someone looking for something a little better than their home connection

[lanesfer]

I'm thinking on get a Dedic Raptor Pro Lin 774 for share with another friend. How many bandwith do I expect using that server ? is it alright to share with a friend ? how many IP address do I get ?

thanks in advance.