Feral Hosting

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Originally Posted by SkyW

how hard is this to setup? For someone with no linux knowledge,... I see software is automatically installed, does that mean even with no linux knowledge one should be able to use torrents?

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setting up is not difficult... after the software that you clicked is installed, you will find the link and information that you'll need to access the app that you installed (e.g. after rutorrent is installed, a link to the webui is provided together with your username and password).

a little knowledge in computing will help but i don't see a necessity for someone to have knowledge in linux unless you plan on using SSH...
besides, the website has a bunch of how-to's that you can follow like how to access your files through a web browser, how to setup rapidleech, etc...

and if everything else fails, you can reach their support team through their IRC channel or by getting a support ticket (though i would recommend using the former)...

i like to try this..but no slot available everytime i check.. :(
i'm not familiar with twiter. too bad :(

but how the speed? look like they have many user shared on 1 server..
isnt it going to slow the speed?

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Originally Posted by HongLeong

i like to try this..but no slot available everytime i check.. :(
i'm not familiar with twiter. too bad :(

but how the speed? look like they have many user shared on 1 server..
isnt it going to slow the speed?

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you might want to checkout their 'old' slots since they always are available most of the time....
i'm using a shared server with 3 other users besides me... speed's not an issue even if there are 3 other users occupying the server that i'm using but then again that's just my opinion...

ok i misunderstanding..the one which not available is bytesized hosting not feral.

are you using Neon on feral? seems like very good deal...

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Originally Posted by HongLeong

ok i misunderstanding..the one which not available is bytesized hosting not feral.

are you using Neon on feral? seems like very good deal...

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I'm on a tight budget so I only got a Speed Slot... External traffic is still unlimited but I save 5GBP compared to Neon.
But Neon is a good deal by itself since you'll have more than 4x the HDD space to use compared to Speed... that is, if you don't mind the 5GBP difference.

The specs of the server they use for the 101Mbps slots is:
Some quad xeon
8GB ram
11x1TB hdd
Gbit NIC, with iptables being used to limit each user to 101Mbps (so it won't help to just run multiple torrent clients, they limit PER USER)
2-6 users per HDD, average of 30 users per server.

Overall the speed sucks compared to their old/discontinued plans, BUT you get a tonne more space. I never saw more than 5MB/s in either direction, the load on the server was just too high (lack of RAM, 30 users 8GB is too little). Apart from that, had a small issue with setup, had to manually make a ticket for Joshua/Lemon to fix it, but shit happens it was fixed in 24 hours.

For speed I'd definitely recommend other providers, but if you just want to seed 2-3MB/s (6TB a month roughly) then it might work. Of course, you can also get OVH based services that are unmetered with far less users per server, so depends if you want the space or not.

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Originally Posted by Thelen

The specs of the server they use for the 101Mbps slots is:
Some quad xeon
8GB ram
11x1TB hdd
Gbit NIC, with iptables being used to limit each user to 101Mbps (so it won't help to just run multiple torrent clients, they limit PER USER)
2-6 users per HDD, average of 30 users per server.

Overall the speed sucks compared to their old/discontinued plans, BUT you get a tonne more space. I never saw more than 5MB/s in either direction, the load on the server was just too high (lack of RAM, 30 users 8GB is too little). Apart from that, had a small issue with setup, had to manually make a ticket for Joshua/Lemon to fix it, but shit happens it was fixed in 24 hours.

For speed I'd definitely recommend other providers, but if you just want to seed 2-3MB/s (6TB a month roughly) then it might work. Of course, you can also get OVH based services that are unmetered with far less users per server, so depends if you want the space or not.

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Thanks for the insights dude, I was actually thinking of trying out the Neon slot after my current one expires since I always run out of HDD space but with the info that you gave, I think I'm better off staying with my current plan. I'd rather go with speed over a large disk space for a shared speedbox.

if you want to test a feral seedbox come check me out wolfseed.com chat or on the forum for more info :)

It is still an OK slot, it just isn't that great if you want super speed. IE, you'll need to use the disk space and keep torrents active, vs seeding for a few hours.

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Originally Posted by Thelen

It is still an OK slot, it just isn't that great if you want super speed. IE, you'll need to use the disk space and keep torrents active, vs seeding for a few hours.

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seeding torrents on my end is a different story since even though i remove the files that i'm seeding from the seedbox (torrents in my seedbox usually lasts around 1-2 weeks before i remove them to free up space), i continue to seed it on my local machine, though the peers that will be connected to me after that will not get much since my ISP's upload speed is crappy.

by the way, do you have an idea how many users are sharing the server used for the Speed slot plan?