Hi people! I have been pirating for myself for over 30 years now, and with the ever growing size of warez and the laughable upstream limit my ISP has, i have come to the point where it's not practical to maintain a 1:1 ratio for all torrents anymore - my active torrent list keeps growing beyond practical limits, and i'm someone who wants to keep sharing things for the people after me, esp. torrents with low amounts of seeds.

I'm pretty sure that i know more than i think i do, but i would be happy about a few pointers to get started with a seedbox. i have beginner linux skills, advanced user skills, and not shy of reading manuals on how to get things to work. i have not tinkered with docker much yet, but i'm willing to learn.

Edit: From what i've learned and seen i tend towards an dedicated server since i might want to host other services for myself too, so suggestions for what hoster to look at are welcome!

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[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://whatbox.ca/ has been decent for me so far.

They have wiki guides for everything.

[–] pirat@lemmy.studio 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

whatbox is awesome and their support team is top notch.

lots you can do with their system.

[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Like fuck me but I was on the fence until I saw they had step by step guides for literally everything. How dare you accuse me of being a geriatric incompetent apple fan, now shut up and take my money.

AND THEIR GUIDES ARE DYNAMIC: "look for server input box on the FTP client. Here is your specific server ip that you'll want to put in"

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're paying for a seedbox you can either get a vps (Linux VM) and do it yourself or just pay for the rutorrent web interface. I use to use dediseedbox.com awhile ago and had no complaints. My suggestion is to just have whatever provider host it so you don't have to use docker or anything.

If you want to do it yourself, then docker is the way to go and you should probably get a VPN on top of that so your traffic is mixed with other people. A dedicated server or VPS means you get your own IP and it can be linked to you.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

thanks for the info! I'm already covered on the VPN front incl port forwarding at least, opsec is a thing for me since the music industry started sending out love letters to napster users in europe :-)

i'd rather do it myself, since i want to learn as much as possible, including setting up an -arr stack. what hoster is performant and not too expensive?

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

I selfhost everything I use, including the *arr stack. I do have a VPS with hetzner.com and they're pretty good but I wouldn't personally host torrent or *arr with them. If you want someone else to host I'd suggest doing the research and finding something that works for you. My only experience is 5+ years ago with dediseedbox.com so YMMV if you choose them. They do have a cheap-ish VPS.

I think Docker is the way to go either on a VPS or on your own box. If you like a webUI for it use https://www.portainer.io/.

If you do go with docker be very careful about what ports you expose, you can easily open up everything publicly so be sure to double check and bind almost everything to 127.0.0.1.

If you have any specific questions I'd be happy to help.

[–] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I use ultraseedbox, and it's very user friendly. It has a portal where you can install a few different kinds of software and torrent clients to your server. I use deluge with them, and have it tied to Medusa so it downloads all my shows automatically.

Edit, it also has many/most of the *arr programs if you're looking to set that up