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You are about half safe.

If you wanna be truly safe as you can be, do the following:

1) Use tor for this next step #2 2) Sign-up for a VPN that accepts bitcoin and Anonymous email account. Also ensure no logging policy. I recommend highly ProtonVPN. 3) Connect to the VPN and use tor over the VPN to sign up for a seedbox provider that accepts bitcoin and is okay with using fake info OR email only and use a disposable email for this. I recommend for that. One such seedbox provider I know for sure of will allow this and accepts bitcoin is feralhosting. 4) do not download direct from old seedbox to this. Always connect to it over VPN. From old seedbox export the .torrent and add it to new seedbox and let it download that way to avoid a direct link. 5) delete all files from old seedbox, then cancel it, and enjoy your new anonymous seedbox that is as secure as possible. Always always connect to it only over the VPN. Always when paying the VPN bill, connect over the VPN and tor again.

Of course, this is overkill for the paranoid, but for those that ask these questions like your wife, maybe doing so will make her feel much better.

I don't see why any seedbox provider would put their neck on the line for you when they receive an abuse complaint. I think Rapidseedbox just sells slots on servers rented from OVH and Leaseweb and have to respond to DMCA Abuse Complaints in a timely fashion. If you plan on continuing using Public Trackers, probably use a provider like , Chmuranet, etc that have their own infrastructure and wouldn't bother you over DMCA complaints.

Sorry to hear about that. Hetzner is pretty famous for rejecting orders (look on LET for many examples). They explain why they verify and still reject so many orders here. The entire thread is worth a read. Is Hetzner doing the right thing by rejecting so many applications? I don't know, but it seems that their business is far from going down because of it.

I see where you are coming from and how frustrated you are, but I disagree with your reasons to avoid Hetzner, in particular:

> Do not trust Heztner.

Because they reject many signups? This makes them more trustable, if any.

> Do not put your data in Heztner.

Nothing to do with how they deal with signups.

> You never know when and what will offend them,and they will cancel your account for no reason.

They have refused your signup. They did not purge your data as there was no data to begin with.

They never cancel accounts for no reason. If any, they won't tell you why. Most providers keep the right to do so, actually. But with them Germans, they are pretty clear to state their rules: https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/agb follow them and they will never delete your account.

There are a few options:

• Plex - www.plex.tv will allow you to host all of your media
• Air Video Server - http://www.inmethod.com/forum/posts/list/1856.page will allow you to stream and transcode your media to your iphone - no jailbreak required
• Infuse - http://firecore.com/infuse has a lot of support for different media types and you can mount your ftp / sftp share inside the app

Hope these help

Unless you can physically audit that privacy policy by visiting the VPN provider and verifying yourself, it's effectively worthless. Scam VPN sites know that "we don't keep logs!" is a selling point and will proudly display that promise even though they have no intention of keeping it.

That's the flip side of the "just use a VPN!" conventional wisdom these days—you have to trust the VPN provider. You don't get to hide from your ISP without price or consequence; you're simply shifting trust over to the VPN company.

Your best bet is to roll your own VPN in a provider that doesn't typically share info with the US and which has good privacy laws, exactly as /u/Touuqe suggests—though even in that case you're still stuck trusting the hosting company, since using a server there as an endpoint means the hosting company's routers will have the same visibility into what you're doing as your ISP would sans VPN.

Your second-best bet is to do your own extensive research and not rely on recommendation sites. Most VPN recommendation sites don't give a shit about providing honest recommendations and instead are incentivized by referral links—they want you to click through and sign up for something so they can get a kickback.

No one has your back in this search. You can't trust recommendation sites and you can't trust the VPN providers themselves. Grassroots recommenders of VPNs will often also be motivated by referral links and not by truth.

Your only real option in selecting a commercial VPN provider is to find someone you deeply trust and solicit their recommendation. You will often see Mullvad pop up as a solid recommendation, for example, because of an oblique recommendation by security researcher Brian Krebs. It's also popular with the hackernews crowd.

tl;dr - good fucking luck.

Have you asked Feral to assign your slots their own IP addresses? It's pretty well known that IPT has a tracker bug when more than one client with the same IP address tries to connect to a swarm. Open a support ticket with Feral and ask to be assigned unique IP addresses for your slots in order to use IPT if you haven't done so yet.

There is no free lunch... Unlimited 10Gbps lines cost an arm and a leg! Feral runs their own NL network with their own peering agreements so they can offer unlimited. Seedhost is on Leaseweb so they have to cap your transfer to keep prices in line. is also in a NL Datacenter (i3D I believe) so they need to cap as well.

Honestly, for what you are paying now you could get a dedicated 2Gbps box from /u/Andy10gbit that would perform just as well as the shared 10/20Gbps servers. He can quote you on a 10Gbps server also.

Have you considered doing some budget war of the cheapest options out there? (i.e Scaleway's 2.99€ ARM server alongside the €5.99 online.net SC Gen2 and a third one)

I'm really into all the budget options out there. They usually provide great value because of the low price. I can also donate a Scaleway server if you need one. Either with their Torrent template or a fresh one, whichever you prefer, if they have any available

That isn't packet loss because it isn't continuing through the rest of the route. Take a look at Linode's MTR guide to learn a bit more about route troubleshooting.

What you could do is setup Syncthing on your local pc and seedbox.

You can then setup a folder called 'transfer' where you place files that you want synced to your local pc. It will continue whenever internet is available.

Heya!

I think my services might fit the bill. I support 1-click installs, and so far I'm really proud of the reviews I got here on Reddit and on Trustpilot!

If you have any more specific questions let me know! :)

I would suggest not using the voting algorithm as a measure for anything. Votes can be manipulated easily, with bots or brigading, and the anti-bot feature makes votes fuzzy as well after 24h a post or comment is made (i.e. your vote actually doesn't count).

I've seen new users follow the Recommendation Form rule, which is good enough in my honest opinion. Besides making the providers/resellers a focal point of this subreddit is not really a good idea either.

Besides you missed . Similarly new providers pop up every week, and old ones may fall off in the future in terms of service quality after being mass up-voted.

And I see you took a minute before you posted PM :D

PS. Moved to under comments on request

> We don't log anything: Traffic, IP addresses, bandwidth usage, server activity.

You say this, but in a previous post you said you will crack down on 'abusers' of the slice. I would be more curious about how you go about finding out who is abusing/taking advantage of the server if you don't log a single thing.

I work for a security company and I can tell you whenever I hear the "we don't log anything" line - its complete bullshit. There are always logs littered everywhere, unless you're somehow doing an automated run where you symlink /var/log -> /dev/null. Even this is a dubious 'non-log' practice at best.

While I believe you may not really 'take' much information in, unless you provide a security audit on your servers your anti-log line is about as bullshit as any VPN providers who claim 'they don't like jk jk we really do and we will hand them over to the authorities'.

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>"The Hide My Ass VPN service is run by a bunch of hypocrites," said Jacob Appelbaum, a core member of the Tor project, in a Twitter update. "They support revolution and circumvention when it suits their business image."

>In updates to its original blog posts, HideMyAss defended its stance on this point, arguing that it simply complies with UK law. It denied acting as a pawn at the behest of the Feds.

Unless Chmuranet and other providers start providing security audits on their servers to see what is actually being logged versus their claims, take it with the biggest fucking table spoon of salt ever. I have done so many security pen testing on these seedbox providers and they are universally a joke.

Your security / anonymity is not protected or taking seriously.

Comcast is totally despicable. I've been grappling with this peering issue as you have for a long time. In years past with Feral and Cogent and now with Whatbox. The issue is more complex than "use lftp" or "use FTPS". With any of those solutions I can only eek out about 10mbps give or take at best. I haven't found a VPN that beats that and I've tried Digital Ocean, Express VPN and VyprVPN. The fact is I pay for and receive 160mbps from Comcast but that number only posts when using the speed test on Comcast's own network.

With this latest "update" by Comcast, I hate to say it but they've kind of defeated me. I'm using Comcast so obviously I have no other choices for ISP despite living in a city with one million people. I've shopped around other seedbox providers and can't pull any decent sort of speed test. I'm totally open to any new seedbox provider if the speed test posts even a little more half of my 160mbps pipe. In the meantime, I'll stay with Whatbox and keep filing complaints with the FCC for every month this goes on. Wake me up when this is all over.

Well, all consumers are like that - they want the maximum level of service by the least amount of money. It's laughable sometimes, as some users are paying €2 or €3 a month and they come here and complain about "slow support", etc.

But, returning to your original question, what do you define as "good support"?

Fast replies to tickets? Polite support staff? Knowledgeable support staff?

I mean some users are, but the majority are not. The problem is, as I've said in the beginning, the are not willing to pay for it but they expect it anyway...

The users who are willing to pay for support, subscribe expensive services like , Whatbox and so on (although being expensive is subjective, and Whatbox are indeed more expensive than the competition).

And when you say that is worth paying "extra couple dollars a month", it depends on how much more... 5 euros? 10 euros? How much more are you talking about?

Regards.

Bytesized and both have managed boxes with Plex. Chmuranet have VPSs (as far as I'm aware) and will install Plex for you if you ask. Bytesized and Chmuranet are full Plex servers. offer a shared server.

Full transparancy; I run Bytesized. (and I really wish the mods would wake up and give me a flair so I don't have to type it whenever I recommend stuff)

The thread that told me about it : https://www.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/5zs46p/routing_around_shitty_seedbox_peering_with/

The page that I think hold the answer to do it : https://quickbox.io/wiki/set-up-a-cdn-for-plex-with-cloudflare-nginx/

At Bytesized I use a script to run Filebot after each download. Filebot will extract content, and then symlink (shortcut) the files to the media folder properly named so Plex can find it.

You can find a good starting point for such behaviour on this Filebot forums post

Last time I checked had the cheapest plex box, €12/m. They also support public trackers and have 3,9TB HDD.

Other 'cheap' Plex box starting prices from other providers. Other features you require may or may not be supported.

(€13,45/m)

(€13,95/m)

(€14/m)

(€14,95/m)

(€14,95/m)

($15/m)

($15,95/m)

>how much a budget seedbox costs

€5-6/m

Obviously you can go cheaper (ie. regular VPS/baremetal) but you need to do everything yourself.

>how much one with a media player costs

If someone can live with Kodi, whatever the budget one costs since Kodi can use FTP as a source.

>how much one with like 8+tb storage costs

8TB starts at like €20-30 I think.

> I'm not saying cheap (i.e. <15$ p/m) services don't offer Plex... I just haven't seen it.

(€12/m)

(€13,45/m)

(€13,95/m)

(€14/m)

(€14,95/m)

(€14,95/m)

($15/m)

($15,95/m)

/u/RepDynasty, some other Plex boxes if you want to go little over your budget. Didn't look at the other features the boxes had, just that they had Plex.

. Most of this is covered in the wiki. This will run on a fresh Debian 10 or Ubuntu Server (or not Server) install. The docs have a considerable amount of info that should be able to guide you through getting setup. You can run this all on one box. You may want to look into a VPN for your torrent client. You might have luck with Mullvad and port forwarding + a docker container with your torrent client if you’re trying to hide your IP.

Your application stack would be like:

• qBittorrent - Torrent Client
• Nginx - Reverse proxy (allows to serve on a domain or IP like a normal Website)
• Panel - Dashboard
• Sonarr - Automates TV
• Radarr - Automates Movies
• Plex or Jellyfin - Media Server

If you wanted to go the Docker route, https://cloudbox.works should configure everything, but imho is harder to manage because you’d be learning docker, ansible, and it only runs on Ubuntu installs iirc.

Went through a ton of audio players too, I'll second Listen Audiobook player, but my personal favourite is Smart AudioBook Player

Far from that actually...

You have several large providers with many users.

Feral, UltraSeedBox, , , whatbox and a whole host of other small and mid-size providers.

That doesn't even take into account those on dedicated servers.

Now if Leaseweb, NForce and the other NL based data centers were taken out then it might be an issue!

I have used for years without problem. Use a decent VPN provider like , Tutanota for email, crypto or cash based prepaid cards, observe sensible opsec.

Uploading large amounts of naughty things & live in the enslaved west? You're toast.

revamped their Plex implementation last week. Now everyone get it's own Plex server. However, I got this in a support email reply:

>If you need three streams concurrently the only option is to go with one of our bigger slots (e.g. Zombie Box) and submit a request ticket so we can increase the CPU allocation of the seedbox. However, if you do not use transcoding, then you will probably be able to stream without issues with even our smallest plan.

>Yes, that is right, we are going to update this today. Before, we used a shared plex server, so the users did not have administration access on the server, but they could use the full processing power of the server, but could only have 2 account connected on it. Since 2 days ago, all users can have a dedicated plex server, with administration access on it, in order to configure it any way they want. However the plex server has limited cpu power, depending on the plan. As bigger the plan, the bigger the cpu allotment.

The box from Feral is back in business! It started working late last evening and I put right back to work on another test. Support responded overnight (didn't see it before I posted) and reached the same basic conclusion I did: Saturated Disk IO resulting in slow performance. They claim to have made some changes to improve things and sure enough the box has hummed along nicely ever since.

I think this illustrates one of the benefits to picking a managed solution. I had a response to my support ticket within 9 hours and the box was only actually 'down' for ~3 hours. I've been lucky that I haven't had to report an issue for a dedicated server, however I suspect it wouldn't be this easy.

This awesome community has donated several servers (from members, not providers) and since Feral is working again I'm including them in my upcoming test:

• FeralHosting Helium (Rented by me)
• Whatbox SSD Beta Box (300GB SSD) (Donated by member, not provider)
• Seedhost SB3 (Donated by member, not provider)
• Vampire Box (Donated by member, not provider)

... should be a fun one!

Hello! Please consider seeding Tails. Tails is a Linux distro built for privacy, encryption and anonymity, all of which are under attack in some parts of the world. They work closely with the TOR project and really have an amazing project.

https://tails.boum.org/

TL;DR Send your bitcoins from you coinbase wallet to one pc based bitcoin wallet and then from that first pc based bitcoin wallet to the a second pc based bitcoin wallet. This should sufficiently anonymise any bitcoins to make them untraceable.

Anonymous bitcoin - First buy in your real name as it prevents fraud. Then transfer to Coinbase wallet to a pc based bticoin wallet. I use electrum because it doesn't need the entire block chain to work and hence is a small download. Electrum is not recommended for large amounts or long term term storage but it is good for what we want here. That really should be enough to anonymise the coins so that they are no longer "in your real name" and you can claim the payment went to "someone else" and there is very little probability of someone tracing it to you. However if you are more paranoid you can then send them from your first electrum wallet to a second electrum wallet. Personally I use a virtual machine for my two wallets but you can also use a second partition or second machine. I do all this from behind a VPN for each Virtual Machine.

Once you have done this don't be so stupid to use your anonymous electrum wallets to pay for things in your real name.

Are you paying VAT? If not you can actually just grab another Hetzner auction box.

4x 4 TB Enterprise

€ 32.77 / month

In addition to managed/unmanaged issues raised by u/BannedNotBanned.

• Semi-anonymous payment (cryptocurrencies and identity verification): Hetzner no, Pulsedmedia yes
• Public trackers: Hetzner no, Pulsedmedia yes
• Anything movie related (Plex, Radarr*, Sonarr*, ..): Hetzner yes, Pulsedmedia no
• Root: Hetzner yes, Pulsedmedia no

> In performance and peering.

You need to specify performance of what and peering to what. Generally speaking, Hetzner has dedicated hardware resources that seem higher than what you get shared by Pulsedmedia.

Peering to your home: depends where you live.

Peering to other seedboxes in Europe: Hetzner is not that bad actually. Just not as good as servers in NL and F. For example, Hetzner peers decently with Leaseweb. See their data centers page for more information. I have no idea regarding Pulsedmedia.

* You should still be able to use Radarr and Sonarr on another box/at home, with r(u)torrent on Pulsedmedia handling downloads/uploads

Pretty sure that server has a 1Gbps Public NIC and 10Gbps Vrack NIC.

According to this page https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/details-servers-range-HOST-id-2016-HOST-32H.xml

Bandwidth 250 Mbps
Traffic Unlimited
Burst 1 Gbps

Network card vRack 1x 10 Gbps - 3Gbps guaranteed bandwidth

Vrack is useful if say for example you have 2 Host 32-H servers from OVH, and you want to exchange data between the two servers a lot, you can activate Vrack on both servers, and it will give you 10Gbit connectivity between the 2 servers of which 3Gbit bandwidth is guaranteed at any time. If you don't use Vrack, then the connectivity between the two servers is over the public 1Gbit interface.

Also OVH no longer guarantees full OVH to OVH bandwidth after the SP-64-D fiasco. So after the burst period, if your server gets capped to 250Mbit upload, your internal OVH to OVH bandwidth could get capped to 250Mbit as well. If it does, you'd just have to deal with it. If you're lucky, it'll stay at full 1Gbit.

There are addons for rutorrent for this? Can you share some info?

I installed it on my seedboxes..it was pretty simple..like done in 2 minutes. edit: Removing my link cause /u/leonmorlando has a better link.

I'm looking at using https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/ to encrypt it. Looking at the security and performance numbers has sold me on it. https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/comparison/

If you have an android device, then you can get Transdroid. I would recommend looking for seedboxes which can be used with transdroid or another similar app, which from their Features page, seems like most providers.

I use btsync for this, you can install it on your Seedbox, laptop, and desktop. The laptop will automatically download files from your Seedbox as they appear, and also send to your desktop when powered up. Works great http://www.bittorrent.com/sync

I imagine that you can access it, right?

If you can, add it to your drive (right click on folder -> add to my drive), after that, you can download it directly for your PC.

I recommend rclone, check their website https://rclone.org

It depends of your personal use. If you are only into seeding go for rTorrent (ruTorrent is just a web interface). If you are going to be only adding torrents try Transmission.

Moreover, there are a few key differences to be aware of (found this on another relatable thread):

• Labels: Transmission doesn't have label functionality at all, rTorrent lets you set several custom fields for each torrent (ruTorrent reads "custom1" as the label)
• Plugins: Transmission doesn't have any, ruTorrent has tons. Things like RSS downloading and autodl-irssi are harder to get working with Transmission.
• Memory consumption: Both Transmission and rTorrent have small memory footprints, but ruTorrent can take up a good bit if you have thousands of torrents.
• RPC interface: If you like to write your own scripts to control your client, this is pretty important. rTorrent uses a largely undocumented XMLRPC interface which can be hard to use. Transmission uses a fully documented JSON RPC interface which is much easier to use.
• Desktop interface: This is a matter of preference. I prefer desktop interfaces (TransGUI, Deluge) to web interfaces.
• Smartphone interface: Transmission has multiple Android apps which can be used to control it remotely. There's Transdrone that is supported on rTorrent, but as far as I know, it doesn't work anymore. You can try it for yourself.

Oh well, this was bound to happen with their new Unmetered* (with an asterisk) offering. You didn't mention which plan you're on, so I'm going to assume you were on the cheapest plan, and for that, 30TB upload traffic is a lot. If you want that kind of usage at that price point, is not the right provider for you. You should be looking at something like Feralhosting. Since you had a renewal 3 days ago, you should have taken the refund. They are not entitled to give you a refund after the first week of your service. They clearly have it written on the site, that if you rape their service, they will switch you to the volume network, and nobody knows how shit that can be.

In my opinion, just long term seed for the rest of the month to avoid your HnRs. You dont need speed to avoid HnRs. At the end of the month, move to Feral and rape their Helium slots without any repercussions.

I can only speak of the few I have tried recently. And these are FAR from scientific and won't correlate with what you may or may not experience with actual torrents but do give you an idea of what to expect with the offerings available.

On an unmetered NForce Ultraseedbox 20Gbps plan with a dedicated 8TB disk I'm seeing bursts to 200mbps. This box has 180+ users on it and runs 65 Euro per month. Disk I/O averages around 170 MB/s with . All of the user disks are 7200 rpm HGST models. They appear to place at least 4-6 users on each drive. Looking at Ultraseedbox's blog this server was upgraded with new drives a few months back.

This is pretty much the cookie cutter model every big provider goes with now, be it Seedhost, Feral, etc...

On an unmetered NForce Chmuranet 10GBps Vixen plan with 4TB of raid-50 storage I'm seeing bursts to 300Mbps. This server maxes out at 16 users for 65 Euro per month and the disk I/O averages around 360 MB/s using .

I really wouldn't call it false advertising. Customers need to understand that actual performance is going to be from a mix of different parameters and that it's the combination of those that determine the capabilities of the box.

If you are only using public trackers, you can save a lot of money by using a VPN. A seedbox is best used for mainting ratio on private trackers, not that great for public trackers. If I were you, I would pick up a cheap VPN that does not keep logs of their users. I use NordVPN.

I actually have a seedboxbay one. the FTP is abysmally slow, even with LFTP. If you live in the EU it might be okay, but for $5 a month, it's not really worth it unless you only plan on using it for music. I would recommend waiting for Feralhosting slots to come back. But my top choices so far (from personally top rated) , Feralhosting and T4K.

you downloading childporn or what? Like, chill out..Downloading copyrighted movies/games/software/whatever to is not a crime. Means, you wont go to jail for it. Just use a VPN except for PIA, since they are located in the US. Checkout AirVPN if u want.

My suggestion would be or Seedhost if you have already tried Bytesized, and it didn't work out for you. Both of the above providers are pretty stellar with great hardware which would handle 4 transcodes no problem.

Have you tried a few of the plans that allow for 7 day money back refunds?

Chmuranet

seedhost

If those all fail maybe a SYS slot from OVH would do the trick. You would be maxing the connection cap at SYS but it would be close to your desired performance.

Check out:

FeralHosting requires you to read a little bit in the wiki if you are going to use autodl-irssi and other plugins, but they have great speeds for their seedboxes.
- Does not support Paypal. So either creditcard or bitcoin

have great speeds too. Here you do not know have to be that familiar with SSH as everything is managed via controlpanel - though I am stilling waiting for them to update rutorrent and plugins to the latest version (some plugins seems outdated) ((I have made them aware of this)).
- Does support PayPal

is also very simple and use friendly, the speed can not match and FeralHosting as you will not exceed 1Gbps on the seedboxes (actually some what below 1Gbps, at 95,6 MB/s).
- Does support Paypal

I suggest the convoluted route is that 1) You pay in bitcoins (use localbitcoins to somehow convert cash to bitcoins), 2) You use a service that accepts bitcoins and use a new email, and 3) You connect to your seedbox via a VPN. For what it's worth, Private Internet Access allows you to exchange gift cards into months of service.

To rip a dvd to avi use Handbrake, really straight forward provided your Xirvik slot has it installed.

Handbrake from command line.

Otherwise, bring it home, do it there, re-up it.

>9) Do you plan to use public trackers?
>
>99.5% private

If you can make this to 100%

1. OneProvider

CPU: Xeon L3426

RAM: 16 GB DDR3

Storage: 2× 2 TB (HDD SATA)

Bandwidth: 1Gbps Unmetered FUP

Price: 15 Euros / Month

1. Hetzner

CPU: Xeon E3-1246V3

RAM: 32 GB DDR3

Storage: 2 x2 TB (Enterprise HDD SATA)

Bandwidth: 1Gbps Unmetered

Price: 23.53 Euros / Month

10Gbit, high traffic usage, I can suggest u/Andy10gbit or Chmuranet. Chmura may not like you if you go super hard on your slot.

u/Andy10gbit recently posted a sale here https://redd.it/8rt1ro

You can check it out or try and contact him. I know u/jibrail18 has an OVH 10gbit unmetered server and he once posted he's able to push more than 1PB upload per month. I think his OVH server is something like this but with additional 2x480GB SSD https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/dedicated-servers/details-servers-range-INFRA-id-EG-128-S.xml

I'd suggest contacting Andy for his Nforce Class 1 offerings, they'd be more suitable for you.

Many people use Hetzner servers as their seedbox. Running a seedbox is fine as long as you use private trackers. If Hetzner gets a bunch of copyright notices because you use public trackers, they might not look too kindly on that (but that's true with most datacenters). On most of their auctioned servers, they have a 20TB bandwidth per month soft limit. After that limit, they throttle you down to 10Mbps. Despite their claims of unlimited bandwidth, I've heard that they really do not like people passing the 20TB limit. I'm not too knowledgeable about what they do if you pass it multiple times.

With Hetzner, the major end-user issue (at least for US customers) is peering. Your connection to their server might become quite slow during prime evening times due to congested peering between Hetzner and your ISP. In my case, the peering between Comcast/Hetzner has issues during 5PM-9PM PST on weekdays. I would go from my usual maxed out speed of 50Mbps down to about 15Mbps. I don't see this issue with OVH or Leaseweb. You can test out your connection to Hetzner and other servers using this site: https://www.nperf.com/en/

> Prefer just a regular debit card.

As said by others, never make purchases online with a debit card. Use a credit card as they have no fraud liability. If your credit sucks you can get a secured credit card through your bank. It will have plenty of credit for a seedbox purchase and won't charge any interest if you pay it off in time. Alternatively you could a service like Privacy.com to secure your debit card. Paypal would be another option if the provider supports it.

Why do you need qBittorrent support?

Are you asking for reporting of ratio related stuff for private trackers or do you need some automated way of collecting this information for your own use? I don't think there any Bittorrent clients that don't support private tracker based ratio stuff. Although ensuring DHT and peer exchange are disabled is important for correct ratio reporting.

Bandwidth volume measurements can count upload or upload and download; many providers have program based exclusions and some only count BitTorrent usage.

If you're looking for a quick and easy solution - install ubuntu server (no gui) and just install quickbox - it'll have all the download tools and even has OpenVPN supported right out of the box.

https://quickbox.io/

From their FAQ (http://faq.put.io/):

How much do you seed?

Here’s our current seeding policy: We stop seeding when the upload ratio is 1.00 for public trackers or when the torrent is inactive for 72 hours. (Whichever comes first.). For private trackers the seeding time and ratio changes with plans. You can see the current numbers on https://put.io/plans

I would not recommend using put.io as a seedbox just yet, because it might produce hit and runs. Sometimes we count 2.0 but the tracker counts less. We don’t know why.

What do you mean by pulling things of your seedbox? I assume you are talking about your torrents, since I think you don't have ssh access with that plan, am I right?

If so, why don't you use an FTP client like FileZilla? It's free, and you can connect to your seedbox using Explicit SSL (Auth TLS), which is secure.

If you do have SSH access, and you want to pull files from other areas of your server that you don't have FTP access to, you can always install WinSCP, and pull them using SFTP. Once again, WinSCP is free.

Regards.

>Will that server be suitable for hosting a store with a small amount of traffic as well as RuTorrent with several torrents downloading at the same time for most of the day?

Yes. You can host anything on that server unless its violated ToS.

>So are those the only operating systems you can have?

Nope. They have more than that OS avaiable in control panel.

> Will that allow me to unzip stuff easily like in cPanel?

Yes. Login to SSH and do whatever you want.

>Does SoYouStart allow that as well?

Yes. But you have to do that by yourself.

>How do I go about installing Rclone and RuTorrent on the server?

Rclone: Login to SSH and do the following step in this link https://rclone.org/install/

Rutorrent: Check the right side in this sub.

If you can't do it by yourself, contact Anyd10Gbit or Quickbox. They will do it for you with fees.

System Resource Usage

If 's system administration team determines that a customer's account is utilizing an unacceptable amount of system resources, may temporarily deactivate the account in question. If 's staff deems necessary, an eviction notice may be sent to the customer of an offending account providing them with ten (10) days in which to either upgrade to a dedicated server or locate a new provider. This only occurs in extreme cases.

will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Because of the nature of this provision, each account will be considered and analyzed individually.

And in cases where customer's support tickets get the owner so butthurt, they just terminate the account immediately.

I bet copy-paste'ing some site policy and giving some numbers how slow the volume traffic is, would've been much better option than to deal with this post and PayPal refund stuff.

EDIT: That usage and price compared to Seedhost, 30TB outgoing bandwidth 35€/month (and 4TB more storage), seems pretty reasonable.

1. No you're fine and 99% safe if you choose a European service.

2. Seedhost is pretty easy like any other shared seedbox host. They're just one of many. You'll generally have a dashboard with one click app installs and such.

3. They won't turn over your information for DMCA abuse notices, but if you're doing nasty stuff like CP or Spamming, they won't put their necks out on the line for you. If you're paying with crypto or prepaid cards, just sign up with fake details.

4. Check out Ultraseedbox (Nforce, Yisp), Feralhosting and (i3D). You can also check out Pulsedmedia, they had a sale going on a day or two ago.

My friends and I had switched to from Bytesized almost a month ago. We didn't mind Bytesized having been with the company for quite some time, yet their had been a few issues along the way with the most recent being the straw that broke the camels back (we also wanted to try something new too).

Thus, seedboxes have been fairly good. Speeds look better, nice selection of apps to play with including Plex. Documentation is severely lacking, although atleast the necessities are there (gotta find them via a link at the specific page); however, we handle ourselves alright with seedboxes anyway. It is a tad early to critique support since it hasn't been utilised, yet that's not too bad of a thing since setup was fast and smooth.

Price-wise, seedboxes is quite similar to Bytesize. Keep in mind we were only interested in the low-tier of specs since we aren't heavy users.

I do recall choosing seedboxes as our new provider due to price, features, yet most importantly, reputation. We found that ultraseedbox had unreliable reviews and reputation amongst the community. I don't have any links of what we read (especially that we read on many companies) since it was eons ago.

I know what I've shared isn't exhaustive, just hope it can help you determine what's best for your needs.

I would try I think they have a good peering with Australia Send an email to them to clarify. Also check out Bytesized Hosting and the test page which is located here , if you get a good speed you might want to go with them.

So far I've tried or still trying out : Evoseedboxes, Seedboxbay, , , and Feral.

• Evoseedboxes are great for non-hardcore torrenting, and handful of videos, I've used their non-plex ones and streamed via VLC just fine, however I can not justify paying $5-$7 for only 100-150GB of space and 2TB upload.

• Seedboxbay is pretty terrible imo for anything but music, since it's only a 100mbps connection, 100GB space. Will not pay $5 a month for it.

• is pretty amazing. I have the Gremlin plan. So far I have not even managed to cap out at 6TB upload monthly unless I try super hard and intentionally. Also, they provide a VPN with 13ms ping and can use about 80mps of my 200mps when I'm on it. Plex is highly stable. However, I have never been able to fully utilize beyond 2gpbs at any given time.

• Feral is great for maintaining ratio, best value per $ imo. Plex stream is really slow most of the time, probably because high user to server ratio. FTP transfer speeds are okay.

• T4K few days in already, so far speeds are amazing, and FTP transfer rates are phenomenal, support staff are interactive an friendly. Have had a few technical difficulties, however they were handled in a reasonable time, probably because I'm on their new box in Canada. I might move away from Feral and stick to T4K for my unmetered / non-plex box. It's $15 USD for a 900GB slice in Canada, vs Feral $10.50 (after conversion)

I'm still waiting for USB to finish their upgrade, I ordered a week ago so I've been waiting for a while, but support tickets have been answered relatively fast.

For my conclusion, depending on where you live, it's a good idea to have a Plex + metered box along with a high volume/ no-plex unmetered box.

Ditch the shitty providers you're with now. Get quality. Whatbox, Feral Hosting, Bytesized Hosting, Seedstuff, Seedhost, and . I can vouch for all of them. As for payment, all of them will accept Visa debit, and/or PayPal.

Don't skimp on a seedbox, you really do get what you pay for as jamiew0w said. If you're that tight on cash get a Seedhost SB Mini or SB 8. I was with Ultraseedbox with months and only after switching to Seedhost did I realize how much time and money I'd been wasting. Don't buy a cheap name box either, even if it's not cheap. Seedhost, Feral, Bytesized, and are all good.

Full disclosure I run Bytesized.

Both and I offer Plex (and we both host in Amsterdam, the Netherlands) but the way we do it differs a bit. invites you to a shared folder they create for you, this gives you less control to setup the Plex server to your liking. Bytesized gives you a full instance to play with.

However if you do not live in Europe both servers might not be able to give you full quality direct-streams so we might both not be a good fit for you.

You could go just for VPN, but it isn't very good idea. With seedbox, you use 100% of your home network for downloading, and the server is seeding for you, so you won't be kicked from private trackers/be a dick. Besides you're likely to have throttled uploading speeds on your own network, and reaching just a 1:1 ratio could be difficult.

But if you want just a VPN for some reason, check other providers (AirVPN and ItsHidden are looking good). I heard a lot of bad things about BTGuard (mostly about poor speed). Haven't used it myself though.

I find this comparable to the Amazon Snowmobile Service. Its literally a tractor trailer stuff full on hard drive servers. I forget the amount it holds but its crazy. There is someone out there that's rented on of these servers and the same goes for the snowmobile!

https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

I think this was the guide I used the first time I set it up. Since then I've tweaked my settings to find a solution that works. I'm a Windows guy so the toughest part for me was installing and scheduling the app to autostart when the seedbox is rebooted. Once it's up and running on your seedbox, you can easily configure it through the web interface.

I've used SyncThing on Feral, Whatbox and now use it as a part of the Quickbox deployment on my Kimsufi server. I've even chucked a copy on my parent's Plex server (on the other side of the world) and it works great.

The way I do it is use the "repeat" feature of lftp and change the rate limit. So night to morning hours when no one is using, I give it max bandwidth. For during the day, I have it trickle.

#!/bin/bash

REMOTE_DIR="/storage/rtorrent/Media" LOCAL_DIR="/storage/Media/" LOCKF="/tmp/lftp-mirror-get.lock"

echo "${0} Starting at $(date)"

trap "rm -f ${LOCKF}" SIGINT SIGTERM if [ -e "${LOCKF}" ]; then echo "*** ERROR: ${0} is already running...Exiting..." exit 1 else touch "${LOCKF}" lftp 192.168.1.50 -u username,password << EOF set ftp:ssl-allow false cd "${REMOTE_DIR}" set net:limit-rate 204800 repeat at 02:00 -- "set net:limit-rate 0" & repeat at 07:00 -- "set net:limit-rate 204800" & repeat 2m mirror --verbose --log=synctorrents.log --no-empty-dirs --Remove-source-files --use-pget-n=2 -c . "${LOCAL_DIR}" quit EOF echo "removing lock file" rm -f "${LOCKF}" trap - SIGINT SIGTERM echo "${0} Finished at $(date)" exit 0 fi

You can try cron to schedule like this: > -- run every 10 min from 2AM to 7 AM > -- e.g. cron: */10 2-7 * * *

There is also a new --Remove-source-dir option, but it seems to have a bug which traverses up and delete past the sync folder.

BTW - You can use this to background lftp jobs then attach back to them without using screen.

You probably need to run

znc --makeconf

Also see e.g.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-znc-an-irc-bouncer-on-an-ubuntu-vps

http://wiki.znc.in/Installation#Ubuntu

This is how you access the rTorrent interface directly, which has nothing to do with ruTorrent. ruTorrent is a separate GUI that interfaces with rTorrent and lives on a webserver.

If you have terminal access to your server, you can probably regain access to ruTorrent by resetting the auth credentials in the htaccess file.

The directory with your ruTorrent files is probably in ~/www/<vhost>/public_html/rutorrent

Some related reading: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-password-authentication-with-apache-on-ubuntu-14-04

It's not a limit of rutorrent, it's a limit of php behind rutorrent. Check here. https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/managing-site-performance-and-scalability/increase-upload-size-in-your-phpini

I have mine set to 80... Anything over 100 tends to fail tho, and you won't upload any more then the first 100

Edit: I increased mine because I had a ton of torrents to upload in the stopped state so I could force recheck them instead of playing fast and loose and maybe recking my ratio in a tracker...

The setup of OpenVPN Access Server is quite simple.......see: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/openvpn-access-server-centos

Or: https://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/docs/admin-guides/123-how-to-install-openvpn-as-software.html

Look for "sshfs". You'll be able to set up a remote directory that points on the server on which you want to send the data. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh

Go is not a scripting language. You need Go (Golang) to compile GDrive. Not to run it.

Grab a build here https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive. Unpack it and you're good to go. No need to compile and therefore no need to install Go.

If you need Go anyways, install it in your Home directory. Go here: https://golang.org/doc/install and scroll down to the section 'Installing to a custom location'.

Wanting to protect your privacy is normal and something I agree with. However what I've come to realise is that 99% of fraudulent payments are anonymous.

So if you can successfully make a payment via Visa / MasterCard then it is probably not as anonymous as you think it is. This is true of every merchant you use (not just Feral).

Contrast this with Bitcoin where no information (except that you explicitly type in and Feral asks for none) is passed to the merchant. Bitcoin definitely offers more privacy here.

If you can, Coinbase are the way to go: https://www.coinbase.com/what-is-bitcoin Second choice is Kraken: https://www.kraken.com/

Scaleway has this new NVMe server 1GB RAM, 25 GB SSD for 2 euro/month or 2.4 USD/Month, it is kind of meh for most people, but maybe for ultra cheap seedbox it is not a bad deal.

Check other products at https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/

I personally like "ARM64-2GB" cause it has double RAM, double disk, double Bandwidth speed for just 1 euro more per month

2GB RAM, 50 GB HardDisk and 200 Mbits/S at 3 euro/month

Not exactly a seed box per se, but you can get storage servers from Hetzner for pretty cheap and you can mount them however you’d like to your current device.

Here is a link to their storage box comparison.

Looks like it would be ~$12 a month. 10 TB of upload traffic. Unlimited download.

the hetzner ex lineup is a super amazing value, and for your use case, I think more appropriate, and a better deal than auction hetzner pricing...

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ex

The ex52-nvme or the ex62-nvme should easily handle your usage. You may even squeek by with a ex42-nvme - Just don't count on the igpu of the EX62 being utilized by plex just as of yet, due to linux kernel limitations.

May I also suggest cloudbox if you are a gdrive user as well. Good luck.

Usually, two types of networks are available from large vendors, Volume & Premium.

Here is Leaseweb's definition:

https://kb.leaseweb.com/display/KB/Network+types

OVH is more cagey about it:

Beyond the speed, what are the differences between the 3 bandwidth offers?

>With the Premium, Platinum and Ultimate offers, you benefit from the performance of the OVH network across ever-expanding geographical boundaries. Beyond the OVH infrastructure, you switch onto other provider networks so that you get the guaranteed speed for your chosen offer.

(from their FAQ: https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/faq.xml#choix-bp )

Generally premium network is a mix of three or more Tier 1 backbone carriers, and traffic is not aggregated. Volume on the other hand isn't premium, in Leaseweb's case, it has only 1x tier one carrier with switch port aggregation (traffic mixing).

Smaller vendors, like i3d don't have the luxury of having two different distinct networks, they generally just have their mix.

Hope that helps

https://www.ovh.com/us/about-us/datacenters.xml

"OVH data centers are situated outside the Patriot Act jurisdiction area"

https://www.ovh.com/us/news/articles/a891.the_patriot_act_10_years_of_uncertainty

OVH has a number of brands. Kimsufi is their bargain brand thats limited to 100mbps, they also operate SoYouStart which is their middle tier and of course they have OVH which is their premium line.

Their premium servers can be found on the website below - they are all on 1Gbps ports and have 1Gbps OVH to OVH connections (excluding Kimsufi/SoYouStart) however their base package only guarantees 250MB or 500MB connections to the rest of the internet: https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/

If you want 100% true 1Gbps access you can spend an extra $52.50 to unlock 1Gbps OVH -> Internet speeds: https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/guaranteed-bandwidth.xml

So, pick the cheapest server @ $70, and pay for the premium bandwidth upgrade for a total of $122.50/month. There are some resellers who have access to older hardware that can probably get you a better deal, but expect to still spend around $100/month.

Glad you loved the seedboxes, I might have some advise for you.

1 and 3: Consider setting up Plex. It supports streaming and transcoding on the fly so you wouldn't have to do any manual work. It seems PS3 support is possible there as well. It also allows multiple user accounts. Only thing that might be a problem is transcoding two streams at the same time depending on the VPS you have either 4 or 8 virtual cores and I'm not sure it's enough to handle on the fly encoding to two different clients.

2) Don't become to paranoid about securing your VPS. You are not a high priority target. The most important things are to disable root ssh access and just do sudo on a user account and I would suggest you disable password logins all together and use keys instead. Just pick secure passwords (LastPass / 1Password) for any services that do require a password. I think these are the most important things.

rsync -avz

Rsync automatically checks checksums data if it plans to copy a file, but it's not its "job" to ensure file integrity. Compare md5 hashes or something if you want to really make sure the data matches.

> use icons or a preset layout. I saw something about php, I have no idea what this is or if it is useful.

Have you tried h5ai? Demo

Look into privacy.com, they allow you to create throwaway credit card numbers. The great thing is you can use any name/address for the billing information, so whatever service you're using never receives your real name/address. I've used it for a few different services including feralhosting and its worked great.

You can also use plowshare https://github.com/mcrapet/plowshare. But it's also a command line tool.

My suggestion: learn to use the command line. It's quite useful for many small (and complex) tasks.

You could rent a dedicated server at Online: https://www.online.net/en/server-dedicated/start-2-m-sata then install Quickbox: https://quickbox.io/ You can buy service at Quickbox to install and have a lot of plugins. Don't rent a too small server especialy if you want to stream your medias with Plex or similar software.

If you didn't already install an OS to your server, you'll have to do that first through their site. They should provide you with an IP and login details. Log into your server with those details using ssh. Secure your server by adding a new sudo user, disabling remote root login, and installing fail2ban (basic minimum security). Install quickbox and follow the configuration there.

/u/Mooey provided an answer that was spot on, addressed your issue.

90% of the time Transdroid requires no set up on your server, all of the set-up is done on your fone. No Linux required. You do need some settings details if your seedbox is non-standard.

I think the problem here was your terse dismissive post: > Too hard to setup for me.

It wasn't, "Thanks for the pointer, I looked at Transdroid, and It looks like a PITA to set-up, are there any other options?"

Chmuranet is known for the support with our service, so I am sympathetic to the reasons you selected your provider (sorta required to be), but even we won't come over to your house and set up your phone.

1. Download and install the apk from the transdroid site. You may have to tell your phone third party apps are ok.

2. Open the App, go to settings, select add server

3. Name the config

4. Server type is based on the torrent client you are using on your seedbox, for example Deluge, RTorrent, or Transmission.

5. Enter your Hostname

6. Provide your login credentials to the web portal on your box

7. In advance settings select use SSL and accepts all certs.

8. If a standard set-up, select RPC2 for SCGI Mount point (might be different for your server config)

If that does not work, check with your full service provider, for any server specific settings (or changes needed on your server)

I'm not sure if you have a website account but it's in the top 10 feature requests now. It just needs a handful of more votes before I enter the research stage.

In the meantime this will download and start it on your box.

wget https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/releases/download/v0.7.47/Jackett.Binaries.Mono.tar.gz && tar -zxvf Jackett.Binaries.Mono.tar.gz && cd Jackett && mono JackettConsole.exe

SFTP, HTTP/HTTPS (multipart) is supported with basic and digest auth. FTP over SSL is not supported.

Internally, the downloads are handled by the fantastic aria2 download utility.

Setting up filebot is extremely straightforward. Once filebot is installed (Install java 8 followed by filebot) for rtorrent post processing you just follow his guidelines here: https://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=215#p5316

These instructions consist of adding the execute command to .rtorrent.rc (followed by restarting rtorrent) and then adding the script that rtorrent executes. In the postprocess script just choose your output folder, the copy method (move, copy, symlink, hardlink, etc), whether or not to extract archives, you plex server, etc. The full list of options can be found in the main post on AMC: https://www.filebot.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=215#p1561

Once you start to get a handle on how it works, you can even edit the postprocess script to whitelist or blacklist certain labels so only the files you desire will get processed and added to your library.

As for deluge, the FileBotTool plugin is top notch and has several options to facilitate automatic processing of files based on filename/location/label. Highly recommended

I really recommend you look into Filebot to automate this all for you. It's working great on Bytesized. You can setup a post hook on on rTorrent with a script that runs Filebot on the torrent after each download. Filebot will symlink (shortcut) it into the right folders (/movies or /tv shows or /music etc.) with a proper file structure that Plex understands and ease the indexing for you.

An other option would be to let Sickrage handle the post processing but I'm not a big fan of it myself.

Quickbox has a package called rclone. You can install it and use it to upload files to gdrive. I haven't used it yet, but this and this can help you get started.

You're making more work for yourself.

Just do:

rclone move ~/private/rtorrent/data/Movies gdrive:/Movies/ -v --transfers=30 --stats=5s --drive-use-trash

That way you don't need to move folders on gdrive, they are placed exactly where they should be. You should almost never use the sync command - instead use copy or move.

Also quotations " " are only needed if you have spaces in your paths. It does no harm uses them all the time though if you prefer that way.

https://rclone.org/docs/ Read up on some nice features!

As for your seedbox requirements, i'm not sure how difficult getting ratio on HDBits is so can't really recommend a dedicated provider for that specifically!

>There's no way for you to get your seedbox to download them?

You can set up an rss feed to automatically download torrents to your seedbox, for example for following a bunch of tv shows - http://showrss.info/

Then your seedbox will auto download these. You can go a step further and setup a sync tool, which will sync what's on your seedbox to what's on your home pc (https://syncthing.net/)

Though if you're not a member of a private tracker it might just be easier (And cheaper) to pay for a VPN (PrivateInternetAccess for example)

>I really need a Seedbox for torrenting. Just a few movies here and a few ebooks there - the usual. I've heard about this thing called "Private trackers" and I don't really know what it is.

Do you really need a seedbox?

I recommend instead of having a separate VPS, setup Deluge with a VPN in a Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/binhex/arch-delugevpn/

This set up is super stable for me.

If needed, you can grab a lifetime VPN subscription here: https://stacksocial.com/search?cat=390&amp;query=VPN

I grab a lifetime Windscribe subscription when it was $40 but the price has quadrupled since. Can try one of the other cheaper ones.

The '20Gbps' refers to the network speed for the entire server which you are sharing. Also, it's indeed limited by the disk you use if it's a HDD.

For the top of your budget you can get a 8TB Seedhost dedi. Or , but out of stock.

Also you could consider the app box plans.

They have plex, emby, jellyfin, sonarr, bazarr, radarr, jackett and lidarr.

What you could do, which is a bit of a hack and assuming you are running Android, is setting up Transdrone. You can connect it to your torrent and then every time a torrent finishes it will notify you about it. Here's a guide on how to do it.

Been using Seedhost since the start of 2018 (previously used a Ramnode Storage VPS before leaving after getting an infrigement notice). Started out on the SB Mini tier (350GB HDD, 2TB Upload for 5EUR) but moved to the SB7 with last years Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale (1.5TB HDD, 4.5TB upload for 10EUR, 7EUR after the sale discount). Seedbox performs fine for my needs and usually gets decent ratios on private trackers and manages to download close to 1.5gbps from Usenet (Newshosting with Tweaknews as backup).

Usually able to come close to maxing out my 100/40 connection downloading multiple files at a time from FTP, though I have had some speed issues in the past (suspect it was peak-hour congestion at my NBN POI). Support has been helpful the few times I needed to contact them (ran rm -rf one directory too high and deleted the rtorrent resource file and part of the rutorrent webui, problem was fixed within 3 hours of opening the ticket).

Most VPN providers provide you with instructions on how to install their software/configuration on Linux. For example NordVPN has a .deb, both PIA and express vpn have instructions.

The question others asked, is why do you need both a belt and suspenders? A VPN will generally be significantly slower (you have to travel the VPN vendor's burdened servers), and your seedbox should hide your traffic as coming from you already. Seedboxes and VPN's are competing tech.

What is seedboxco's policy on publics, if that is your issue?

You know what? Being a pirate means to be free and to be able to whatever you want. So let's get back to the topic.

Have you looked into Ultraseedbox? Their cheapest unmetered plan costs 18.82$, though in the FAQ they say: "The only type of tracker we restrict is seeding to public ones. We ask you limit your public torrents to a ratio of 2."

advertises GDrive integration directly on their website and has unlimited upload.

~~A bit off topic, but please consider not to seed as much as 20:1 on public trackers, since you are using a shared seedbox. While I admire your intention to give back as much to the community as you want, it's actually egoistic to do it on a shared seedbox. The reason is that you basically take all the bandwidth, drive activity etc. away from other users, who are on the same seedbox, because public trackers tend to have a constant stream of leechers, who do not give back anything, and others tend to struggle to upload anything.~~

~~I would advise you to join a private tracker, where you actually get stuff shared back and have a private community of like-minded people that are willing to seed.~~

I have tried almost anything from Feral, ByteSized, Whatbox but is just the best match for me so far. Great speeds, great peering with my ISP, reasonable pricing. Went to China a couple of days ago and their VPN is almost the only one working over there. Can’t recommend them enough. Their apps work flawlessly, you have access to a rich SSH environment with ffmpeg and most libs you’d need for something like YouTube-dl.