Thread: Getting an OVH server, and want to use it secure!

Originally Posted by Pleadr3

Thank you for your quick response.
Im using SSH 2 there , too. Probably SSH 1 is much faster just like what I experience with SFTP using SSH 1 ?!

I've never knowingly tried SSH1 with my current server, SSH2 is the current standard. I tried to help you out but I my server rejected my SSH1 connection attempts. From what I understand if you used a new version of filezilla it should be SSH2 since that's the current standard.

You may be experiencing what MikeD is talking about with low priority traffic. I live in the US and the lowest I have seen is around 500KB transfer speeds, though typically I max out my home connection, if I let it. Many factors can effect an internet connection going half way around the world.

Originally Posted by Pleadr3

@JayBlaze, how do you exactly activate SSL for seedbox webui? (using deluge here)

I haven't used Deluge, but from their FAQ:

1. Create (self-signed) ssl certificates: SSL/TLS Strong Encryption: FAQ - Apache HTTP Server
2. Put deluge.cert.pem and deluge.key.pem in ~/.config/deluge/ssl/

Hey.

We've got the server now... and pretty much everything works.
But there is one major issue : the speeds.
We are still on the same HDD together (not seperated yet). And using Deluge 1.2.3.
I did some tests by making a new upload on a tracker... Got 22 leechers, most likely most of them have seedboxes. My speeds reeched (yes you won't believe it) 11.1MB/s UL for for some seconds, and I was amazed.
But then the speeds started to jump. 1 second it was 7 MB/s then 2, then 0!! it even stayed at 0 for quite some time then, then it started again... 2... 5.... 7... 4... 1... like crazy... In the end my total upload speed over a duration of 10 hours was 1.37 MB/s!!!! 1.37MB/s!! This is not what I expect on a 100Mbit server, I was thinking of getting atleast 5MB/s on average.

Can someone tell me if OVH is really that bad, or what might cause these instabilities?
Can someone perhaps post a guide how to setup a working rutorrent seedbox that should work 1a with OVH?

What might my mate have set up wrong!?.

It really doesn't sound like you have a problem to me. With one torrent you seeded like 40 some gigs in that 10 hours. That's not bad. Here is some of the factors that may affect speed.
-speed of your peers, they can only connect to you so fast.
-just the way torrent works, as soon as someone gets piece they are sharing that piece with others. So your actually competing with all the peers for upload speed, the protocol is intended to lessen the burden and dependency on one individual. ultimately make the download as fast as possible while sharing the burden with everyone.
-Makes sure to disable DHT, LPD, PEX for private trackers.

Do the same test using 5 torrents and the speed will be higher.

check your ulimit -n if its 1024 make it higher or you might run into problems with lots of connections and files being open at the same time.

You really should go for vpn if you need security... there is many cheap options suitable for torrents :)

Thanks once again JayBlaze. Doing some tests now. I changed the deluge settings.
First of something im unsure :

ulimit is still 1024, (cache size 16 KiB blocks)
cache expiry is 60 (seconds)

Should I change that? and to which value?

Incoming ports are not random, but I got them from 62000 to 62999
Outgoing ports are random

Originally Posted by Pleadr3

ulimit is still 1024, (cache size 16 KiB blocks)
cache expiry is 60 (seconds)

I wouldn't mess with it unless your suspecting disk overloads or something. ulimit -n could be higher for torrenting, like 2048 or 4096, but if your not having problem I don't if that will buy you anything.

If you end up figuring out some optimized setting for faster speeds let me know and I'll do the same back.