Thread: Looking for a seedbox/dedi...

I am looking for a seedbox with the following:

- 100Mbps dedicated OR 1Gbps(or more) shared. Which would you prefer?

- HDD 500GB +

- No bullshit/really slow hardware



- High and reliable speeds. No up and downs

- Good company, not one-man-shop with no credibility

- Able to accept autodownload software etc, Or is this a stupid question?

- Is there such a thing such as quick ftp?

- Public as well as Private trackers download

Which company would you recommend to me? I wouldn't want to go with the most expensive box. Best value for money i guess.

P.S. As for 1Gbps dedi what do you know to be the best price for a good service etc? I have only found really expensive ones.

P.S.2. I've heard people talk about something such a 100Mbps connection with a switch to 1-2Gbps. What does that mean and under what circumastances it happens?

Referring back to the old topic:

- autodownload is a very manual process, even with rss... If you wanna do irc downloads, you could be needing ssh-access maybe to do the details in configurations.

- quick ftp is only as quick as the transit between seedbox and your home connection.

- concerning ps1; 1Gbps dedi (for you own use), cheapest I know is from OVH since you need to rent almost directly from a hosting-company. Going tru a reseller (who does all the finances, setup and so on) is often more expensive because reseller wants to earn money on top of the base rent; I seen companies charge double, like base $120 but you pay $240 for instance.

- concerning your ps2; it's called bursting and basically you share 1Gbps with x users on the same shared server. If nobody uses it, you can use it all but if everybody is using it, you get a guaranteed 100Mbps.

You can come give us a try at SeedStuff Hosting - Portal Home

We are a sponsor of T-I and a long standing seedbox company. Im going to try to address your points individually even if your not going to signup with us i will try to make this as easy as possible to understand.

Originally Posted by torrentmak

100Mbps dedicated OR 1Gbps(or more) shared. Which would you prefer?

I would say, if your a casual torrenter, and you have AUTODL setup, a 100mbps dedicated box is fine. I use one myself, no need for the 1gbps. Honestly unless your micromanaging your box your never going to use the full potential of a 1gbps. Stick with the dedicated 100mbps box.

Originally Posted by torrentmak

HDD 500GB +

We have a dedicated that starts with 1TB of space.

Originally Posted by torrentmak

- No bullshit/really slow hardware

Honestly a Celeron/Atom is all you need for rtorrent. Sure a i7 might make it faster but the programs are so lightweight a celeron with a couple gigs of ram is great. Your bottle neck will be hdd speeds anyways or ram if your downloading many LARGE files.

Originally Posted by torrentmak

- High and reliable speeds. No up and downs

Keep in mind, speeds are also upto you to maintain. If your downloading week old torrents with 0 leechers and 300 seeds, your never gonna get more then a few kb/s. you need to maintain the new hot torrents in order to hit optimal speeds. Speeds will always die so you need to make sure you have a system in place to always get new ones, such as autodl.

Originally Posted by torrentmak

- Good company, not one-man-shop with no credibility

We are very recognized on TI and other spots around the community.

Originally Posted by torrentmak

- Able to accept autodownload software etc, Or is this a stupid question?

Our boxes come setup with autodl-irssi

Originally Posted by torrentmak

- Is there such a thing such as quick ftp?

This depends on your home connection. my suggestion is to use either multi threading or multi part downloads for single files to maximize speeds.

Originally Posted by torrentmak

- Public as well as Private trackers download

Why do you need public? Your at T-I now, time to play with the big boys and drop publics.

Originally Posted by torrentmak

P.S. As for 1Gbps dedi what do you know to be the best price for a good service etc? I have only found really expensive ones.

These lines aren't cheap, anything cheaper then what your finding wont be truely dedicated.



Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by Gamestuff

Honestly a Celeron/Atom is all you need for rtorrent. Sure a i7 might make it faster but the programs are so lightweight a celeron with a couple gigs of ram is great. Your bottle neck will be hdd speeds anyways or ram if your downloading many LARGE files.

What do you mean by that? I usually do download LARGE files.

Also what speeds for down/up should i expect to get using the 100Mbps dedi?

Originally Posted by torrentmak

What do you mean by that? I usually do download LARGE files.

Also what speeds for down/up should i expect to get using the 100Mbps dedi?

Well large torrents are extremely hard on ram. Just an example, if you only have 512 mb of ram and download a 40+ GB torrent your ram is going to be 100% sucked into that torrent until its done downloading. Unfortunately because its crapping on your ram its also gonna be extremely slow on your speeds until done. so in a dedicated box if you have say 5-6 50+ GB torrents you may also see this issue and may require something with more ram. All depends on your habits though.

As for speeds, you should see peaks of 10-12mb/s and a steady more realistic 5-6mb/s after a few hours of seeding. Keep in mind this is ONLY for new hot torrents. Grabbing anything older then a day old is honestly not going to give you more then 1-2mb/s.

Originally Posted by torrentmak

What do you mean by that? I usually do download LARGE files.

Also what speeds for down/up should i expect to get using the 100Mbps dedi?

100Mbps = 12.5 MB/s if everything is optimal

If you download mutiple(2-3+) large torrents at the same time (>10GiB in size) your HDD can't keep up with the speeds and has to write into the memory. This problem only occurs with the slower, but much cheaper HDD drives. The problem is that most people don't know that this happens when they have a lot of torrents active and some files downloading and blame their provider.
I hope this helps.

Originally Posted by Gamestuff

Honestly a Celeron/Atom is all you need for rtorrent. Sure a i7 might make it faster but the programs are so lightweight a celeron with a couple gigs of ram is great. Your bottle neck will be hdd speeds anyways or ram if your downloading many LARGE files.

Can I kindly disagree?

Yes, rtorrent itself will run fine on the average Celeron but there are several factors to keep in mind. One of those is the hardware a Celeron is bound to, usually it has lower internal speeds on the memory-bus with could (!!) hamper the performance of the machine. Also, I am quite confident one runs into problems if the choice is made to unrar torrents and/or create large torrents from existing data. Also rehashing large torrents, especially after a non-graceful shutdown of rtorrent, can take considerably longer because of the L2 cache.

But this is just my opinion hence I replaced somel old KS-machines with previous gen CPU's for the newer Intels.

Originally Posted by DutchRuff

Can I kindly disagree?

Yes, rtorrent itself will run fine on the average Celeron but there are several factors to keep in mind. One of those is the hardware a Celeron is bound to, usually it has lower internal speeds on the memory-bus with could (!!) hamper the performance of the machine. Also, I am quite confident one runs into problems if the choice is made to unrar torrents and/or create large torrents from existing data. Also rehashing large torrents, especially after a non-graceful shutdown of rtorrent, can take considerably longer because of the L2 cache.

But this is just my opinion hence I replaced somel old KS-machines with previous gen CPU's for the newer Intels.

Your definately welcome to your opinion but i have to say i have NEVER had an issue with unraring torrents and/or create large torrents from existing data. I run a celeron on my personal seedbox and have never had any issues. I actually have it set to auto unrar everything it downloads and has always worked perfectly. Hashchecking sucks on ANY processor period. I've had an i7 take forever to recheck all the files on a box, thats just a really crappy procedure anywhere you go.