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I've been using seedboxes more and more recently, month after month. I'm currently with seedhost.eu at the moment. It seems very good it's about the best I can find really, had some bad experiences previously with another company that I won't even bother to mention. I joined seedhost.eu back in November. I'm pleased with the service overall, it's very good. Huge disappointment with rTorrent though, I don't know what went wrong with that client, I can't even get it to work anymore with my torrents so I had to give up. The good thing with seedhost.eu is that they allow you to use other clients so I've been using deluge. I like the settings for deluge it's pretty good but the thing is I can never seem to get it going at full speed no matter what I try. I calculated that by running the upload at about 39.1Mb/s (390 meg) that every month I will have used all my allowance up which is 100TB. I have deluge set to that limit at the moment but with deluge can't seem to manage more than 30Mb/s on average. There's always that quarter or so of the speed that it doesn't seem to use which is annoying really even though the users are there waiting to download all the time.
I can't even get rTorrent working anymore. I use Demonoid and Pirate Bay and usually when I make a torrent I just put the current announce for Demonoid into the torrent and then create it. I don't go adding all different announces to the torrent. Usually when I upload to Pirate Bay it usually uses the default announces which don't seem to do a lot of good in my eyes. I tend to find that a lot of the connections either come from DHT or Peer Exchange. The trouble with rTorrent is that it don't seem to work with Peer Exchange or DHT it's crap really. Deluge seems to work okay with DHT and Peer Exchange but trouble is you can only have so many torrents running at once with it and it seems to queue things up a lot and just uploads here and there. To be honest I'm not sure what I'm doing anymore I've managed to find a setting for deluge where I queue up about 70 torrents, it doesn't actually get anywhere near that usually mid 20's for actual upload. Also I set about 35 connections at one time maximum. This seems to be the best I can manage to run it on. If I have too many connections then I lose massive upload performance. It is really frustrating really trying to get it as fast as possible. rTorrent just doesn't do anything at all these days I asked them at seedhost.eu if they would reinstall rTorrent for me because I thought I was having a problem but they told me that it was just the way it was working with my torrents which is strange because I used to get rTorrent working just fine on my old Seedbox provider.
I just don't know where to go really at the moment. I like seedhost.eu, the prices are reasonable. The support well I wouldn't say it's all that great really I just feel usually like avoiding trying to open a ticket now because otherwise I will just be given pointless or useless advice in most cases and also with the language barrier it's a wonder if those guys even understand what I'm talking about anyway. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation really. I just think that rTorrent is a really crap client, it does nothing for me. It's useless on DHT and Peer Exchange and doesn't even connect. My only hope is using deluge. Another annoying thing about rTorrent which is crap also is that there's no queue settings either so you can't configure that. At least with deluge it's easier to set your upload limit where as with rTorrent you have to log into the server using Putty and enter lines of code to enable the client to run Channels properly otherwise Channels is useless. Without Channels you can't even configure rTorrent at all to limit your upload to make sure you don't overspeed all the time and go above your allowance. I hate all that traffic shaping as it can go on for days. They tell me the month starts on the 1st of each month. He told me the other day I'd used almost all my 100TB he said I was about 5TB off 2 days before the end of March. I'm not sure if I believe that though I think he was just making that up to make me feel like I'd uploaded loads. To be honest I don't think I did at all cause the client wasn't going anywhere near full upload speed most of the time so that was probably a lie.
There's no graph with deluge either so like in rTorrent where you can see how much you're uploading and downloading you can't see anything in deluge other than what you've uploaded on each torrent. I keep pausing torrents every few days, ones that have uploaded more overall. I do that to try and get everything seeding it's not always easy and plus if there's not such a massive pull on those weaker torrents then they just sit there and do nothing really. The stuff that's more uploaded is usually more favoured to upload more and more. The weak stuff sometimes I wonder if people have even downloaded them at all. They said at seedhost.eu that running deluge as a permanent client is not recommended usually they said in the long run you should run rTorrent but I don't know about that, again more useless advice really coming from their support team. I don't see the harm what client you choose. If rTorrent won't connect to DHT and Peer Exchange then it's completely useless to me because that is what keeps my torrents running. I only make Public torrents not into Private to be honest, never wanted to join any private torrent sites, I don't like how these places are run I've heard of people saying that Private trackers have too many rules. I just like the idea of Public torrents where you just upload and that's it, no silly rules, whether I upload to Public or Private I don't really see the difference it's all the same to me. Demonoid bounced back more recently, just seems so unpopular to what it used to be. I get lots of downloaders from Pirate Bay it's just hard sometimes getting torrents to upload to that site, best to use a VPN really and try different countries to see which one works the best.
I can't even get rTorrent working anymore. I use Demonoid and Pirate Bay and usually when I make a torrent I just put the current announce for Demonoid into the torrent and then create it. I don't go adding all different announces to the torrent. Usually when I upload to Pirate Bay it usually uses the default announces which don't seem to do a lot of good in my eyes. I tend to find that a lot of the connections either come from DHT or Peer Exchange. The trouble with rTorrent is that it don't seem to work with Peer Exchange or DHT it's crap really. Deluge seems to work okay with DHT and Peer Exchange but trouble is you can only have so many torrents running at once with it and it seems to queue things up a lot and just uploads here and there. To be honest I'm not sure what I'm doing anymore I've managed to find a setting for deluge where I queue up about 70 torrents, it doesn't actually get anywhere near that usually mid 20's for actual upload. Also I set about 35 connections at one time maximum. This seems to be the best I can manage to run it on. If I have too many connections then I lose massive upload performance. It is really frustrating really trying to get it as fast as possible. rTorrent just doesn't do anything at all these days I asked them at seedhost.eu if they would reinstall rTorrent for me because I thought I was having a problem but they told me that it was just the way it was working with my torrents which is strange because I used to get rTorrent working just fine on my old Seedbox provider.
I just don't know where to go really at the moment. I like seedhost.eu, the prices are reasonable. The support well I wouldn't say it's all that great really I just feel usually like avoiding trying to open a ticket now because otherwise I will just be given pointless or useless advice in most cases and also with the language barrier it's a wonder if those guys even understand what I'm talking about anyway. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation really. I just think that rTorrent is a really crap client, it does nothing for me. It's useless on DHT and Peer Exchange and doesn't even connect. My only hope is using deluge. Another annoying thing about rTorrent which is crap also is that there's no queue settings either so you can't configure that. At least with deluge it's easier to set your upload limit where as with rTorrent you have to log into the server using Putty and enter lines of code to enable the client to run Channels properly otherwise Channels is useless. Without Channels you can't even configure rTorrent at all to limit your upload to make sure you don't overspeed all the time and go above your allowance. I hate all that traffic shaping as it can go on for days. They tell me the month starts on the 1st of each month. He told me the other day I'd used almost all my 100TB he said I was about 5TB off 2 days before the end of March. I'm not sure if I believe that though I think he was just making that up to make me feel like I'd uploaded loads. To be honest I don't think I did at all cause the client wasn't going anywhere near full upload speed most of the time so that was probably a lie.
There's no graph with deluge either so like in rTorrent where you can see how much you're uploading and downloading you can't see anything in deluge other than what you've uploaded on each torrent. I keep pausing torrents every few days, ones that have uploaded more overall. I do that to try and get everything seeding it's not always easy and plus if there's not such a massive pull on those weaker torrents then they just sit there and do nothing really. The stuff that's more uploaded is usually more favoured to upload more and more. The weak stuff sometimes I wonder if people have even downloaded them at all. They said at seedhost.eu that running deluge as a permanent client is not recommended usually they said in the long run you should run rTorrent but I don't know about that, again more useless advice really coming from their support team. I don't see the harm what client you choose. If rTorrent won't connect to DHT and Peer Exchange then it's completely useless to me because that is what keeps my torrents running. I only make Public torrents not into Private to be honest, never wanted to join any private torrent sites, I don't like how these places are run I've heard of people saying that Private trackers have too many rules. I just like the idea of Public torrents where you just upload and that's it, no silly rules, whether I upload to Public or Private I don't really see the difference it's all the same to me. Demonoid bounced back more recently, just seems so unpopular to what it used to be. I get lots of downloaders from Pirate Bay it's just hard sometimes getting torrents to upload to that site, best to use a VPN really and try different countries to see which one works the best.
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