Hey guys, i want to ask you all how you seed your torrents. I’m considering either using proxmox to create a seedbox or to build a dedicated machine with a vpn that will seedbox.

What VPN do you also use to seed? I have mullvad, for personal use but for seeding it doesn’t have port forwarding.

Thanks! :

  • lemonuri@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    There is no need fire up a dedicated machine to do this. Use your router/ap running openwrt and connect a hdd via usb. The machine needs at least 128 Mb RAM (256 mb would be better). Install the transmission package, set it up, add a gig of swap space on the hdd and you are good to go. The AP runs 24/7 anyways so there will be very few extra power consumption. Vpns often don’t allow port forwarding (mullvad has stopped support recently if I remember correctly). You can just be a passive node and not often ports, that should work good enough. Consider seeding parts of sci-hub. it’s a project worth supporting imho.

    You can just download once of the parts below with less than 12 seeds and set it to host without ratio:

    https://phillm.net/torrent-health-frontend/stats-filtered-table.php?propname[]=seeders&comp[]=<&value[]=12&propname[]=type&comp[]===&value[]=scimag

    • Haha@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      That makes sense too. And maybe is the most logical answer. When i get my desired router i will set this up.