Turn my computer into a seedbox

[deliric]

I have a home server which is on 24/7 and has high bandwidth and plenty of disk storage space. I was thinking of helping some users from this forum by turning it into a seedbox that some lucky members of this forum could use along with me, entirely free of charge. Is there any chance that I can do that? And if yes, could someone explain to me what I must do? I'm not a newbie either in computers or in filesharing but I don't know anything about seedboxes.

[sWiFT]

it can be done. firstly is it running windows or linux ? i suggest linux and using Flux as it is very easy to configure and get running and you can control alot more whats going on.

Great idea +1000

[deliric]

Well I'd rather used it under Windows because it would be a lot easier for me. I'm not an expert in Linux...

[wiseD]

By the sound of it Flux is easier to configure, and using linux would ultimately mean more options, but if anyone can give any more info about a seedox running on Windows please let deliric know ;)

Also, great idea mate, they would be lucky users! +2000 :D

[deliric]

Well I hope I manage to make my seedbox. I'll be waiting for help, any info would be great

[FrankLucasFan]

You should use µTorrent's WebUI if you use windows, and tflux if you use Linux.

[Dreamsearch]

Very kind of you deliric69 to try and help some other people.

[BARON]

wow interesting.. never really thought of one
guy being a seedbox good idea

I may be interested....

[deliric]

So basicly it's enought to have the WebUI and to give the password to the other users ?

[sWiFT]

see here's the thing. depending on how many users you plan on sharing with ? How much is your download and upload TBH It is highly suggested you run Flux as you can control all of this. If you plan only allowing 1 or 2 members than webgui would work.

If you need any help getting flux installed let me know i can have it done and running in bout 15-20 minutes on a clean install of centos/fedora linux

[deliric]

For starters I will allow just 1 user of this forum to use it, and I will choose someone I know I can trust and that has experience in this kind of thing. I think if there is only 1 user there shouldn't be too much of a problem. I will give him let's say 20 GB of storage for him to use and I will see how this thing evolves over a months time. If there are no major problems I will go up to 3 users for a month and so on to as many as I can. The problem is that the server will not be used only as a seedbox, so my plan for the future is to buy another server to use exclusivly as a seedbox, which would be running Linux, and then it could be used by a lot more people. But this is not going to happen very soon, it might take me a year until I get there. For starters I will try to have everything running in 1-2 weeks.

As I said, I am goind to use WebUI for starters and give one user 20 GB of storage space. and test this scenario for 1 month. Do you think that's OK?

Any advice would be very apreciated...

[wiseD]

Sounds like a plan mate. Build it up gradually and you should be allright ;)

[deliric]

Ok I just thought a problem... I have an account on TL for example I download something on the seedbox. And the other user also downloads something from TL on my seedbox from his account. Wouldn't appear like I have two accounts on one ip adress? Thus resulting a ban... Am I right ?

[FrankLucasFan]

That's what the passkey system is for, you'll be fine.

[deliric]

Official news: The seedbox has been tested and technicaly speeking is working, but I need more bandwidth for things to go smooth. So I will have to postpone it for a while, until I can afford to buy more bandwidth. I hope it doesen't take too long

[FrankLucasFan]

Here's a link that might help ya about setting up a FTP server in 10 minutes or less.

http://joshbolling.vox.com/library/post/howtoset-up-an-ftp-server-in-10-minutes-or-less.html

[deliric]

Thank you so much, I will read it as soon as I get some spare time.
But the problem is no longer the setting up. At the rate that I'm seeding my bandwidth is enough to get me 200-300 k/s with no problem. But if there are a lot files beeing seeded and a lot of traffic going on I cannot guarantee that speed for every file. I need to make some calculations about the bandwidth I need and that will take me some more time. I'm doing the best I can to rush things.

I will keep u posted

[Epik]

go deliric!!!

[FrankLucasFan]

Got an update for us?

[InviteMe]

Wow deliric the members who get to share this seedbox with u are gonna be hella lucky!

[cubeo]

Hey man, way to go-let us know how it's going

[deliric]

No update for now. Be patient, it will be worth it :P

[aka_katz]

whats ur BW anyway ? just wondering

[sdelsole]

Nice idea deliric69 and very generous. If you need any help, pm me and I'll see what I can do. Good luck.

[wiseD]

Well, I am very pleased to announce that he has managed it :)

With almost no help, he has mastered it and for that alone he deserves a lot of respect and recognition.

But what I find even more amazing, is that he has let me share his box with him :D

I just want to say again deliric thank you so much, and I'm sure everyone will agree with me this is generosity at it's highest form ;)

[sWiFT]

nice.

[sdelsole]

Well, I am very pleased to announce that he has managed it :)

With almost no help, he has mastered it and for that alone he deserves a lot of respect and recognition.

But what I find even more amazing, is that he has let me share his box with him :D

I just want to say again deliric thank you so much, and I'm sure everyone will agree with me this is generosity at it's highest form ;)

Very good job and indeed, very generous.

Congrats to both of you and hope it helps you buffer your accounts.

[Sasha]

Congrats deliric good job :)!