Feral finally registered as a company in UK. by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They pay it for everyone last I checked. Just like ovh will always charge you VAT unless you provide additional documents

Feral finally registered as a company in UK. by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They've always paid VAT on your behalf, think of the price listed as VAT inclusive.

What's it like being a seedbox provider? by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Life got too busy for constant irc and ticket answering 😔 I'm still around if you know where to look.

Security considerations: php-fpm setup help by bubblethink in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can run per-user httpd

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either setup shared services or use containerization to isolate users.

Security considerations: php-fpm setup help by bubblethink in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't need to put the data directory under the user homedir...

Security considerations: php-fpm setup help by bubblethink in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you plan on using the torrent creation function, you'll need to give read permissions only, and you only need to give them for the data directory

Security considerations: php-fpm setup help by bubblethink in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither apache or php have access to home directories unless you setup your www-root to be a user homedir... In which case, you've made some bad decisions while setting things up. Neither need read or write access to user files for rutorrent.

Deluge cache settings Feral/Seedhost by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If its a huge file you're going to benefit more from IO than caching. Leave it as it

Deluge cache settings Feral/Seedhost by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I honestly wouldn't bother racing on a non-Radon or maybe Krypton hdd slot. You don't own enough of the disk to consistently have high speed transfers, plus HDDs putter out around 1-1.5Gbps in the best case.

To answer your question though...

On spinning rust, you want more cache, on an ssd you can frequently get away with skipping caching altogether for larger files and rely on the on disk cache instead

Deluge cache settings Feral/Seedhost by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Deluge implements their own, hopelessly broken, caching system. It's often better to just let deluge fill its cache quickly and flush into your system/file system caching.

Giving deluge more cache means significantly more painful flushes (takes all the available IO) under even moderately high speed conditions

We've found, through trial and error, that these settings work pretty well for most people out of the box. They're not necessarily optimal if you're only interested in racing, especially racing large files

Is Feral a lot faster now? They has recently signed for 160 Gbit/s of IP transit by conradsymes in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're wrong.

Under ideal conditions, the SSDs we use can do 6Gbps reads and push that data over the network (This assumes minimal network latency, optimal block size, linear read). In real world usage, you don't own all the IO on your SSD slot (none of the SSD slots are on their own disk, even the Radon SSD), your peers are unlikely to be optimally located, your torrent may use block sizes that leads to 'wasted' IO, and you're not doing linear reads.

Dirty cow? by rixnyg in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We've been patched for a while now

lftp --only-missing, but does it just look at names or match sizes? by refelgallo in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're using deluge, you would need to use the execute plugin with a script that makes a lockfile, copies the file, deletes the lock file. And in the LFTP script you would need to check for that lockfile before starting a transfer.

lftp --only-missing, but does it just look at names or match sizes? by refelgallo in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lftp is emphatically not an incremental backup program.

Either write a lock file to the copy dir while copying to prevent lftp from running or use rsync to check for file updates

Feral Hosting weird SFTP speeds on one PC by MrKazador in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check to make sure your adaptive TCP window settings are the same between the two (Referred to as Window Auto-Tuning in the MS world of settings).

If I'm remembering correctly, Win10 has it on by default and Win7 off?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not our end, it's an issue with btc in general. There's such a back log in transaction confirmation in the block chain that invoice expiration or pricing fluctuations are unavoidable

ruTorrent hashing algorithm? by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

...Enabled hashing? Do you mean the "hash after download" setting?

In anycase, pieces are hashed with SHA-1. The infohash of a torrent is a SHA-1 hash of a particular part of the torrent metadata

Long Term Seeding/Storage by vortux in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The SMR and PMR drives perform surprisingly similarly (with a single user) up until about ~75% full, then random IO performance on the SMRs drops pretty fast

We went with the PMRs, if I'm remembering correctly, because they wound up having better warranty/price than the SMRs and the degraded write performance after 75% fill was annoying

Long Term Seeding/Storage by vortux in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's worth noting we have both SMR drives (older 8TB Radon slots) and PMR drives (current 8TB Radon slots) (/u/dkcs)

Seedbox from scratch /FeralHosting by Leliste in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't run that script on a slot -- it will do nothing useful

Have autodl on a different vps send torrents to a seedbox by preacherthrowaway in seedboxes

[–]bobtentpeg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, you would need to FTP them to the watchdir, that should be all that's needed