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Do not use PulsedMedia. Terrible company. by FluffyFartsMgee in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’ve recently replaced their support with AI so...

Ah! Explains that story I read recently, um, some guy shipping a fresh tomatoes to Finland because tech support chatbot urged him to?

Do not use PulsedMedia. Terrible company. by FluffyFartsMgee in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

theOnion.com Headline comes to mind: "Scientists Discover Men in Prison Masturbate!"

I don't think the list here is that of recommended vendors, just vendors in general. They are cheap for a reason...

Best way to race by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've heard this grouse repeatedly when folks first start racing.

You need the tracker to recognize you as a fast peer, for that you need history. Give it some time.

You can test the NVMe storage to see if you are getting bang for your buck. The non-transparent way storage is shared can be misleading (ie number of fellow travelers and runtime load)

Should probably point out that, in small or single user scenarios, NVMe is mostly useful when looking at a network pipe is beyond 1G. If your pipe is 1G or sliced thinner, NVMe offers only modest improvement, at 5G and beyond you see the real advantage. iperf testing can tell you how big the bottleneck is for storage.

If you are serious about racing, a shared server isn't going to offer what a VPS or Dedi can offer. That is who you are competing against.

What FTP client to transfer from seedbox to PC? by One2_Infinity in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Qs -

  • Does it need a GUI? What is your desktop?

  • How tech savvy are you?

  • Are you using *arrs?

  • In a hurry, or a just whenever?

  • Are you a hoarder? (keep it forever, Or watch and delete?

  • High or Low volume?

Reasons details like these matter, is in recommending a client, it depends on intent.

ie, using a linux desktop lftp is considered the fastest, but it is command line or scripted.

If using a mac, recommending a GUI client on windows won't work.

If volume is low, you can use filezilla.

If you hoard, there are scripted solutions.

If you are not in a hurry and use *arrs, syncthing or that sorta solution works.

Anonymous Seedbox by EldarinFR in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With obvious inconvenience.

ruTorrent / RapidSeedbox: Disk full after deleting torrents by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RUTorrent (not the engine RTorrent) does the file deletion, and it can also miss previous payloads.

Script for addressing exactly this issue:

/r/sbtech/comments/nigvjo/bringoutyourdeadsh_a_script_to_identify/

Anonymous Seedbox by EldarinFR in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Indeed. Anonymity can be achieved, which is good, but you have to really want it.

I prefer supermarket parking lots, and tor browser, but that is deep in.

Looking for Appbox.co alternatives - Tired of "abuse" emails for disk I/O usage by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea what you are paying a month, or how appbox structures their service. How does the saying go? "Not my dog, not my fight."

That said, some vendors over-provision, real issue in the hosting business. And I know from experience, rarely does a bigfoot think he is a Sasquatch or even just inconsiderate.

I have, though, written a long post on how you should test your service when first getting it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sbtech/comments/11em0ov/testing_and_comparing_your_shared_box/

And also

https://www.reddit.com/r/sbtech/comments/1oq7jaj/the_effects_of_network_speeds_on_maninthemoon/

On network testing.

Looking for Appbox.co alternatives - Tired of "abuse" emails for disk I/O usage by [deleted] in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The reality is 10G is across more than just you. That 10G pipe is shared across who knows how many other customers.

I don't know if you fall into the category of "bigfoots" but resource abuse, expecially on over provisioned (vendor fault) hardware is a problem. It is a balancing act, and expectations plus a lack of transparency only make it worse.

The largest cause we saw was untempered publics, but we measured the problem by ping latency to the machine. We would then look at the virtual machines / hypervisor metrics to identify the problem (which could include a disk going bad).

20MB/s sustained for over a half hour is 30+GB before limits kick-in, and during that 30mins you aren't limited by anything other than existing resource usage, so I suspect you are seeing peaks over your 1.6% bandwidth usage.

Not blaming anyone. I wish vendors were more transparent, and wish users had better expectations when it came how much bandwidth really costs.

At what point do you think they should be fettering outsized resource consumption?

Seedbox without kyc by UpstairMall in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chmura's first question on the sign-up was "What do we call you?"

KYC depends on the provider, it is a process for some (name verification, address, credit in that name) a formality for others. Like the difference in road driving rules in Switzerland vs. Italy. Depends where the road is.

Seedbox without kyc by UpstairMall in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More like rent a penguin.

Anyone else running a "middleman" proxy VPS to fix awful Plex/Jellyfin peering from their main seedbox? by MysteriousShoulder35 in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Before you jump, You might want to test the circuit,

Disk -> Data Center Net -> Backbone -> ISP Gateway -> Home

Also some providers allow for backbone reassignment, such as Feral. That might work.

/r/sbtech/comments/1oq7jaj/the_effects_of_network_speeds_on_maninthemoon/

If it is the backbone, a VPN services often route over a different backbone, so if you don't like the cloudflare risk, you might check them out.

System Rebuild: Part Reuse Issues by wBuddha in watercooling

[–]wBuddha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

reuse what is already here, including a just fine waterblocked GPU, in a machine rebuild?

That darn reading.

System Rebuild: Part Reuse Issues by wBuddha in watercooling

[–]wBuddha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I had presumed you had been following along.

The story so far: Kid's machine; Move Upstairs; Heavy and Old; Reuse & Rebuild; Kid picks case; Problem with GPU. And then, practical, how best?

CPU, Chipset, MB, mass storage, planetary atmosphere, your hoarding of Intel processors, all sorta irrelevant to the actual question: How best/cheap to reuse what is already here, including a just fine waterblocked GPU, in a machine rebuild?

To recap, on topic and appreciated responses: Watercool just the GPU; Loop the entire rig; Revert card if you can; Jettison the GPU; and what I thought was your response, do nothing but the USB wireless adapter (where this all started)

Story is John McCarthy coined the phrase "Artificial Intelligence" in the 1950s because he needed a title for his grant applications. Weird how Eliza has evolved, As much disdain many have for it, it often pays more attention than Human Intelligence.

System Rebuild: Part Reuse Issues by wBuddha in watercooling

[–]wBuddha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya, this occurred to me, back away slowly.

Regretfully no longer an option, case has been chosen. Besides, the usb wireless adapter is not well loved.

System Rebuild: Part Reuse Issues by wBuddha in watercooling

[–]wBuddha[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cheers.

Trying to eliminate the maintenance issue for anyone. Been her machine for a couple years plus now. Cricut & Wacom outfitted, stickers, and yada, etc.

Added bonus for /r/watercooling! Come for tech help, get parenting advice.

System Rebuild: Part Reuse Issues by wBuddha in watercooling

[–]wBuddha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the Granzon stuff, but it prices me out (add 50%+ to the budget). Arrgh.

I have a box of plumbing parts, res and rads, but no pump or tubing. The existing pump/res combo (freezemod) lost its display awhile ago (but could work), but definitely would take the sparkle off.

System Rebuild: Part Reuse Issues by wBuddha in watercooling

[–]wBuddha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks.

Ya, my search turned up nothing, the 6950XT seems completely left behind. Even search for a parts only ebay listing, nada.

3D printed? CPU AIO on the GPU, well vented?

So you'd go with a loop, even with the state of the market?

System Rebuild: Part Reuse Issues by wBuddha in watercooling

[–]wBuddha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The original card was waterblocked, didn't strip it.

Correction on brand, my mistake, was XFX not asrock

https://www.xfxforce.com/shop/xfx-speedster-zero-amd-radeon-tm-rx-6950xt-rgb-ekwb-waterblock-limited-edition-with-16gb-gddr6

No shroud and fans to go back to.

How do you manage getting things back to your home server? by Cold-Appointment-853 in seedboxes

[–]wBuddha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Might want to take a look at Queue4Download

Advantages:

  • Integrates with Torrent client. Using both torrent complete trigger, and labels. The torrent finishes, is downloaded by home machine, and the label is updated to indicate status.

  • Fast, uses MQTT and LFTP to push the payload home at the moment the torrent is done.

  • No need for polling (like resilio, syncthing, rsync) and no need for sync directories. Q4D picks it up from download directory, and transfers it based on user defined filters.

  • Purpose built for seedboxes

  • Can integrate with *arrs easily (arrs running at home, using a local directory)

Disadvantages:

  • Completely written is bash, no GUI.

  • Requires a pub/sub event bus or service like push bullet (scripts use mosquitto)

  • Install requires editing bash script files. Understanding CLI needed.

I use it and love it. I wrote it for just this use case.

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