Hi people! I have been pirating for myself for over 30 years now, and with the ever growing size of warez and the laughable upstream limit my ISP has, i have come to the point where it's not practical to maintain a 1:1 ratio for all torrents anymore - my active torrent list keeps growing beyond practical limits, and i'm someone who wants to keep sharing things for the people after me, esp. torrents with low amounts of seeds.

I'm pretty sure that i know more than i think i do, but i would be happy about a few pointers to get started with a seedbox. i have beginner linux skills, advanced user skills, and not shy of reading manuals on how to get things to work. i have not tinkered with docker much yet, but i'm willing to learn.

Edit: From what i've learned and seen i tend towards an dedicated server since i might want to host other services for myself too, so suggestions for what hoster to look at are welcome!

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[–] pirat@lemmy.studio 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

whatbox is awesome and their support team is top notch.

lots you can do with their system.

[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Like fuck me but I was on the fence until I saw they had step by step guides for literally everything. How dare you accuse me of being a geriatric incompetent apple fan, now shut up and take my money.

AND THEIR GUIDES ARE DYNAMIC: "look for server input box on the FTP client. Here is your specific server ip that you'll want to put in"

[–] pirat@lemmy.studio 2 points 2 days ago

100% they're awesome - and you can install your own apps on the instance, probably could use it for hosting a site if wanted.

I set up a foundry instance on mine.