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veswdev

Hetzner Cloud would make a great seedbox

I decided to grab a Hetzner Cloud server (8,90eur per mo), with 8GB ram, 80GB SSD disk to test their network.

DC selected:

City: Falkenstein

Datacenter: fsn1-dc14

Country: Germany

Port speed I thought was 1Gbit/s at 20TB, but it turns out it's 2Gbit/s down, 1Gbit/s up. Sweet.

Iperf3:

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr  Cwnd
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec   192 MBytes  1.61 Gbits/sec    0   7.70 MBytes
[  4]   1.00-2.00   sec   231 MBytes  1.94 Gbits/sec    0   7.89 MBytes
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec   234 MBytes  1.96 Gbits/sec    0   7.89 MBytes
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec   232 MBytes  1.95 Gbits/sec    0   7.89 MBytes
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec   231 MBytes  1.94 Gbits/sec    0   7.92 MBytes
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec   231 MBytes  1.94 Gbits/sec    0   7.92 MBytes
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec   233 MBytes  1.95 Gbits/sec    0   7.92 MBytes
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec   234 MBytes  1.96 Gbits/sec    0   7.92 MBytes
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec   231 MBytes  1.94 Gbits/sec    0   7.95 MBytes
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec   231 MBytes  1.94 Gbits/sec    0   7.95 MBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  2.23 GBytes  1.91 Gbits/sec    0             sender
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  2.23 GBytes  1.91 Gbits/sec                  receiver

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Total Datagrams
[  4]   0.00-1.00   sec   114 MBytes   954 Mbits/sec  14565
[  4]   1.00-2.00   sec   117 MBytes   984 Mbits/sec  15010
[  4]   2.00-3.00   sec   120 MBytes  1.01 Gbits/sec  15378
[  4]   3.00-4.00   sec   121 MBytes  1.02 Gbits/sec  15520
[  4]   4.00-5.00   sec   119 MBytes   995 Mbits/sec  15187
[  4]   5.00-6.00   sec   118 MBytes   986 Mbits/sec  15051
[  4]   6.00-7.00   sec   120 MBytes  1.01 Gbits/sec  15352
[  4]   7.00-8.00   sec   119 MBytes  1.00 Gbits/sec  15295
[  4]   8.00-9.00   sec   121 MBytes  1.01 Gbits/sec  15431
[  4]   9.00-10.00  sec   117 MBytes   985 Mbits/sec  15036
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Jitter    Lost/Total Datagrams
[  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.16 GBytes   995 Mbits/sec  0.000 ms  0/0 (0%)
[  4] Sent 0 datagrams

(tested against Online.net FR iperf server)

It's not bad for 8,90eur per mo

Posted Feb 23, 2019, 5:31 PM UTC

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respibien•

It’s not gonna go great when you make 60 connections to different peers with that CPU. I know it’s expensive, but dedi is the only way to proper seed.

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mruserperson•

It depends on your usage. Most people 80gb is not enough for seeding. Good for usenet though. Personally I got a 16tb auction server.

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veswdevOP•

Sweet, what did the 16TB cost you?

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mruserperson•

€33/month

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xAragon_•

Damn that's a pretty good deal.. What host did you buy it from?

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mruserperson•

Hetzner.

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prod_engineer•

I use hetzer for a few other projects of mine, if i were to whip up a VPS would I just need to install something like quickbox to start a seedbox server?

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Very new to this so pardon the noob question

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FoxHoundNE•

Checkout dockstarter its like swizzin but installs everything in a docker container.

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veswdevOP•

You can yes. Just be mindful of traffic limits (20TB) on most plans for their Cloud.

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DataMonkeh•

Create a backup, restore it to a new instance, 20TB more data.

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mruserperson•

Yes. It's a unmanaged server you have to install all software yourself. Swizzin is more lightweight and better than quickbox imo, and if you're using gdrive I recommend plexguide.

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FoxHoundNE•

Checkout dockstarter its like swizzin but installs everything in a docker container.

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mruserperson•

Doesn't byte sized have a docker based one too? Plexguide is also docker. I need to find a list somewhere of all the major installers.

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FoxHoundNE•

I dont know, I obviously need that list aswell.

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prod_engineer•

Haha PGBlitz now after their namechange, one of those other projects is a plexguide setup. I absolutely love it.

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Not a huge fan of usenets and the torrenting capabilities arent there yet and i dont have the skill to setup docker container vpns that allow for seeding too..

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Looking at getting a seedbox then having a rclone script to encrypt and load up to my gdrive. Just found ultraseedbox for 5 dollars a month, I might try it but i dont know if they give root access or not :/

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Edit: They dont give root

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mruserperson•

I keep forgetting about the rename and I knew about if ahead of time. I have a 16TB hetzner auction with plexguide torrenting (private trackers) without issue. I also have a 10 gigabit usenet server running pg, and usenet is far superior if you're willing to pay a few bucks for it. Also I'm pretty sure one of the pg community containers is for deluge+VPN setup. Also pg supports encrypted drives now.

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prod_engineer•

On your torrenting server, have you got that running through a VPN?

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Yes, ive seen a few people talk about delugevpn, i tried a few different setups with the stock deluge and creating a openvpn container but i kept having write conflicts or something and the torrent would never start. Going to try delugeVPN now and see what it's like

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