- What is your budget per month?
- 20€/$ max
- How much disk space do you need?
- >1TB, best price/value. Want to add G Drive anyway.
- Are you looking for shared or dedicated seedbox?
- shared is fine as long as it can stream 2-5 clients at once
- Particular uses, streaming? VPN? One-click ease? Racing?
- definitively one-click ease. Streaming+data extension via G Drive. VPN is a plus
- What is the primary reason for getting a seedbox? DMCA? Ratio? Wife discovered Porn? Please expand.
- Its cheaper than homebrew and safer.
- Location (yours and/or the vendors)? Most seedboxes are concentrated in Europe (France, Netherlands, Germany)
- Central europe, NL preferred.
- Particular speed (100M, 1G, 10G, Ludicrous Speed, etc)? Slow, fast, fastest.
- 1G is totally fine
- Do you use public trackers extensively?
- I would like to use torrent as fallback (usenet preferred). Since i don't have private trackers and no interest in seeding, public trackers will be used
- How much experience do you have with seedboxes, linux, and alike? Need a lot of handholding?
- Seedboxes, just tried UBS. Linux: lower end of mediocre. I can follow CLI tutorials and troubleshoot basics, but not more
- Is your location problematic? e.g. I'm at university. I'm one of three people on the island of Yap.
- no, but the more security the better.
- Particular payment methods the vendor needs to accept: bitcoin, paypal, paysafecard, Turkish Lire?
- bitcoin and paysafecard preferred.
- Particular content: Games, TV shows, Anime; Movies; Remuxes; the oeuvre of Fatty Arbuckle?
- Movies, TV
- Using problemsome trackers like public ones or challenging trackers like RED and CHD?
- i use only whats necessary.
- Any idea on how much bandwidth you need a month? 1TB; 3TB; 30TB?
- probably <1TB
- Are you a paranoiac, need special safety assurances?
- Reasonable security preferred.
- Other more unique requirements? You want to run a website too; Azureus is your favorite client, can't live without it; Or god forbid you really, really need Windows.
- Musts: rclone (Gdrive integration), Sonarr, Lidarr, Radarr, Jackett (and all the fancy stuff which comes with it) any Torrent client and OCH client.
So i tried UBS and i really liked it. Its absolutely easy to setup and is more snappy than my homebrew setup. I have read tons about my options and reviews on the internet, but i am not sure if UBS is the right fit for me. Now that i tried out most of what i want to do with UBS i experienced my first problem with it: It does not seem to work nicely with torrents with public trackers. I can't get any reasonable download speed on my torrents. Thats something i would not have thought, but apparently, there is no way around ( i made another post about this 2 days ago).
Now additionally i found some other more things which i do have questions about and i cant really figure out on my own. Some seedbox suppliers are really restrictive with their infos on what they can provide. Its not that easy to compare, i think.
Things i am unsure about:
- PlexGuide is for "root users" right? For people with shared or dedicated boxes who will install most of their stuff on their own, right? Whats the disadvantage with seedboxes though? I know many don't have root access and worse performance of no dedicated server is used, but since i am on a small scale, that should be fine.
- Question for all seedboxes: will it be possible to add a GDrive into the pre-installed plex server folders? Or would the preinstalled plex somehow have troubles with that mount? Can i even use encrypted rclone mounts on these boxes by default? I know it works with plex because it works with plexguide. But i am still not sure about the whole encryption stuff.
- Plex and Cloudflare/CDN. What is it and why do i need it? I am a bit confused about this. Some boxes provide this, some don't.
- I would need about 2-5 streams at the same time max. Even fewer transcoding. Those seedboxes don't really tell what they are capable off. But i am ruling out dedicated servers and dedicated VPS because i think i really don't need the power
- SSL on UBS: Can only get it to work on Sabnzbd. Is this usual practice? I would at least like my endpoints to be on secure (i would say ombi in this case, but i acually really like to use radarr and sonarr by itself)
That said, i would like to try out cloudboxes.io I like that they have many apps but also root access and explicitly express mounting options. It seems to me, that they can cover it all. Only drawback is a smaller drive, which i can compensate using external mounting. What i also dislike is, that i cannot find anywhere where their business and their servers are located.
What is your experience with cloudboxes.io and what would you recommend me to go for?
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