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Looking for options to upgrade to from Feral Hosting
GrumpyBear
Member
VZ Type:
Assuming this is supposed to mean hypervisor; doesn't matter.
Number of Cores: Not super fussy
RAM: Not super fussy
Disk Space: 2-4TB
Disk Type: Better than shared single HDD
Bandwidth: 40-60TB
Port Speed: 2.5 gbit (or more) highly preferred
DDoS Protection:
No
Number of IPs:
1 (shared is fine, having the option to upgrade to dedicated would be nice)
Location:
Not supper fussy, as long as it has good access to anime trackers (Nyaa, AB, BBT, etc) and won't peer poorly with my Canadian ISP (I have gigabit and would like to at least come close to saturating half that)
Budget:
Max $30/month ($40 CAD/month)
Billing period:
Monthly (quarterly and yearly are fine as long as refund policy is a week or more)
Additional Notes:
- I need to have access to public trackers
- SSH access is strongly preferred (root optional, but again strongly preferred) -- I should be able to install and upgrade ruTorrent and/or qBittorrent with VueTorrent without relying on the provider to do anything
- Box type (shared, VPS, dedicated) doesn't matter to me as long as it fits my performance criteria
- I won't be doing anything fancy with the box. It will run a torrent client with a web interface, and that's about it.
I'm currently using Feral, but need more space and figured I might as well look at some other providers since I have a couple gripes with Feral:
- Bad multi-tasking (downloading a torrent or transferring data via FTP/HTTP will throttle seeding to ~10MB/s)
- Peering with my ISP seems to be rather meh, speeds (rarely) max out at ~60MB/s of my 100MB/s connection (usually see ~30MB/s)
- ruTorrent UI isn't super responsive (I'm not sure if this is a problem with the slot or with ruTorrent)
- Can't upgrade slot size in place, need to setup a fresh slot and transfer data over
I suspect the first and possibly second gripes are caused by HDD performance just being kinda meh, but while I don't want to pay the outrageous pricing for 1TB+ of NVME, I'd also like something faster than just a single HDD (which is probably shared). Otherwise, I'm quite happy with them, I pay ~$15CAD/month for 1TB of space at gigabit+ speeds and unlimited bandwidth, the last two gripes aren't even that bad, more mild annoyances than anything. I've also tried using Rapidseedbox previously, and was wholly unimpressed with the seeding performance, IIRC it was a good 2 or 3 times slower than Feral.
Most other providers I've looked at seem to scale bandwidth cap with storage space, but I don't need/want a ton of space, just the bandwidth. On paper, PulsedMedia and Appbox both solve this at great price points, but I've ruled out Pulsed media because of a lot of negative reviews for them on /r/seedboxes, and concerned about Appbox because I saw someone mention being happy with 30MB/s upload speeds, and I will often exceed that.
I've also looked at Whatbox, Ultra, Seedhost, and Hosting By Design, and found that Whatbox, Ultra, and Seedhost 2TB slots seem better than Feral for pricing, until you consider that I'd need 40+TB of addon bandwidth (Whatbox doesn't have pricing info for this that I can find without logging in, Ultra would be +$37 CAD/month, and Seedhost would be over $150 CAD!).
Seedhost and HDB both look like they have decent dedicated dedicated options, but only at 1gbps, the 10gbps options are both more than I'd like to pay. My average upload is certainly less than (I think it works out to be around 100-150mbps), but I'll peak around 2.5gbps on some new torrents, and regularly approach 1gbps when a couple larger torrents are being downloaded by peers with good internet (which I suspect is not as fast as it could go, again likely because of the HDD performance -- quite often I'll see a peer drastically increase it's transfer speed after a different (fast) peer completes and disconnects).
If anyone could recommend a solution, that'd be great. Hopefully I'm not out too out to lunch with my expectations, if so I guess I'll just stick with Feral and deal with my gripes.
Comments
@PulsedMedia is in FI, unsure if what they have suits your needs.
Cheers
I think you want this:
Cloudnium — $19.99 / month
2048 GB SSD
2048 MB RAM
51200 GB/month bandwidth
2 Intel Cores (shared)
1.0 Gbps port speed
IPv4 + IPv6
US location
Or scramble the pony parameters (aff).
I addressed this in my post:
Specifically, I've heard their management is poor, and reading some of the comments from their reddit account, I certainly agree that it's not the greatest.
I'd really like a 10gbps port, but I'll take a look at the ponyhost link, thanks.
Whatbox's NVMe plans are ultra-fast.
I was often able to download and upload at 400 MiB/s (3.2 Gbit/s)
Extra 110 TB of traffic costs 25.00 USD
Whatbox traffic increase costs are: $5 USD for 5.50 TB, $10 USD for 27.50 TB or $25 USD for 110 TB
Also, if you go over the limit they will not charge overage fees but your upload speeds will be capped at 100 Mbps until the end of the billing cycle.
As I mentioned, pure NVME is not in the budget (Whatbox 1TB NVME is already at the max budget, nevermind the 2TB one that I would actually need).
Hm, I could maybe barely squeeze by on the 3TB plan with 7.5TB bandwidth and a 27.5TB addon, but that's still going to be $29 CAD/month for the slot + another ~$15 CAD/month for the bandwidth addon, and that's pretty much at my max budget. It'd probably work, but with having more data available for seeding, alongside (hopefully) better seeding performance, I suspect that I'd be doing more than the 40TB I am now, so would have to get the 110TB addon package for ~$35 CAD/month, throwing me over budget.
Thanks for the info though!
You might be able to find a vps that meets those requirements but public trackers are going to be a big issue.
There are a lot of seedbox providers that don't even allow public. For public trackers, its probably better use a vpn and route traffic through it or maybe use a service like real debrid.
I was hoping public tracker requirement wasn't going to bite me
A VPN won't work because I'd still need to have somewhere to host the torrent client, since my home upload is not adequate.
You'll have to explain what real debrid is, because their site doesn't say anything other than you can download files with it. Quite honestly the lack of information on their site makes me not want to use whatever it is they're offering regardless of whether or not it's actually useful.
I guess what I meant by using a vpn is... buy a vps and run a docker container that runs the torrent client of your choice while routing the traffic through a vpn.
Real debrid is a service that acts as the middleman for anyone that wants to download stuff at high speeds including torrents without the DMCA notice. You put in the link, they will download it using their servers and pass on a link where you can download it from their servers.
For your situation, it's honestly tough because there aren't many providers that can offer what you want.
It's either vps that doesn't allow public torrents and does not ignore dmca or
a seedbox like you have already or you're going to have to pay $100+/m for a dedicated server
You should be aware that this was manipulation tactics. Competitors paid for the mods, and the running rule of mods for many many years was that anything positive about Pulsed Media is to be removed, and the negative ramped up. A lot of sock puppet accounts etc.
That's the name of the game on Reddit, mods are often paid to shill or act certain way, there are long documentaries of this practice on how the mods get paid. Further ... It's certain type of people who generally become reddit mods and makes like 95% of them. Check youtube, for example "Moon" has a "short" (40min if i recall) documentary about that, and i think "Magnates Media" too. I remember that stuff being on more mainstream too.
We stepped on some toes with our aggressive pricing combined with the high quality of service we have been providing now for more than 14 years.
These competitors who ran that attack have mostly gone bankrupt by now. To best of my knowledge, we are the only seedbox provider which actually has their own datacenter, network and hardware. There are some who have their own hardware and/or networks, but not the full stack. We are in process of building our 2nd datacenter.
We are also bootstrapped company and are fully self funded.
You might want to read https://lowendbox.com/blog/interview-qa-with-aleksi-ceo-of-pulsedmedia/
Then ask yourself, does this sound like a company with bad management, or whatever other BS you can find on reddit?
All i can say, we retain quite a % of our first year customers to this date, and just couple weeks back noticed someone came back after more than a decade. We got to be doing something right, there has to be a reason for that
All that being said, you cannot satisfy 100% of customers, the needs and expectations just vary way way too much -- that's why there is 14day refund policy (use paypal for that)