IRC & Torrent allowed at hostigation

pylode

Hi,

I was just wondering if any of the community here run IRC or torrent seedboxes on Hostigation OpenVZ/KVM services?
Do they permit this? (I have submitted a ticket, but would love to get input from the community as well.

Spencer

This is a question for @miTgiB

pylode

Tim replied to my ticket and said no on linked IRC servers.. but would still like to know user experience with torrenting there? reliable? etc

jar

No one cares if you torrent unless you:
A. Abuse resources
B. Get caught violating copyright laws

No exception to that will be found at Hostigation.

pylode

@jarland some providers prohibit torrents full stop. I'm okay with A. and B. I only torrent legal content that i own the copyright for/or open source linux distros

HalfEatenPie

Well the reason why some providers prohibit (to my understanding) is that torrenting is also a huge I/O drain.

jar

@smooch1502 said: some providers prohibit torrents full stop. I'm okay with A. and B. I only torrent legal content that i own the copyright for/or open source linux distros

You won't find a problem with Tim then. His torrent policy is the same as his biggest policy: "don't be a dick."

Infinity

@smooch1502 said: @jarland some providers prohibit torrents full stop. I'm okay with A. and B. I only torrent legal content that i own the copyright for/or open source linux distros

Well that is okay for Hostigation, provided you abide by Tim's rule:

@jarland said: biggest policy: "don't be a dick."

Also as the Pie Lord said:

@HalfEatenPie said: Well the reason why some providers prohibit (to my understanding) is that torrenting is also a huge I/O drain.

If it causes problems on Hostigations nodes and neighbours are affected etc., it won't be allowed, that's part of Tim's "don't be a dick" clause.

HalfEatenPie

@Infinity said: If it causes problems on Hostigations nodes and neighbours are affected etc., it won't be allowed, that's part of Tim's "don't be a dick" clause.

I love Tim's "Don't be a dick" clause. Such a blanket rule that applies to... well... everything.

fly

I wouldn't recommend using hostigation. go w ovh, or someone who doesn't care

AlexanderM

@HalfEatenPie said: > > @Infinity said: If it causes problems on Hostigations nodes and neighbours are affected etc., it won't be allowed, that's part of Tim's "don't be a dick" clause.

I love Tim's "Don't be a dick" clause. Such a blanket rule that applies to... well... everything.

Same

miTgiB

@HalfEatenPie said: torrenting is also a huge I/O drain.

Limiting seeding to 5MB seems to be the key to not get caught in the Don't be a Dick rule

@fly said: I wouldn't recommend using hostigation. go w ovh, or someone who doesn't care

OVH is not the end all be all for everyone, some may like the fact of a East/West Coast US location or something more than an Atom or other low grade POS box.

raindog308

@miTgiB said: other low grade POS box

I'm guessing that doesn't stand for Pre-Owned Supercomputer.

Maounique

@raindog308 said: I'm guessing that doesn't stand for Pre-Owned Supercomputer.

LOL :P
We had torrenters doing 800+ mbps and didnt abuse disk (but were asked to throttle due to network abuse) while others did 100 and were caught in the alarms.
Probably some clients do not defragment the files downloaded and this generates a lot of seek instead of getting the chunk in one go.
I am not using torrents more than an occasional distro when I dont want to hammer mirrors and seems to be pretty light on disk, but it might be different in case of low BW and multiple sources which get aggregated and the resulting file is a huge puzzle.

AnthonySmith

Pre allocation.

That is all you need

fly

@miTgiB said: OVH is not the end all be all for everyone, some may like the fact of a East/West Coast US location or something more than an Atom or other low grade POS box.

for torrenting? i dont think the cpu matters that much

Rallias

@HalfEatenPie said: is that torrenting is also a huge I/O drain.

ps -Af | grep torrent | awk '{print $2}' | xargs ionice -c idle