Pulsed Media 12Th Anniversary Celebration ** FREE Seedboxes AND Special Anniversary Seedboxes!

elliotc · February 2022

I throuht people use plex/emby is for TV

NoComment · February 2022

@yoursunny said: five movies (15GB)

A 1080p movie that is encoded with not much quality loss usually runs anywhere from 8-15 GB. Sometimes slightly more than that. Then you have some people who want lossless remux or even the original blurays, or people wanting 4k media. The people who spend the most on seedboxes usually are part of the group that care about the quality of their media.

@PulsedMedia said: Assembly, QA, Racking etc. takes about 1 work day @ 60€/hour

Just curious, is this 60 euro/hr you mentioned several times only for your local/on-premises employees? Don't you have any outsourced/foreign support handling tickets?

Astro · February 2022

Allllll right. Sshfs with the seedbox mounted works great! All sorted for now. Time to build that media library.

@PulsedMedia how do we pick the winners for the guides?

dosai · February 2022

@ravenchad said:

@yoursunny said:
All these RAM/TB talk…
You don't need Emby to watch movies.

Install VLC Player on your tablet.

Go to "data directory" and copy the link of a movie.

Paste into VLC Player in "network stream" tab.

This requires no extra memory at all.

If there is ever a @yoursunny special plan, it should be modest:

384MB RAM

300GB disk

1TB monthly transfer

€1.2/month billed annually

It's enough for two Wikipedia archives (120GB) and five movies (15GB), with 150GB spare for data backup.

but can it load up subtitle from emby? especially srt file

Use vlsub plugin

david_W · February 2022

M10G 1TB and Dragon-R 500GB, which one is better for idling 99.5% of time?

Disk performance is ~3x better for the Dragon-R. But M10G has that extra 500GB...

Astro · February 2022

@david_W said:
M10G 1TB and Dragon-R 500GB, which one is better for idling 99.5% of time?

Disk performance is ~3x better for the Dragon-R. But M10G has that extra 500GB...

Best solution is to idle both. That premium idling.

PulsedMedia · February 2022

@NoComment said: Just curious, is this 60 euro/hr you mentioned several times only for your local/on-premises employees? Don't you have any outsourced/foreign support handling tickets?

We prefer local for security. Abroad too easy to abuse privileged access. Local? You know you cannot easily get away abusing privileged access.

@Astro said:
Allllll right. Sshfs with the seedbox mounted works great! All sorted for now. Time to build that media library.

@PulsedMedia how do we pick the winners for the guides?

I'll let community largely decide that before making our own pick -- so we can be assured it's the end user point of view.

@Astro said:

@david_W said:
M10G 1TB and Dragon-R 500GB, which one is better for idling 99.5% of time?

Disk performance is ~3x better for the Dragon-R. But M10G has that extra 500GB...

Best solution is to idle both. That premium idling.

@Astro got it right! Idle all the things!

TimboJones · February 2022

@yoursunny said:
If there is ever a @yoursunny special plan, it should be modest:

384MB RAM

300GB disk

1TB monthly transfer

€1.2/month billed annually

It's enough for two Wikipedia archives (120GB) and five movies (15GB), with 150GB spare for data backup.

You fail math.

stab · February 2022

So I tried to use that script to install jellyfin, etc and it seems like it somehow managed to crash my lighttpd instance. Is there some way I can fix this myself without having to open a ticket? I tried deleting the files from .bin and .config and the custom lighttpd rules but nothing seems to fix it.

dgc1980 · February 2022

@stab said: Is there some way I can fix this myself without having to open a ticket

touch .lighttpd/custom to make sure the file is there again, and lighttpd should automatically start up again on its own

Unixfy · February 2022

@stab said: Is there some way I can fix this myself without having to open a ticket? I tried deleting the files from .bin and .config and the custom lighttpd rules but nothing seems to fix it.

Usually it's caused by a configuration error, you can try doing this:

/usr/sbin/lighttpd -f ~/.lighttpd.conf

Then Lighttpd will throw some (helpful) errors in case your config is wrong

dgc1980 · February 2022

I manually upgraded my qBittorrent nicely, will most likely setup a cron script to make sure it stays alive incase of killed processes

edit: this will not keep existing torrents you already import, backup all your magnet links etc before upgrade then reimport them

enable it via your CP, then disabled it after sometime, so it generates a config file.

mkdir -p ~/bin && source ~/.profile
wget -qO ~/bin/qbittorrent-nox https://github.com/userdocs/qbittorrent-nox-static/releases/latest/download/x86_64-qbittorrent-nox
chmod 700 ~/bin/qbittorrent-nox
mv ~/.local/share/qbittorrent ~/.local/share/qBittorrent

then start your local copy with

~/bin/qbittorrent-nox -d

login to your qbittorrent via https://hostnode.pulsedmedia.com/user-XXXX/qbittorrent/ using your username as you signed up, and adminadmin as password, make sure you change it!!!

also check your config for default port, port 8889 that is the default does not work all the time cat ~/.qbittorrentPort and use that port rather than the default port

you will now have a upgraded version to v4.4.0

edit 2: autostart script

mkdir -p ~/scripts

cat > ~/scripts/qbittorrent.sh <<'EOF'
#!/bin/bash
SERVICE="qbittorrent-nox"
if ! ps x | grep -v grep | grep -v grep | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null
then
    ~/bin/qbittorrent-nox -d
fi
EOF

chmod 755 ~/scripts/qbittorrent.sh

after that, edit your crontab crontab -e and insert the following line

*/5 * * * * ~/scripts/qbittorrent.sh 2>&1  > /dev/null

now qbittorrent will check to see if it is running once every 5minutes, if not it will launch it

some ninja edits to fix things

yoursunny · February 2022

@NoComment said:

@yoursunny said: five movies (15GB)

A 1080p movie that is encoded with not much quality loss usually runs anywhere from 8-15 GB. Sometimes slightly more than that.

Search for "720p" and "HEVC".
They are much more compact.
1~2 GB per hour.

Then you have some people who want lossless remux or even the original blurays, or people wanting 4k media. The people who spend the most on seedboxes usually are part of the group that care about the quality of their media.

There's no difference on a $200 phone/tablet in which the display is only 720p.

Astro · February 2022

@yoursunny said:

@NoComment said:

@yoursunny said: five movies (15GB)

A 1080p movie that is encoded with not much quality loss usually runs anywhere from 8-15 GB. Sometimes slightly more than that.

Search for "720p" and "HEVC".
They are much more compact.
1~2 GB per hour.

Then you have some people who want lossless remux or even the original blurays, or people wanting 4k media. The people who spend the most on seedboxes usually are part of the group that care about the quality of their media.

There's no difference on a $200 phone/tablet in which the display is only 720p.

Time to buy a nice 8K TV with push-ups as payment.

jcarlo9 · February 2022

👀

Astro · February 2022

@jcarlo9 said:
👀

Dragon or nothing.

fan · February 2022

Just found a perk of the M10G series, although the raffle only has 4tb of bandwidth, it's still quite useful after exceeding the traffic limit:

Servers are connected at 10Gbps full duplex (10Gbps/10Gbps) speed. Traffic limit counts all upload (including HTTP, FTP, SFTP, Streaming) but only limits torrent upload speed.

Perhaps the same or even better for the Dragon-R's?

PulsedMedia · February 2022

Funny ticket to start the day with, anniversary V10G S on 4xHDD server under load with the YABS FIO results as evidence:

Yucky Disk Speed. Please check for Chia.

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
Block Size  4k (IOPS)   64k (IOPS)
Read    2.49 MB/s (622)     30.27 MB/s (473)
Write   2.50 MB/s (626)     30.62 MB/s (478)
Total   4.99 MB/s (1.2k)    60.89 MB/s (951)

Block Size  512k (IOPS)     1m (IOPS)
------  --- ----    ---- ----
Read    119.00 MB/s (232)   145.47 MB/s (142)
Write   125.32 MB/s (244)   155.16 MB/s (151)
Total   244.32 MB/s (476)   300.64 MB/s (293)

Not too shabby for 4x HDD server under load.

Oh well, he's not alone, just typical the better the promo, the more demanding some people are. Couple on these have seemed to want a dedi for themselves from the raffle

Oh and Chia can run petabytes on USB external drives on a RPi ... I don't imagine running chia harvester would consume anymore on a regular server, or perhaps RPis can break the laws of physics, i don't know.

There's been quite a few now using the script with all the ARR apps, and breaking their things, then expecting us to fix them+compensate / refund.

A lot of people seem not to realize if they customize their service they are responsible for the customizations / configs. Quite a few refund requests because people broke their lighttpd with custom config.

Very excited to see all those guides etc. to exist, but it's not all sunshine and rainbows

The grief we are getting on "helldesk" is just a show of success of the promo tho ! Just sometimes hard to remember when you are starting your day and you are listening to a bunch of complaints, demands and rants how we suck for not providing under 4hr response times for something you got free OR couple of euros.

Got to go take a breather to remember it's actually a good problem to have

@fan said:
Just found a perk of the M10G series, although the raffle only has 4tb of bandwidth, it's still quite useful after exceeding the traffic limit:

Servers are connected at 10Gbps full duplex (10Gbps/10Gbps) speed. Traffic limit counts all upload (including HTTP, FTP, SFTP, Streaming) but only limits torrent upload speed.

Perhaps the same or even better for the Dragon-R's?

Thanks for finding that outdated documentation! Where is it so i can fix it? All upload is counted, on all seedboxes. That text is not on the M10G service page.

Let us know, and open a ticket for small reward.

Astro · February 2022

@PulsedMedia maybe put a disclaimer that there is no support for arr apps during checkout that they have to tick.

PulsedMedia · February 2022

There was a few V10G XS "reservations" just cleared. Also looks like there is almost a ten "reservations" we cannot find the order for the clear them (not active, not free, no pending unpaid order). Curious

Extra server added for the SSD 200G Raffle. V1000 has plenty of free but got couple pending for that too. 5 or 6x 12drive servers waiting for V10G as soon as i figure why preseed raid config is now all of sudden failing.

So plenty of resources already racked + online. Plenty more coming over the next 3 weeks as this celebration runs

fan · February 2022

@PulsedMedia said: Thanks for finding that outdated documentation! Where is it so i can fix it? All upload is counted, on all seedboxes. That text is not on the M10G service page.

Let us know, and open a ticket for small reward.

It's on the M10G plan page of the main site, not the wiki.
https://pulsedmedia.com/m10g-seedbox.php

PulsedMedia · February 2022

@Astro said:
@PulsedMedia maybe put a disclaimer that there is no support for arr apps during checkout that they have to tick.

9/10 users won't even know there is guides / script for those, and probably 8/10 won't care -- so makes no sense to harass everyone because of couple demanding 24/7 One on one live, 5seconds response time or refund types

PulsedMedia · February 2022

@fan said:

@PulsedMedia said: Thanks for finding that outdated documentation! Where is it so i can fix it? All upload is counted, on all seedboxes. That text is not on the M10G service page.

Let us know, and open a ticket for small reward.

It's on the M10G plan page of the main site, not the wiki.
https://pulsedmedia.com/m10g-seedbox.php

Facepalm guess time to go brew some more coffee.

Astro · February 2022

@PulsedMedia said:

@Astro said:
@PulsedMedia maybe put a disclaimer that there is no support for arr apps during checkout that they have to tick.

9/10 users won't even know there is guides / script for those, and probably 8/10 won't care -- so makes no sense to harass everyone because of couple demanding 24/7 One on one live, 5seconds response time or refund types

Maybe add priority support for $10/month. 😂

PulsedMedia · February 2022

@fan said:

@PulsedMedia said: Thanks for finding that outdated documentation! Where is it so i can fix it? All upload is counted, on all seedboxes. That text is not on the M10G service page.

Let us know, and open a ticket for small reward.

It's on the M10G plan page of the main site, not the wiki.
https://pulsedmedia.com/m10g-seedbox.php

and text fixed

and @Astro

RAM amount is guidance what is considered sensible for the plan. This is not enforced yet but will be. Actual hard limit will be double of that to allow burst usage. You will want to average around that amount of RAM usage to maintain top performance; especially with applications such as Deluge.

What V10G page says about RAM and has been the plan from get-go, just forgot there was already a disclaimer too.

Astro · February 2022

@PulsedMedia said:

@fan said:

@PulsedMedia said: Thanks for finding that outdated documentation! Where is it so i can fix it? All upload is counted, on all seedboxes. That text is not on the M10G service page.

Let us know, and open a ticket for small reward.

It's on the M10G plan page of the main site, not the wiki.
https://pulsedmedia.com/m10g-seedbox.php

and text fixed

and @Astro

RAM amount is guidance what is considered sensible for the plan. This is not enforced yet but will be. Actual hard limit will be double of that to allow burst usage. You will want to average around that amount of RAM usage to maintain top performance; especially with applications such as Deluge.

What V10G page says about RAM and has been the plan from get-go, just forgot there was already a disclaimer too.

Sorted

I actually check usage on my node usage. RAM doesn’t seem to be the issue at all. There was like 60-65 GB free but qbittorrent was hammering the CPUs.

hotsnow · February 2022

@PulsedMedia said:
Funny ticket to start the day with, anniversary V10G S on 4xHDD server under load with the YABS FIO results as evidence:

Yucky Disk Speed. Please check for Chia.
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
Block Size    4k (IOPS)   64k (IOPS)
Read  2.49 MB/s (622)     30.27 MB/s (473)
Write     2.50 MB/s (626)     30.62 MB/s (478)
Total     4.99 MB/s (1.2k)    60.89 MB/s (951)
      
Block Size    512k (IOPS)     1m (IOPS)
------    --- ----    ---- ----
Read  119.00 MB/s (232)   145.47 MB/s (142)
Write     125.32 MB/s (244)   155.16 MB/s (151)
Total     244.32 MB/s (476)   300.64 MB/s (293) 
Not too shabby for 4x HDD server under load.

seems this I/O is already very good, much better than my M10G

Yabs on my M10G

Tue Feb 15 15:48:50 EET 2022

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5660  @ 2.80GHz
CPU cores  : 6 @ 2712.954 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 70.8 GiB
Swap       : 5.6 GiB
Disk       : 38.0 TiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 411.00 KB/s    (102) | 5.80 MB/s       (90)
Write      | 432.00 KB/s    (108) | 6.13 MB/s       (95)
Total      | 843.00 KB/s    (210) | 11.93 MB/s     (185)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 22.87 MB/s      (44) | 29.74 MB/s      (29)
Write      | 24.21 MB/s      (47) | 32.54 MB/s      (31)
Total      | 47.08 MB/s      (91) | 62.28 MB/s      (60)

jugganuts · February 2022

X5660 yesh...

PulsedMedia · February 2022

@Astro said:

@PulsedMedia said:

@fan said:

@PulsedMedia said: Thanks for finding that outdated documentation! Where is it so i can fix it? All upload is counted, on all seedboxes. That text is not on the M10G service page.

Let us know, and open a ticket for small reward.

It's on the M10G plan page of the main site, not the wiki.
https://pulsedmedia.com/m10g-seedbox.php

and text fixed

and @Astro

RAM amount is guidance what is considered sensible for the plan. This is not enforced yet but will be. Actual hard limit will be double of that to allow burst usage. You will want to average around that amount of RAM usage to maintain top performance; especially with applications such as Deluge.

What V10G page says about RAM and has been the plan from get-go, just forgot there was already a disclaimer too.

Sorted

I actually check usage on my node usage. RAM doesn’t seem to be the issue at all. There was like 60-65 GB free but qbittorrent was hammering the CPUs.

If finally after 12 years CPUs start to get hammering, perhaps people will start actually paying for that then with the SSD, M10G and Dragon-R. That's the reason why haven't put much emphasis on CPU; People like to rant about lowly CPUs, but lowly CPUs sit at 95% idle, and very few is willing to actually pay the extra for spending 1500-3500€ on base node instead of 500€

We are looking now into getting Discord running, anyone who has been active on this thread and wants to join already PM me for the invite link

elliotc · February 2022

@hotsnow said:

@PulsedMedia said:
Funny ticket to start the day with, anniversary V10G S on 4xHDD server under load with the YABS FIO results as evidence:

Yucky Disk Speed. Please check for Chia.
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
Block Size  4k (IOPS)   64k (IOPS)
Read    2.49 MB/s (622)     30.27 MB/s (473)
Write   2.50 MB/s (626)     30.62 MB/s (478)
Total   4.99 MB/s (1.2k)    60.89 MB/s (951)
        
Block Size  512k (IOPS)     1m (IOPS)
------  --- ----    ---- ----
Read    119.00 MB/s (232)   145.47 MB/s (142)
Write   125.32 MB/s (244)   155.16 MB/s (151)
Total   244.32 MB/s (476)   300.64 MB/s (293) 
Not too shabby for 4x HDD server under load.

seems this I/O is already very good, much better than my M10G

Yabs on my M10G

Tue Feb 15 15:48:50 EET 2022

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5660  @ 2.80GHz
CPU cores  : 6 @ 2712.954 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 70.8 GiB
Swap       : 5.6 GiB
Disk       : 38.0 TiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 411.00 KB/s    (102) | 5.80 MB/s       (90)
Write      | 432.00 KB/s    (108) | 6.13 MB/s       (95)
Total      | 843.00 KB/s    (210) | 11.93 MB/s     (185)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 22.87 MB/s      (44) | 29.74 MB/s      (29)
Write      | 24.21 MB/s      (47) | 32.54 MB/s      (31)
Total      | 47.08 MB/s      (91) | 62.28 MB/s      (60)

My M10G is better than the V10G. I haven't done any bench, just feeling. In fact, there is no need for a bench, because the difference is obvious.

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