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x1arch · December 2025

@rohitsingh1333 said:
Red> @x1arch said:

@rohitsingh1333 said:
@x1arch man, I have mounted storage box with rclone mount using ftp, everything is perfect initially, the speeds are as expected, it goes upto 40MBps but after about half to one hour, spontaneously on immich the download speed reduces to 1-2MBps.

Could find the reason behind it.

Is it throttling or rclone related issue?

Reduced and stay small all the time or back? Is reconnect helps? Try to change ftp to sftp or some else supported protocol.

Reduced and stay reduced until I reconnect.

Once I reconnect it works great again.

Try --ftp-concurrency and disable the mod time --size-only --no-update-modtime --no-update-dir-modtime. Actually I have no hostbrr box and I can't test it.

anbarg · December 2025

I use WebDAV with auth to share media files between laptop locations. Why reinvent the wheel? @x1arch @Zephyr for VPS would that be best as a docker of it?

rohitsingh1333 · December 2025

@x1arch said:

@rohitsingh1333 said:
Red> @x1arch said:

@rohitsingh1333 said:
@x1arch man, I have mounted storage box with rclone mount using ftp, everything is perfect initially, the speeds are as expected, it goes upto 40MBps but after about half to one hour, spontaneously on immich the download speed reduces to 1-2MBps.

Could find the reason behind it.

Is it throttling or rclone related issue?

Reduced and stay small all the time or back? Is reconnect helps? Try to change ftp to sftp or some else supported protocol.

Reduced and stay reduced until I reconnect.

Once I reconnect it works great again.

Try --ftp-concurrency and disable the mod time --size-only --no-update-modtime --no-update-dir-modtime. Actually I have no hostbrr box and I can't test it.

This is my config -
/usr/local/bin/rclone mount hostbrr:storage/ /mnt/immich \
--vfs-cache-mode full \
--allow-other \
--transfers 10 \
--attr-timeout 1m \
--vfs-write-back 30s \
--multi-thread-streams 32 \
--vfs-read-chunk-streams 8 \
--vfs-read-chunk-size 32M \
--vfs-fast-fingerprint \
--vfs-cache-max-age 480h \
--buffer-size 64M \
--vfs-cache-max-size 15G \
--no-checksum \
--no-modtime \
--allow-non-empty \
--uid 1001 \
--gid 1001 \
--umask 000

x1arch · December 2025

@rohitsingh1333 said:

@x1arch said:

@rohitsingh1333 said:
Red> @x1arch said:

@rohitsingh1333 said:
@x1arch man, I have mounted storage box with rclone mount using ftp, everything is perfect initially, the speeds are as expected, it goes upto 40MBps but after about half to one hour, spontaneously on immich the download speed reduces to 1-2MBps.

Could find the reason behind it.

Is it throttling or rclone related issue?

Reduced and stay small all the time or back? Is reconnect helps? Try to change ftp to sftp or some else supported protocol.

Reduced and stay reduced until I reconnect.

Once I reconnect it works great again.

Try --ftp-concurrency and disable the mod time --size-only --no-update-modtime --no-update-dir-modtime. Actually I have no hostbrr box and I can't test it.

This is my config -
/usr/local/bin/rclone mount hostbrr:storage/ /mnt/immich \
--vfs-cache-mode full \
--allow-other \
--transfers 10 \
--attr-timeout 1m \
--vfs-write-back 30s \
--multi-thread-streams 32 \
--vfs-read-chunk-streams 8 \
--vfs-read-chunk-size 32M \
--vfs-fast-fingerprint \
--vfs-cache-max-age 480h \
--buffer-size 64M \
--vfs-cache-max-size 15G \
--no-checksum \
--no-modtime \
--allow-non-empty \
--uid 1001 \
--gid 1001 \
--umask 000

So many options, try to run in default mode and check is it happens again, if not add your options one by one and test. Sorry I can't test it for you, because have no hostbrr box. For me --no-modtime fixed my issue totally.

akrdev · December 2025

How to use storage box ? My domain still doesn't work.

Motion3549 · December 2025

@anbarg said:
I use WebDAV with auth to share media files between laptop locations. Why reinvent the wheel? @x1arch @Zephyr for VPS would that be best as a docker of it?

Some selfhosted apps sometimes do not offer encryption at rest, I know it is debatable but yeah you do you.

anbarg · December 2025

wow 2TB! 10TB at what port speed tho?

zephyr32 · December 2025

@anbarg said:
I use WebDAV with auth to share media files between laptop locations. Why reinvent the wheel? @x1arch @Zephyr for VPS would that be best as a docker of it?

As far as i know webdav is faster for streaming that ftp/sftp.
Regarding docker,I've met problems with containers recognising webdav mounts so i avoid them in general.

lurch · December 2025

@labze said:

@zejjnt said:

@dannychou said:
Invoice #77801

I bought a "StorageBox 500 GB", it shows PENDING, why?

Manual activation, Labze MIA. Hope he comes back any second now because this is starting to worry as he is always really fast.

I am lurking. Just dealing with a lot of tickets. The sales has been wildly successful, but the downside is the ticket queue. I am working my way towards it and not opening new deals until all is resolved.

Unfortunately a large portion of tickets are in the "emergency" for people who want to get a offer that isn't available anymore or have minor issues. It screws up the ticket handling quite a lot.

Any idea when the Turin restock you mentioned will be as it didn't happen "tomorrow"

anbarg · December 2025

Storageboxes on the world wide web. These are perfect for backup storage, hosting your websites with large storage needs and so on without worrying about managing a VPS.

wait wait wait...

not a VPS?

@labze what did I buy exactly? I want to install

https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-chromium/

davi · December 2025

Dear @labze,
I missed most of the deals this year and I’m now checking if there’s still any chance to get one. If you happen to have an available BFRESELL2025 code for the 70% discount on your cPanel reseller hosting, I would really appreciate if you could share it.

Thanks in advance!

yitiantiandeshuo · December 2025

Ticket #2999736

Hello, I have already opened a ticket requesting to change the storage box from Germany to the United States. It is still in a pending state and has not been deployed yet. I hope it can be deployed directly in the US instead of migrating later.

philwatcher · December 2025

@anbarg said:

Storageboxes on the world wide web. These are perfect for backup storage, hosting your websites with large storage needs and so on without worrying about managing a VPS.

wait wait wait...

not a VPS?

@labze what did I buy exactly? I want to install

https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-chromium/

You bought a webhosting package on steroids. It supports hosting websites and access to the filesystem through SSH/SFTP/FTP/WebDAV. Most of us here use it to store their backup data or mount it on another VPS as remote-hosted filesystem. When you login through SSH, you get an extremely limited bash environment. You can't install any software onto the storagebox (except for a few web applications from softaculous).
Also, you bought a lot of online storage for very cheap.

If you want to install any software, you'll need a "proper" VPS.

anbarg · December 2025

@philwatcher

Can I send stuff from the storagebox to FTP elsewhere?

mount it on another VPS as remote-hosted filesystem

ooooh. Please don't make me fight the search ai. Can I have some hints?

ehab · December 2025

@rohitsingh1333 said:

Try --ftp-concurrency and disable the mod time --size-only --no-update-modtime --no-update-dir-modtime. Actually I have no hostbrr box and I can't test it.

This is my config -
/usr/local/bin/rclone mount hostbrr:storage/ /mnt/immich \
--vfs-cache-mode full \
--allow-other \
--transfers 10 \
--attr-timeout 1m \
--vfs-write-back 30s \
--multi-thread-streams 32 \
--vfs-read-chunk-streams 8 \
--vfs-read-chunk-size 32M \
--vfs-fast-fingerprint \
--vfs-cache-max-age 480h \
--buffer-size 64M \
--vfs-cache-max-size 15G \
--no-checksum \
--no-modtime \
--allow-non-empty \
--uid 1001 \
--gid 1001 \
--umask 000

wow .. why so picky? really all this is needed!

Astro · December 2025

Anyone wants to transfer me this?

EPIC-EPYC BF2025
4 vCore AMD EPYC 9655
16 GB DDR5 ECC RAM
160 GB 320 GB NVMe Gen4 Storage
40 TB 80 TB TBBandwidth @ 10 Gbps
IPv4 & **IPv6/64 included
**1 Backup slot included
DDOS Protection
Hosted in Frankfurt, Germany
€9/month
€90/year

ehab · December 2025

@Astro said:
Anyone wants to transfer me this?

EPIC-EPYC BF2025
4 vCore AMD EPYC 9655
16 GB DDR5 ECC RAM
160 GB 320 GB NVMe Gen4 Storage
40 TB 80 TB TBBandwidth @ 10 Gbps
IPv4 & **IPv6/64 included
**1 Backup slot included
DDOS Protection
Hosted in Frankfurt, Germany
€9/month
€90/year

who was that and did you try and ask nicely the provider ?

Astro · December 2025

@ehab said: who was that and did you try and ask nicely the provider ?

@labze my beautiful beautiful provider, can I please have this sir?

rohitsingh1333 · December 2025

@ehab said:

@rohitsingh1333 said:

Try --ftp-concurrency and disable the mod time --size-only --no-update-modtime --no-update-dir-modtime. Actually I have no hostbrr box and I can't test it.

This is my config -
/usr/local/bin/rclone mount hostbrr:storage/ /mnt/immich \
--vfs-cache-mode full \
--allow-other \
--transfers 10 \
--attr-timeout 1m \
--vfs-write-back 30s \
--multi-thread-streams 32 \
--vfs-read-chunk-streams 8 \
--vfs-read-chunk-size 32M \
--vfs-fast-fingerprint \
--vfs-cache-max-age 480h \
--buffer-size 64M \
--vfs-cache-max-size 15G \
--no-checksum \
--no-modtime \
--allow-non-empty \
--uid 1001 \
--gid 1001 \
--umask 000

wow .. why so picky? really all this is needed!

I mostly used those things for some other server and now trying with storagebox

mltobing · December 2025

@philwatcher said:

@anbarg said:

Storageboxes on the world wide web. These are perfect for backup storage, hosting your websites with large storage needs and so on without worrying about managing a VPS.

wait wait wait...

not a VPS?

@labze what did I buy exactly? I want to install

https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-chromium/

You bought a webhosting package on steroids. It supports hosting websites and access to the filesystem through SSH/SFTP/FTP/WebDAV. Most of us here use it to store their backup data or mount it on another VPS as remote-hosted filesystem. When you login through SSH, you get an extremely limited bash environment. You can't install any software onto the storagebox (except for a few web applications from softaculous).
Also, you bought a lot of online storage for very cheap.

If you want to install any software, you'll need a "proper" VPS.

@philwatcher How to enable WebDAV support?

daspork · December 2025

I was helped by some of the above and pointed in the right direction so I thought I would add this gist of a user systemd unit that's nice and usable. The instructions are pretty good.

rclone mount systemd unit

One thing I would point out is that it uses the virtual cache as written, that means file operations wont "block". I disabled that on mine since I'm doing scripting that relies on the block until a file is copied.

Thanks again for all the above that pointed me to using shared hosting with rclone. Works so well and crazy price.

schneitomee · December 2025

@Astro said:
Anyone wants to transfer me this?

EPIC-EPYC BF2025
4 vCore AMD EPYC 9655
16 GB DDR5 ECC RAM
160 GB 320 GB NVMe Gen4 Storage
40 TB 80 TB TBBandwidth @ 10 Gbps
IPv4 & **IPv6/64 included
**1 Backup slot included
DDOS Protection
Hosted in Frankfurt, Germany
€9/month
€90/year

Try the anniversary package: my.hostbrr.com/order/main/packages/anniversary/?group_id=59

rohitsingh1333 · December 2025

@ehab said:

@rohitsingh1333 said:

Try --ftp-concurrency and disable the mod time --size-only --no-update-modtime --no-update-dir-modtime. Actually I have no hostbrr box and I can't test it.

This is my config -
/usr/local/bin/rclone mount hostbrr:storage/ /mnt/immich \
--vfs-cache-mode full \
--allow-other \
--transfers 10 \
--attr-timeout 1m \
--vfs-write-back 30s \
--multi-thread-streams 32 \
--vfs-read-chunk-streams 8 \
--vfs-read-chunk-size 32M \
--vfs-fast-fingerprint \
--vfs-cache-max-age 480h \
--buffer-size 64M \
--vfs-cache-max-size 15G \
--no-checksum \
--no-modtime \
--allow-non-empty \
--uid 1001 \
--gid 1001 \
--umask 000

wow .. why so picky? really all this is needed!

I mostly used those things for some other server and now trying with storagebox> @ehab said:

@rohitsingh1333 said:

Try --ftp-concurrency and disable the mod time --size-only --no-update-modtime --no-update-dir-modtime. Actually I have no hostbrr box and I can't test it.

This is my config -
/usr/local/bin/rclone mount hostbrr:storage/ /mnt/immich \
--vfs-cache-mode full \
--allow-other \
--transfers 10 \
--attr-timeout 1m \
--vfs-write-back 30s \
--multi-thread-streams 32 \
--vfs-read-chunk-streams 8 \
--vfs-read-chunk-size 32M \
--vfs-fast-fingerprint \
--vfs-cache-max-age 480h \
--buffer-size 64M \
--vfs-cache-max-size 15G \
--no-checksum \
--no-modtime \
--allow-non-empty \
--uid 1001 \
--gid 1001 \
--umask 000

wow .. why so picky? really all this is needed!

It is definitely way better than stock performance

philwatcher · December 2025

@anbarg said:
@philwatcher

Can I send stuff from the storagebox to FTP elsewhere?

mount it on another VPS as remote-hosted filesystem

ooooh. Please don't make me fight the search ai. Can I have some hints?

I posted a complete step by step a few pages ago

crystalshower · December 2025

Is anyone using Storagebox for Plex mount? Is it good?

Haggboss · December 2025

@crystalshower said:
Is anyone using Storagebox for Plex mount? Is it good?

I'm trying it out with the offer I bought from ColoCrossing. I bought 4TB of US storage and it seems to be working well. I've only streamed in 1080p (4GB). I'll try 4K (10 to 20GB).

insivimu · December 2025

Can I select the Linux distribution and install packages on a Storagebox?

labze · December 2025

@insivimu said:
Can I select the Linux distribution and install packages on a Storagebox?

No

edrebe · December 2025

No.

StorageBox is a shared hosting service that uses DirectAdmin and has Softaculos for installing apps.

✔️ Good price for my automated backups using Rclone, Rsync, and PHP script

insivimu · December 2025

@edrebe said:
No.

StorageBox is a shared hosting service that uses DirectAdmin and has Softaculos for installing apps.

✔️ Good price for my automated backups using Rclone, Rsync, and PHP script

Can it be used as a remote backup location with BorgBackup?

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