Torrentflux or rTorrent is the most suitable (my case)?

MeMyselfandLinux · April 2012

Hi,LET
i want to setup simple torrent server,my need is

I just need to transfer file from torrent server to my box (and then i download it via normal download manager)
because some ports are blocked in my school

Its private,and i dont need to seed function
because i only use it occaniously

i have low end dual core xen with 128/128 memory
so which one do you suggest,torrentflux or rtorrent??

yomero · April 2012

rtorrent

I am too lazy to install torrentflux, plus web server, php bla bla

quirkyquark · April 2012

@MeMyselfandLinux said: i have low end dual core xen with 128/128 memory

so which one do you suggest,torrentflux or rtorrent??

Have you used the rtorrent CLI before? If not, and "simple" means a web interface (by your choice of torrentflux), I heartily recommend qbittorrent-nox. It's a one-piece webGUI/daemon and does not require a separate web server. It's run great for me on an OVZ 128/128 (vSwap) and another OVZ 128/128 (Burst), so I imagine it will run even better on Xen.

yomero · April 2012

@quirkyquark said: It's a one-piece webGUI/daemon and does not require a separate web server.

That sounds better

quirkyquark · April 2012

@MeMyselfandLinux said: Its private,and i dont need to seed function

because i only use it occaniously

Also, you should double check your VPS providers policy on torrents -- a lot of them don't allow it. If you won't be seeding but just leeching -- bad karma, I know, but I've been on a dorm network too -- you can try risking it, but disable UDP/DHT and set a sane upload limit. Needless to say, quit when you're done.

Of course, it helps if you are an EE/CS/IT major...one spoofed MAC and I could be on the 100+ mbits/sec core in the lab at 3 AM

Raymii · April 2012

rtorrent +1. torrentflux and torrentflux-b4rt cannot do trackerless torrents or magnet links. I do not know about rtorrent but my home seedbox was torrentflux, now is deluged+webui because of tpd ditched all the torent files...

kalam · April 2012

rutorrent with rtorrent obviously.

cosmicgate · April 2012

torrent flux with fuck up your 128mb bro.

gsrdgrdghd · April 2012

Deluge also has a nice webinterface (standalone) but i don't know if it runs on 128mb

Asim · April 2012

I prefer utorrent since my windows-desktop client and the webclient will have the same interface, one package does it all

djvdorp · April 2012

@quirkyquark said: Also, you should double check your VPS providers policy on torrents -- a lot of them don't allow it. If you won't be seeding but just leeching -- bad karma, I know, but I've been on a dorm network too -- you can try risking it, but disable UDP/DHT and set a sane upload limit. Needless to say, quit when you're done.

BuyVM does afaik

quirkyquark · April 2012

@Asim said: I prefer utorrent

uTorrent on Wine on a 128MB VPS is asking for trouble...

The qbittorrent-nox webGUI has a nice uTorrent-ish interface. I decided to test it out on the closest VPS I have, a 128MB Xen. Here's a screenshot, downloading 4 torrents @ ~16 MB/sec (Beeb documentaries to be safe

And the associated htop screenshot... about 27M res, with load stable around 0.30 -- the GUI's built in, not related to the running apache.