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Get a seedbox with storage. About $5-$10 a month can get you quite decent boxes in torrent friendly countries
Decent but not in size. Not for those long seed times with big sizes.
500gb at best at the price.
And good luck getting seedboxes with unlimited upload
I have seen seedboxes with 3, or maybe 4TB of storage under $10 (don't remember). And that's recent (about a month ago). Yes, unlimited uploads are definitely an issue. Such cases are best combated with buying an IPv6 slot and putting that on a VPS with a provider friendly to such things (they exist at reasonable prices)
Not if you want public trackers well.
But your point about ipv6 sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?
There are providers who are OK with public trackers and don't care about DMCAs.
In principle, torrenting over IPv6 is the same as doing it over IPv4, it's just that there's a lot of IPv6 addresses so you might find it cheaper to buy IPv6. Yes there are some differences in the technology but from purely an operational POV, it's not very different.
The reason I mentioned bringing your own IPs is related to the reason why providers don't like public torrents: it pollutes their IP space and puts their IP ranges on blacklists. But if you bring your own IPs, suddenly the provider (in theory) is safe and doesn't care as much. YMMV of course, send an email to your provider of choice to ask more.
bring your own IP? Don't you need to register as someone with a node and do BGP routing protocols (forgot the specific terms for the objects)
Which is why not every provider supports BYOIP
A good general suggestion. The WAF I follow are 'reasonable' expense, reasonable form factor, and a physical investment. I floated the idea of a VPS and that's when I learned of the third criteria. It is what it is.
I just started on this 8tb HDD so it isn't very full right now, I could raise the ratio limits. But, I worry about filling the HDD and part of me worries about 100s of torrents on an n100 doing other things. So I'm keeping the habit from my pi4+1TB days of deleting media behind us and keeping the torrent count low.
I justify it as self managing though: popular Isos are on then off my harddrive fairly quickly, but the ones that need me will sit and wait until they hit the ratio of 3 however long that is. I would like to do "3 + (get that last seeder to 100%)" but I don't know how/if it's possible to automate through prowlarr.
I tend to seed rarer stuff till my ratio reaches 10, sometimes 15 on a case-by-case basis