Ideas on where to store and run torrent applications non-stop

**Master Razor** · 27.02.17, 22:43

The question is a little ambiguous but I'll try to explain.
For the past two years I have been using company infrastructure to run torrent applications and torrent clients. It's been great, had 3 laptops, startup batch file, with automatic reboot every 80 days, wonderful. Some changes occured and I cannot do this anymore.

Question 1.
I need some other alternatives in order to host non-stop the following windows tools:

mratio
rmp
userenity

I only need a 24/7 windows machine that will just run them. No bandwidth will be consumed as there are no download or upload involved.
Anything available for free? If not, can something like this be bought?

Question 2.
I also need to seed some torrents from some trackers.
Besides seedboxes what are other alternatives? And if seedboxes are the only way, what would be an ok 1GB/sec seedbox? I'm interested in a cheap one.

Thank you for your patience and guidance.

**anon** · 28.02.17, 05:46

Originally Posted by Master Razor

I only need a 24/7 windows machine that will just run them. No bandwidth will be consumed as there are no download or upload involved.
Anything available for free? If not, can something like this be bought?

Get some ultra-low power consumption computer that can run Windows like an Intel Compute Stick, Asus EEE PC or iPAQ. Install Windows and your programs, then hook it to your network (or some cracked wireless from nearby, with a static IP) and leave it running. That's as close to free as you can get, otherwise...

I also need to seed some torrents from some trackers.
Besides seedboxes what are other alternatives? And if seedboxes are the only way, what would be an ok 1GB/sec seedbox? I'm interested in a cheap one.

Can't help on this one directly, it's been a long time since I last used a seedbox and I don't know who the good players are now. However, if you want to do the research and price hunting yourself, make sure to also consider non-seedbox servers where you do the set up yourself, those can be cheaper.

And if you manage to get a Windows dedicated server with remote desktop, you could run your torrents and cheating tools there!

**Master Razor** · 28.02.17, 08:53

I have spare computers at my home that I could use for this but I cannot keep it 24/7. The power consumption alone is disturbing, as well as noises and other factors.

**Sazzy** · 28.02.17, 19:50

An intel compute stick will use hardly any power and won't make any noise.
Or something like the Intel Desktop Board D945GSEJT.

Honestly, unless your electricity costs a ton, you'll hardly notice it.

I once did the math for my media center pc, which is running an Intel g3420, and it costs me less than 30 dollars a year to keep it on 24/7.

**anon** · 01.03.17, 04:09

Originally Posted by Master Razor

I have spare computers at my home that I could use for this but I cannot keep it 24/7. The power consumption alone is disturbing, as well as noises and other factors.

That's why I suggested a low-power computer. An ASUS EEE netbook uses around 12 Wh with the display turned off; if you remove the hard disk and replace it with booting from an SD card, you could even reduce it by 2 or 3 watts. The Intel stick uses just 2.45 Wh when idle. Round that up to 3 or 4 by adding the power required by the wireless radio or a USB Ethernet adapter, and it's still amazingly low. Noise is out of the question too, the tiny fans on these things are almost inaudible and don't even spin all the time.

Yes, you'll have to shell out money to buy them, but I can't think of any solutions that are completely free.

**Sazzy** · 01.03.17, 12:57

Getting a VPS or a seedbox isn't free either though.
Getting the intell stick or netbook will be cheaper on the long term and offer far higher usability. (e.g. a seedbox will seed, but your netbook might control your Philips hue lights, play videos on your tv, play music on your stereo, web server, etc etc)

**anon** · 02.03.17, 07:11

More ideas: http://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?t=24692, running a NAS, running an ownCloud, and if you're really buff, turning it into a Windows-based router replacement.

**Master Razor** · 02.03.17, 08:04

Getting a VPS or a seedbox isn't free either though.

I know.

Or something like the Intel Desktop Board D945GSEJT.

Are these part of those mini-pc's ?

An intel compute stick will use hardly any power and won't make any noise.

But how will it work, exactly? I mean, it has plugged in a computer USB port, doesn't it? Does it defeat the purpose?

An ASUS EEE netbook uses around 12 Wh with the display turned off

Yes, that will work. low power and very little heat produced.

running a NAS, running an ownCloud, and if you're really buff, turning it into a Windows-based router replacement.

I'll look that up but I don't think windows can be installed on those.

**anon** · 03.03.17, 04:09

Originally Posted by Master Razor

But how will it work, exactly? I mean, it has plugged in a computer USB port, doesn't it? Does it defeat the purpose?

It comes with an AC adapter.

**Lucius** · 03.03.17, 09:12

Originally Posted by Master Razor

But how will it work, exactly? I mean, it has plugged in a computer USB port, doesn't it? Does it defeat the purpose?

it has an HDMI port so you can hook it to a monitor by which it takes the power to boot, that's for the stick.
There is others with an AC adapter (I remember Gigabyte made one) which can you use monitor-free

Also, you can use dd-wrt or OpenWrt to run the torrent client on your router, Currently all cheating tools can't be running on linux.

**anon** · 04.03.17, 02:33

Originally Posted by Lucius

Also, you can use dd-wrt or OpenWrt to run the torrent client on your router

If running RM+ and the others wasn't a requirement, I'd absolutely recommend this. A TL-MR3020 router costs less than $20, drains 0.6 Wh with OpenWrt installed (not counting whatever you plug in the USB port, of course) and can do just about anything, including seeding torrents.

If you're able to buy from abroad, there's a Chinese seller on eBay offering a custom build of the (even smaller) TL-WR703N, with twice as much RAM and flash space, for about the same price.

**Lucius** · 04.03.17, 18:42

I am currently studying modding libtorrent so we can use the modded in Deluge, torrent or qbt.
I just got stuck in how to control it generally without relying on the real client. I don't want to mod every client we want to support.

**anon** · 08.05.17, 05:05

So, what became of this?

**Master Razor** · 08.05.17, 12:48

Well, running a router with OpenWRT to seed torrents will not work because you need lots of RAM and CPU to seed these torrents. We are talking about seeding 2000 torrents via mratio, RMP, RatioMaster, uSerenity. The RAM and CPU alone will kill any consumer-based router. HDD is no issue because these are just seeded with no files whatsoever.

I'm going to have buy a NAS for real seeding and a Intel Compute Stick, or Asus EEE PC or Raspberry Pie for 27/7/365 fake seed. Not quite sure which one to buy.
At the time of writing this, money is scarce so no investment will be done.