Hi guys,
Sorry I'm a little new to torrenting and all the technical stuff that comes with it. But a friend of mine offered me a server from OVH and said I could use it as a seedbox. I have no idea how I would do that. Is it even possible? Are there any guides online that explain how to set up a seedbox? He told me to google it (lol) but I can't find anything simple and it all seems super hard.

Thanks for any help! =)

Just get a normal seedbox to save you the trouble, also I heard that ovh sometimes throttle torrents..not sure though.

yes, there are a few guides out there .
quite alot of them geared towards ovh servers and how to turn them into a seedbox via various scripts.
i would hit google, and there are a quite a few youtube videos as well.

i would point you to the one i used but it didnt quite come out flawless and i had to do some tweaking and scripting on my end to get it up and working.
basic knowledge of command line is a great asset.

Originally Posted by 3u4f89b

Just get a normal seedbox to save you the trouble, also I heard that ovh sometimes throttle torrents..not sure though.

i havent seen a lot of throttling on my end. but a lot of private trackers use ovh and leaseweb in their peering. so, its meh

Originally Posted by mmanuk

i havent seen a lot of throttling on my end. but a lot of private trackers use ovh and leaseweb in their peering. so, its meh

Thanks for the clarification.

All the seedboxes that exist are either from LeaseWeb or OVH.

Setting up a seedbox depends on your server's OS (likely a Linux distro). http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+make+your+own+seedbox

You have a nice friend! I recently setup my seedbox using this guide:

http://transmissionseedbox.blogspot....tos-6.html?m=1

I used the script in the last part of the comment section. Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by mmanuk

i havent seen a lot of throttling on my end. but a lot of private trackers use ovh and leaseweb in their peering. so, its meh

yes I can confirm that. I use couple of dedis. Clients I used are transmission and rutorrents. They let you use upto 100Mbit/sec. But there are no 1Gbps plans available.

Soyoustart is a separate OVH brand which provides 1Gbps boxes. The prices are pretty good even though they have increased their prices overall. Kimsufi has still unbeatable money-to-value ratio, but all of them have 100mbps cap.

Originally Posted by Cerid1955

Soyoustart is a separate OVH brand which provides 1Gbps boxes. The prices are pretty good even though they have increased their prices overall. Kimsufi has still unbeatable money-to-value ratio, but all of them have 100mbps cap.

soyoustart is a gbit downlink, however, uplink is capped to 250mbit.
the pro servers at ovh are all minimum 1gbit down and also capped at 500mbit up, but u can pay about $50 more a month to get 1gbit dedicated. mind you, the more high end ovh pro servers can reach up to 3 or 10gbit