Feels very redditty, which is why I'm asking...
Also, what are total buffer size (what does it affect) and session waste (what does it affect)? qbittorrent-nox on Linux.
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Keep it seeding? 🤷
Or what is stopping you
My system moves and renames files rather than linking them so anything still seeding is taking up double the storage.
Then start hardlinking instead of moving.
(at least if it's the same storage volume)
6 months x 0 upload is still zero upload. I permaseed most things but since I don't use a seedbox, I miss out on a lot of upload credit on new files since my home internet connection can't compete with a seedbox's upload credit. Luckily most trackers account for this and give you bonuses based on seed time so it doesnt really matter and having a mix of fast but short-lived seeders along with slower but long term seeders helps everyone.
I have (need) a seedbox and can't really relate. But if you host it on your server that can perma-run it's not much different to what I am using.
And just seeding will not guarantee any traffic. I have torrents that I cross-seed with wildly different ratios.
My advice:
See if you are even reachable (port-forward/no cg-nat)
Try to move to a system that can 24/7
Unless your home internet has multi-gigabit upload, you'll never be able to compete with seedbox users when new uploads drop and everyone is downloading them at the same time. Your seedbox can upload at 10x-100x the rate my home internet can which is why seedbox users capture all the seeding credit on new uploads. Once a file has been out a day or two, the only people downloading are new users or people who aren't using automation tools like sonarr/radarr which are few and far between.
The tradeoff here is that your seedbox storage capacity several orders of magnitude lower than my 50TB home server, so I can keep these files seeding forever much like the parable about the tortoise and the hare (though without the deeper meaning).
My seedbox is connected at gbit speed, yep
But I don't seed at that.
Maybe at 5-10 mbps on newer popular stuff and only the large popular ones will I crack the 20 mbps range.
Why? I suspect SSD seedboxes are "stealing" my rario, too.
I am also in it for the long game with mine and download the smaller less important releases through usenet.