How to Set Up a Seedbox on a Linux VPS

Note: This guide is from 2014. VPS pricing has moved since, and the linked Transmission installer script may no longer be maintained, review it before running it (as the guide already tells you to) or look for a current alternative. The general approach, a small VPS running Transmission behind a web UI, still works fine. In this guide we’ll set up a seedbox (a BitTorrent client running on a remote server) on a Linux VPS in four steps. Once it’s running, you can queue downloads from any browser and pull completed files down to your local machine when ready. ...

May 13, 2014 · 2 min · 414 words · root