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I'd suggest looking into "seedboxes" which are intended for torrenting.

I suspect the storage will be a bigger concern.

Seedhost.eu has dedicated boxes with 8TB storage and 100TB bandwidth for €30/month. Perhaps you could have that and a lower spec one to make up the space.

Prices are negotiable so you can always see if they can meet your needs for cheaper than two separate boxes.




> I'd suggest looking into "seedboxes" which are intended for torrenting.

Though be aware that many (most?) seedbox arrangements have no redundancy, in fact some are running off RAID0 arrays or similar. Host has a problem like a dead drive: bang goes your data. Some are very open about this, afterall for the main use case cheap space is worth the risk, some far less so…

Of course if the data is well backed up elsewhere or otherwise easy to reproduce or reobtain this may not be a massive issue and you've just got restore time to worry about (unless one of your backups can be quickly made primary so restore time is as little as a bit of DNS & other configuration work).


Yep, resellers of dedicated machines rent servers in bulk so you can often get boxes for way cheaper than you would directly from the host. Take a look at https://hostingby.design as an example.


I've been using a HostingBy.Design seedbox (formerly Seedbox.io) for years to distribute content to my patrons for 3 years. They have excellent uptime and their customer service is knowledgeable.


I actually signed up for one of their boxes last night based on your recommendation. Good so far.


Looks like they are just a reseller of Hetzner and Leaseweb?


Ultra.cc is pretty great too.




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