I’m spinning up a new seedbox and wanted to know what is everyone using nowadays? I was using deluge via the thick client and rutorrent previously. Are they still king? edit: I should have also mentioned that I plan on running this server headless so I will need to be able to access it via a thin client or a web browser
I’ve had a poor experience with Deluge, a bug report completely disregarded years ago as I wasn’t able to provide (very technical) details to the developers without some assistance, which they smugly refused to provide (I don’t act entitled). I then stumbled upon a post where one of them discussed the reason why they wouldn’t add workarounds in the installer as qBittorrent did (firewall exception and a couple of other things I can’t recall right now), their reasoning and their wording struck me as strongly ideological, and it made me uneasy. I’ve had a similar experience with Affinity developers who (again, by way of ideology) refused to add an “interface scale” parameter to their programs, adamant on letting the OS handle the scaling, even though I couldn’t change my OS scale because it messed up other programs. Their response was “it’s the other program’s fault”. Very helpful. 👍🏼
Anyway, I was trying to say I don’t like Deluge. To answer your question I know it runs via a variety of interfaces so I wouldn’t be surprised it’s your best bet. I personally use qBittorrent .
transmission in docker container on NAS, with dedicated IP that gets forced through VPN on my router
qBittorrent here.
+1 for qBittorrent. I used to be a Deluge fan, but qBittorrent seems more performant and feature-packed.
arch-qbittorrentvpn docker container, because it was the easiest to set up on my TrueNAS home server.
Still qbittorrent. Docker container with web UI makes it trivial.
qBittorrent and rtorrent are very popular.
qBittorrent is probably the most commonly used client. Transmission is another popular option, especially among macOS users, since it has a familiar design and feels more native.
rTorrent is great if you want a CLI app, and ruTorrent offers a web frontend. Another option that you can run on a server is Deluge.
You can control qBittorrent from Android using qBitController or from iOS using qBitControl (you can get it from AltStore after adding the Michael-128 repo). Transdroid supports other clients as well, and it’s my personal favorite. If you want to torrent on the Android device itself, check out LibreTorrent. For iOS, use iTorrent (also available on AltStore).
If you already plan on self-hosting, or have root access on your seed box (or some other way of installing applications/deploying Docker containers), I also recommend setting up bitmagnet. It’s basically your own torrent indexer and search engine. It can also integrate with your *arr applications.
Do you use altstore? Have you tried livecontainer to avoid the 3 app limit?
I don’t think that applies when using the EU version and Apple’s new sideloading framework. But I don’t know, since I only have 1 app sideloaded right now.
Transmission is my favorite design-wise on macOS but I wish it had i2p support.
On a headless seedbox Deluge/ruTorrent/Transmission are still reliable, most of the paid seedbox services still default with those.
qBittorrent is hugely popular on the desktop front and has been getting more popular as a headless client now that the web ui has improved, also look into qbittorrent-nox if you don’t have a gui to do initial setup with.
Deluge is always my goto.
qBittorrent. With a quick UI switch to vuetorrent for the tablet. LXC bound to a bridge thats VPN connected.
Tixati
Not sure why it’s not more popular. I use and donate. I’ve had better performance with this than qbittorrent.
Closed source, and their prominent “contains NO Spyware” disclaimer doesn’t quite instill confidence. I have also never even heard about it until now.
I don’t use that client either - But to be fair the dev (Kevin Hearn) has a long history with P2P software e.g. depending how old you are you may have used his WinMX software back in the day. He isn’t known for sticking spyware/malware into his software so I sort of trust the software he puts out in that sense. He also maintains other non-torrent P2P file sharing software outside of Tixati.
Of course it would be better if it was open source but he’s never been an open source coder AFAIK.
I used transmission for years, but the larger my library got the more issues I had. Currently using Qbit and loving the categories for easier management, especially with the *arr suite.
transmission
I hear people use the search function of QBitTorrent tied to VPN tunnel. Basic, but it works
rTorrent with Flood front end.
My only complaint so far is being unable to reach the rTorrent TUI when it’s running headless. It otherwise works great.
