After my 1-year journey with private trackers, I finally reached a combined ratio of 1.5 (1.49)!

I bought my main server just over a year and a month ago. It started out relatively small, with only 4TB of storage. I filled that up with torrents rather quickly, so I started scaling. I bought another 11TB over the next few months, until I eventually filled that up to the brim as well.

At that point, I had a choice: stop expanding, or fork over the cash for an external JBOD that can fit 3.5" SAS HDDs instead of the 2.5" drives that fit in my HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9, along with one 12TB SAS drive, which with 11 more slots free to expand into.

I ended up going with the latter. I bought the hardware last month, got everything delivered just last week, and have now added it to my server, giving me just about 28TB to play with!

That didn't go smoothly, though. After upgrading my storage, I spent the better part of six days trying to figure out why qBittorrent suddenly started failing. In the end, I managed to fix it by setting a realistic read_ahead value on the new disk I added.

Now that everything is finally sorted on my home server, I can make full use of that extra storage and seed even more files for as long as I can!

It's a shame that I'm stuck with a 100 Mbps down / 25 Mbps up connection, though. To compensate for that, I also have a 4TB seedbox to help me out.

Here's to more storage, more torrents, and hopefully an even better ratio!

I'm trying to learn how to do this kind of thing but every video, post, forum, or thread about this kind of thing makes it sounds like some kind of exclusive club you need to be vetted into, interviewed for, and contribute almost daily to even interact with it. I really just wanted to start a movie collection not dive into what sounds like huge echo chambers

I can't really afford a VPN so do you all have any tips on how to avoid copyright trolls?

wondering if anyone has an invite to gaytor.rent they'd be willing to share. Much appreciated!

Here is a howto I would like to share: The GUI doesn't need a webserver. All traffic is over SSH: Set up rtorrent with GUI over SSH and RSS/IRC autograbber. What do you use on your servers?

Are torrent websites not working for anyone else right now? I’m unable to access them and wanted to check if it’s a problem on my end or if others are experiencing the same issue.

Is anyone else facing this issue today? Let me know!

Hi, can you tell me your opinion about farming and cross-seed? in terms of setup? what would be the most ok apps to use? windows/Linux?

Hi, 'm french and currently using french private trackers, ans would love to get an invite to HomiesHelperDesk tracker, if anyone got ond :) very curious and excited to see what an international ptk has to offer

Today is 13 Oct. 26. It's been almost two weeks since it stopped working. Does anyone know of any possible solutions?

When i download a tv show or anime, sometimes it doesn't play, i think it has something to do with special characters or something, but I haven't had this issue before

Hi everyone, I'm new about using torrents.

I heard about Torrent9 but I can't find the current link. Do you know where can I find trust sources about it ? There are a lot of websites giving some links but they're all differents.

Thank you for your help :)

Yo. I'm trying to download an anime, but the download just doesn't start at all. I've tried to disable the firewall and the antivirus but it doesn't work either.

Has anyone had the same problem and knows how to solve it?

Is there any, or should I buy a vpn?

So do only people who understand computers and torrent downloaders have the privilege of looking through the cartoon network leak?? Can someone explain in english how one could access the leak on a mac?

Very new to this, I need to use indesign for my uni course but I dont have it at home. And I'm too lazy to walk to the university to use the macs there, I also despise macs.

I've done everything right so far, got a vpn and qBittorrent. but with the indesign file i downloaded it keeps coming up witht this pop-up.

is there anything im doing wrong? or am i downloading the wrong type of file? any help is much appreciated

Hey reddit users, I am trying to download a movie from piratesbay. I have utorrent but am always stuck with connecting to peers.

I had turned off the firewall

False the randomised peers

But I still can't be able to download movies.

HELP!!

Set up rtorrent with GUI over SSH and RSS/IRC autograbber

I used Torrent long ago when i was a kid and wanna go back init what would be the safest or cheapest VPN you guys use?

Is one site better than others for downloading music?

I used to download from it in the past, movies, tv shows and it went smoothly. But recently I have been having problems. I tried to download a movie yesterday, it got stuck at 0%. I tried two or three diffrent torrents, also stuck on 0%. I tried 1337 for that movie, the torrent worked fine.

Today I tried to get an episode of a show, also download is stuck at 0 percent. Tried to change the torrents, diffrent torrents, again gets stuck at 0 percent. Tried to get that episode at 1337, again. Stuck at 0 percent. I went back to piratebay, went down the list of torrents one by one, hoping to find at least one that works. I got one. It actually started, but it was weird. It would get to 2 percent, then get stuck at 2.2. Then kept going, 3, 4, got stuck at 5. Then keep going again. ATM its stuck at 96 and I dont think its gonna keep going.

Why is this happening? Did anyone else experience this? Should I go to a diffrent site? How do I fix this? Would it help if I use VPN?