Home seedbox

[EmmaMay]

Hi, I have a spare PC in my cupboard, nothing special on the specs, I'm wondering if it can be turned into a headless torrent seedbox so I can give back to the linux community by sharing distribution isos, I understand a bit about the command line so I'm not afraid to use it, ideally I'd like the setup to be headless with a web user interface for remote management and a single user account for myself, thank you very much in advance to anyone who replies.

[AshleyAshes]

There's a few torrent clients that allow remote access.  I use the Windows port of Transmission, Transmission-QT (Yeah, my server is running Win10 Pro).  With Transmission you can then install the client on any machine and operate it as if it was local.  I'm on my workstation, Transmission-QT client open in a window, but the actual daemon is running in another room.  I can even use the Android client to interact with it.  So this is pretty doable, you just need to pick a torrent client with remote access that suits your needs the best.

[Jarsky]

I just run Ubuntu 15.10 with rTorrent/ruTorrent + autodl-irssi for an auto downloader.

 

jarsky@seedbox:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 15.10
Release:        15.10
Codename:       wily

 

This guide looks pretty comprehensive: https://jes.sc/kb/rTorrent+ruTorrent-Seedbox-Guide.php