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-Madlogik

Fun in Linux Wonderland

posted Jun 17, 2011 7:52 AM by Mad Logik
A few days ago, I saw a contest to win a free seedbox server for a month... one word got my attention ..."with root access"... 
http://www.seedboxhosting.com/free-seedbox-giveaway/
So... I came up with a good tweet: 

MadLogik
MadLogik

I should get a #FreeSeedboxbecause I want to help penguins in cyberspace. A lot of penguins die hitting Windows™!http://bit.ly/freeseedbox
 via web

To Sum it all up, I won! 
But then I never imagined the journey I would get myself into... 
See I used it as a seedbox... and that was fine.. but then I enabled root access and to be honnest I had a plan in mind: make the best out of this free gift! 

On my way: I installed the complete ubuntu-desktop, an ssh and vnc .. filezilla... and I was scripting away in bash... 

Then I needed to reboot that server.. and ... vlam .. lost everything. 
I learned the hard way that this "seedbox server" was setup to re-initialize itself uppon reboot! 

I got in touch with their tech support and explained my situation... I knew I was going in unsupported territories, but OH MY GOD! 
I received the best service, friendly help and always a supporting hand! 

so now I can reboot it, partitions mount back up automatically (learned about the fstab a lot!)  and vnc starts too! 
it's still a rutorrent seedbox that I access through the front end. 
I installed chrome both on the server and at home, and I use the "remote torrent adder" extension to push torrents directly on the seedbox. 
I then created myself a little bash scripts that splits files into rar's because upload is A LOT faster 10 files at a time than 1 by one... the way their disk arrays and / or server are setup I don't know... but at 10 transfers at the same time I can max out my 30 mbps cable connection here!
LOVE IT! 

+ seeding is a pleasure when it's not your bandwidth! 

I would recommend ANYONE wishing to get a NICE RELIABLE AND FAST seedbox to do business with them! 
Especially if you thinker with the server like I did, you are going to LOVE it. 

now the only problem I have is that I will have to PAY for next month because I'm not letting go of this toy so quickly! I'm hooked! 

Otherwise... Terraria rules and Duke Nukem Forever sucks... 
Minecraft 1.7 is about to come out ... PISTONS!!!! and already it's seems amazing (look @ 2:35 for the automatic door system!) 

Back @ server now! I'm pondering about setting it up as a vpn server too! hehehehe
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