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I was not born 30 years ago, but I'd like to embrace more the "caring is sharing" mantra. I wonder what's your 'workflow'/management of your uploads to seed? as in it takes storage and so on, so what are your best practices folx?
Born 35 years ago, was a teen during the rise of torrents.
I have a hard disk dedicated to transient torrents. Separate hard disk for archival and perma seed.
Everything goes into transient with minimum ratio of 5.0 by default (I forgot the minimum time, but it's probably two weeks or a month). Sometimes I upgrade good things and upgrade them to archival and set them to seed forever.
I do remember capping my upload to 50% or so of my maximum upload, as well as limiting the number of downloading torrents (5) as well as active connections per torrent (around 100). You'll have to play around with this one to suit your own connection.
After that I just use without much thought, and only remove torrents that have automatically stopped without much worry.
A seedbox transformed torrenting for me, but now I only use Usenet for movies/tv and Mobilism & Anna’s Archive for mags and books.
2.00 for anything I download and isn't broken or garbage
5.00 for anything small, popular, or that I'm passionate about
Probably going to bump that up higher for some things, it's been slow lately
I only recently got the ability to seed long-term and privately. I don't bother with private trackers and don't expect I ever will. That's partially because I don't care about new shows or movies, and partially because I don't like exclusionary communities. My setup is virtualized, not on dedicated hardware, so I don't have a lot of space to throw at this. I'm a small fish in a big pond and I focus on keeping alive things that I've enjoyed.
Depending on the content, 10 or 20 comes quick
Yeah, it sure can, but most of the stuff I'm dealing with is older or niche. I have one that's about to hit two months still sitting at 0.96. True to my word, though, I've bumped up ratios across most of what I have.
I often look for older or niche content, and even for that I still often have plenty of takers on public trackers. That my machine is port forwarded might have something to do with it. I'd say I have a "medium" amount of disk space and only stop seeding when I delete the files, but sometimes I limit the upload rate to keep some for other activities.
I'm not downloading things for the sake of having them to share. It's a narrow intersection between things that I want, and things that I have the space to keep. Because of this, you and I might have different definitions of niche. And my connection wouldn't be stellar even if it weren't being sent across an ocean through a VPN. But I try to give more than I get.