Now I want to see a prestige style movie with this premise.

Sorry, that’s what I meant as well :) Came out upside down when I wrote. We used to figure out shitty ISP router passwords this way by having a table of common passwords and their hashes.

You could take the old password, change one or two letters and compare the hash to the hash of the new password?

That’s amazing :) I am definitely going to try them if I am sticking around.

The prompt for me to switch was the fact that Netflix, Hulu and prime increasing their prices which made many members of my family stop using them. If they can adapt to Plex/jellyfin, then I’ll probably keep it around and maybe even upgrade.

I have my own local set up with qbitorrent, transmission, deluge, cross seed, all the arrs and the whole lot :) I use it to watch things at home.

This seedbox is for sharing with my family who lives in different parts of the world. With my internet, it isn’t feasible to share stuff from my home.

That’s really cool :) Thank you. I will probably stick with wireguard.

The list is pretty similar to hbd. Hbd doesn’t have transmission and syncthing, and prowlarr is semi-official but instead they have Medusa, autobrr, filebrowser and resiliosync.

Will check out the wiki :) If you have ssh enabled in your box, I would suggest looking up SSH keys. I have some public stuff I run for my work and I get at least a hundred brute force attacks on port 22 when I use a password.

How is there customer support infrastructure? With hbd I can raise tickets or talk on discord where they answer pretty fast.

This is awesome :) I’m going to try this tomorrow.

Looks like their offering is pretty similar. I think the hbd people are collaborating with swizzin devs because they share same scripts etc.

I was sad when I couldn’t get ranger to work. I’m fine with just having vi and screen instead of vim and tmux, but I truly miss ranger.

Not really, you can use rootless docker or podman but the seedbox owners need to add you to the correct groups and they’re not willing to do that.

Yeah. I got pipx and npx working so, simple things should be fine. I really wish distrobox would work but it hasn’t so far.

Sure, but you need the dependencies and libraries, and a way to manage them. There are few things that are just a standalone file.

Let me check out the ToS of AD. Thanks for the heads up. On RD if I log into my partner’s account who lives in a different place, she gets logged out and vice versa.

Hey, I’m currently on hbd too, curious to know how to find the openvpn config. So far I’ve only found wireguard.

Thank you :) This is quite helpful. With SSH but without root, are you able to install many things?

I’ve found Plex to be okay on the shared one because it’s hardly being used most of the time, at least on hbd.

I’m really tempted to try out seedhost for a month :)

Hey, you’ve been really helpful, so thank you :) The reason I didn’t go with Singapore is because my partner currently lives in the US and this is mostly for her, I have my own homelab setup that I haven’t exposed to the internet.

I’ll checkout if I can write my own nginx files on hostinby as well based on what you said :D

Ultra looks to have the most apps supported out of the box, so I might switch to them if I can’t iron out stuff on hbd. I saw that hbd has a script for homebrew of all things. Are you familiar with using brew to install stuff on Linux?

Thank you :) I’ve heard generally good things about them. The reason I didn’t pick them initially was because the 15$ plan is 2/5TB which is a bit less than the options I mentioned.

How is the app selection? Are you able to use SSH keys?

It looks good but seems to offer much less control, basically just torrent+file share. Can’t even host Plex/jellyfin which is a deal breaker for me.

You don’t need a VPN or proxy with Debrid services. They download and cache the torrents for you in their own servers, so you aren’t at risk of DMCA or the equivalent.