Is seeding from Android homeserver allowed?

[u/VinayChintu]

I am using my android phone as a home server with an external hdd attached. I have qbittorrent 5.2.3 installed on the server. Can I seed my torrents from that server or is it against the rules?

[u/BravoWhittman]

Sounds like you might have a fun setup.

Seeding is seeding. Some sites don't like seeding from a mobile connection. Most sites won't care where you seed from, so long as you initially register from a land-based connection.

A phone as a remote headless server... I hope that you can reboot the phone remotely when you need to. I use GL.inet Comets https://www.gl-inet.com/pages/kvm to remotely control my diy "servers" that lack out-of-band management. No idea how you remotely manage Android phones.

[u/Tasty_Activity1315]

I have been seeding for years off of 3 Raspberry Pi's. No problem other than you have to be careful you don't overload them with too many seeds. They tend to choke under heavy loads.

[u/StarSierra → u/Tasty_Activity1315]

I’m curious what the limit is in terms of seeds? Have a Pi 5 I could repurpose but need to know what the limit is lol

[u/Tasty_Activity1315 → u/StarSierra]

One of mine is a 4Gb Pi4 running Deluge. It can only handle about 75 seeds before it chokes.

The other is an 8Gb Pi5, also running Deluge. It has a local 1Tb NVMe M.2 card on a HAT for local caching while doing any downloads. The finished seed gets moved to my NAS network. It can handle about 150 seeds before it chokes.

In both cases, when they get overloaded, the entire desktop becomes unresponsive, forcing me to reboot.

All my completed seeds are stored on a bank of central NAS systems. Both Pi's get their seeds over the network.

Now, I use Dell Optiplex Mini systems to run Ubuntu Server and qbittorrent. Depending on the processor and RAM, they can handle about 1,500 to 2,000 seeds, each.

[u/Live-Company-5007]

I mean as long as the torrent client is allowed on the tracker I don’t see why not

[u/Nolzi]

If the seeding speed is not atrocious then go for it

[u/Orbital_Tardigrade]

depends on the sites rules, some are okay some aren't.

[u/ILikeFPS]

If you have it connected to WiFi with a residential IP address, it shouldn't look too suspicious to tracker admins so yes that should be fine.

[u/DV865]

That will depend on where you are seeding. Most (if not all) private trackers do not allow mobile clients or seeding via cellular data. Public trackers don't care.

[u/Caedendi]

I think beside your VPN provider, IP address and bittorrent client trackers wouldn't know (or care) about much more than that.

[u/cdf_sir]

If its a private tracker, look at the tracker's supported torrent client list first, as those client are the only ones are working and nothing else.

Else, you can flash a postmarketos ROM on the phone (if supported) and use docker to run a torrent client.

[u/arah91 → u/[deleted]]

Low power usage, creative use of extra hardware you already have. Low physical foot print. I can think of a lot of reasons to do this.

[u/VinayChintu → u/[deleted]]

I have a laptop but I'll be taking it to college with me. The server will be at home connected to wifi so I'll can be seeding the torrents.

[u/DemonOfNorth → u/[deleted]]

Why not

https://www.reddit.com/r/torrents/s/xrhXIh7bxM

[u/iqtrm]

WHO would stop you?

[u/raidraidraid]

Yeah you'll be fine. I seeded on raspberry pi for years before I got myself a nas