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Are these guaranteed to be permanently online? Do they come with root access if we end up renting one?
by princevegeta89 2y ago
Are these guaranteed to be permanently online?
Do they come with root access if we end up renting one?
- lyu07282 2y agoDepends on the seedbox most will give you root/ssh, others just give you a APi/web interface to a managed torrent client which can be convenient. Check r/seedboxes
- princevegeta89 2y agothanks! this sounds interesting
- everforward 2y agoThey’re guaranteed to be permanently online as much as such a thing can be for $20/month or whatever. They don’t shut it down if you’re not using it, if that’s what you’re asking but they do occasionally come down for upgrades/migrations/incidents/etc. I’d ballpark most providers in the 99% uptime range. Some provide root, some don’t. Last I checked, you’ll pay more for root because most of the servers are physical so you have to rent a whole server basically. The servers are typically IO bound on the NIC so they aren’t super picky about what you do with CPU and memory. They won’t let you run a crypto miner or do heavily parallel transcoding, but if you want to chuck a Python+SQLite web app on there I doubt they’d care.
- KomoD 2y ago> Are these guaranteed to be permanently online? Well no, can't really guarantee that. > Do they come with root access if we end up renting one? Some do, some don't. If you want root you'll need to rent a dedicated one and avoid shared plans.