I’m looking for a torrent software to run on my server/VM. I want something that is easy to setup, has a decent web UI, a base set of features like autoadd and… well, you know, actually works.
Been running Deluge for a while but turns out autoadd is broken. Spent too much time trying to fix it.
QBittorrent breaks when I try to add alternative web UI (VueTorrent). I mean, it’s still broken after restoring the config file. Also, it can’t seem to display error messages in the UI so you have to dig through logs.
Transmission has been unreliable and has performance issues in my experience.
Please, can you recommend something that is actually good?
I’ve already mentioned it other comments. It’s running in an Arch VM. Purging it and reinstalling does not restore config files. According to one person here the configs are not only stored in ~/.config as the documentation says. On top of that, error messages for torrents are not shown in the UI, but in the log file - with a level of logging that is most undesirable.
Why use a whole ass vm just for a torrent client? You can use pre-built docker containers that works out of the box and with a lot less moving parts (aka things that can break).
FWIW, I run an rtorrent container in a home kube cluster. It mounts my data store as an nfs volume and runs flood in a sidecar container. I just use watch directories on the data store and have a cronjob running flexget to subscribe to torrent rss feeds. Notifications are done with the Pushbullet api.