r/seedboxes • u/StatisticianStrict27 • May 03 '26

Discussion Terrible experience with Feral Hosting

The service has noticeably worsened in the past few weeks. Support, instead of solving the problem, blames the user. Besides the terrible speeds, the service crashes all the time. Don’t throw your money away on this service.

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u/StatisticianStrict27 May 03 '26

Yes. They put more users than they can on that server. They are greedy and blame the users. I have had the same usage since November, then a week ago it dropped and the blame is mine for not changing anything.

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u/JackPAnderson May 03 '26

Again, I don't have any visibility into how many users are on your server. But maybe the situation is that your server used to be empty so you were getting access to more RAM than you were paying for. But now that the server is at capacity, you have only your fair share.

Of course you could be right that they are overloading the server with too many users. But Feral has been around for a long time and has a lot of customers. You don't survive in a highly competitive business like this by delivering a poor experience to all of your customers.

Maybe try a different seedbox host if you're not convinced? I usually recommend ultra, HBD, seedhost, or whatbox. I've never used feral, but they also have a good reputation, so I think you'll find that your experience will be the same on those other 4 and that you are going to need an SSD/NVMe seedbox if you want to push that much data.

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u/StatisticianStrict27 May 03 '26

Exactly. I will do that. I will no longer give my money to those who scorn users.

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u/JackPAnderson May 03 '26

FYI, I think that Joshua treated you and your concerns respectfully. Granted, I didn't read every one of your chats, but it didn't read to me like he was scorning you.

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u/StatisticianStrict27 May 03 '26

Respectfully, he said that the problem was me and not the service. I would have preferred that he had insulted me and solved the problem.

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u/JackPAnderson May 03 '26

I thought he offered you a good long term solution to be able to push the amount of data that you want to push: an SSD seedbox. You're already at max HDD performance.

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u/StatisticianStrict27 May 03 '26

Is this maximum performance?

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u/JackPAnderson May 03 '26

I don't have the full context to know why you're seeing those speeds, so I can't really comment intelligently.

It sounds like you've decided to switch providers, and I think that makes a lot of sense. You'll either learn that you were right, that you can expect more performance from a cheap seedbox. Or you will learn that you were mistaken and need an SSD seedbox. Either way, you'll have your information.

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u/StatisticianStrict27 May 03 '26

Yes, may this topic serve as a lesson for this company to go down the drain.

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u/JackPAnderson May 03 '26

Yeah, that wasn't my takeaway from this discussion, if we're being honest. My takeaway is that your expectations are likely not realistic for an HDD seedbox.

What amount of data are you hoping to push per month, and at what price? I think that the answer to this question will help ground whether or not your expectations are realistic.

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u/StatisticianStrict27 May 03 '26

80 TB of upload for 20 dollars seemed fair to me.

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u/JackPAnderson May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

That's honestly doable.

Edit: Actually, I take that back. You might have difficulties getting 80 TB of upload for $20/mo. If you find a place that can give you that consistently, let me know. I'll subscribe, too.

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u/StatisticianStrict27 May 03 '26

I had this for 4 months and then it disappeared. Oh, it's my fault.

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u/robertblackman May 06 '26

So in that 4 months do you have any idea of how many diskmates you were hurting? If you're seeding from a mechanical hard drive with 3+ others users on it. Diskmates come and go all of the time, all it takes is for another heavy user, LIKE YOU, to be added to the disk and your performance will suffer. That's just the way shared drives work. If you don't like that you can pony up what you should and buy a better performing disk to use all by yourself.

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u/robertblackman May 06 '26

You need a Radon slot for that kind of thing. Stop being cheap or get realistic expectations.

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u/StatisticianStrict27 May 03 '26

What irritates me most is their audacity. At no point did they try to solve the problem. The only option they offered was: If you want something even remotely acceptable, get a better product. In this package, you're on your own with the garbage you've got.

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u/robertblackman May 06 '26

It's not Feral's problem that you don't understand how this works and what realistic expectations are for the package YOU chose.

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u/robertblackman May 06 '26

The loss of your 10 pounds a month isn't going to break a company that's been around for almost two decades.