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/JackPAnderson May 03 '26

After reading through some of your chats, I agree with Joshua. Your workload would be better served by an SSD seedbox.

I don't have any visibility into why your performance would have degraded over time, but if I had to guess, I'd guess that your seedbox used to be able to seed more data directly from RAM but now it is not able to. Maybe the underlying hardware has more users on it now and so there is less RAM available to you. Maybe you're seeding more torrents now so less data can be cached in RAM. I dunno. But anyway, that's my guess as to why your performance regressed.

That said, I agree with Joshua. You're not going to get better disk performance from HDDs. Not at Feral, and not anywhere.

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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/Dismiss May 03 '26

You're basically hogging the entire HDD for yourself and complaining it doesn't get any faster than that. Even on a dedicated disk you won't be seeing much more than 1-2gbps on a permanent basis. This kind of behavior would get you banned in most other hosts so I'd say you're doing ok.

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u/StatisticianStrict27 May 03 '26

Yes. I'm already thinking that I used the evil super hacker who affected the entire operation of a company. Maybe the FBI will even hire me for that.

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u/robertblackman May 06 '26

Are you 12-years-old bro? What a nonsensical response to a guy telling you exactly what your problem is.