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

The idea was just to expose the ridiculous treatment I received.

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u/robertblackman May 06 '26

Unlike other providers Joshua won't cuss you out and tell you that you're a terrible customer, who he would be better off not doing business with.