Wiki

A collection of articles and tutorials for and by Whatbox users. Any user with an active slot can create and edit articles.

New to Whatbox

• Beginners Guide - Learn about the basics
• Server Locations - Check out our different server locations
• Switching from other providers - We'll do it for you!

Getting Help

• FAQ - Read a collection of frequently asked questions
• Support - Make a ticket to our support staff
• IRC - Talk to other users and staff in our chatroom
• Skynet - How to use our IRC bot

Getting Started

• Manage - The central hub to all your slot details
  • Slot Info - General information about your slot and server
  • Slot Settings - Manage apps and your slot's plan
• User Settings - Email, Password, and Location settings
• Locked Slots - Check here to learn about a locked slot
• Transfer data between servers when changing plans

BitTorrent

• BitTorrent Clients - An overview of the available clients
• rTorrent - The default client on our slots, text-based, but is extended with GUI's
  • ruTorrent - A web front-end for our default client rTorrent.
• Deluge - A full-featured client with frontends for Linux, Mac and Windows
  • Deluge Console - Documentation on the command line utility for Deluge
• Transmission - A solid client with native Mac, Qt, Web and terminal interfaces
  • Transmission Console - Documentation on the command line utility for Transmission
• Transdroid - An open-source application for managing torrents from Android devices
• Creating Torrents with ruTorrent and mktorrent
• Browser Plug-ins for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox

Accessing Your Files

• File downloading and uploading - HTTP, FTP/SFTP, rsync
  • FTP Clients - An overview of FTP clients for downloading from your seedbox
  • Multi-threaded and Segmented FTP - Speed up downloads by splitting one file into many
• Helm - Whatbox's web-based file manager
• Streaming audio and video with VLC, MPC-HC, MPlayer, and more
• Mounting as a volume - Manage your files like any other drive on your computer
  • sshfs - Securely mount remote file systems on the command line

SSH - Secure Shell

• SSH - Connect to your slot via SSH
  • Bash Shell Commands - Basic bash commands, for the default shell in SSH
  • screen - A powerful terminal multiplexer that lets you run commands even when not connected
• SSH Tunneling - Tunnel your Internet connection through SSH

Installed Software

• Installing Software - The general rules and steps for adding software to your slot
• List of Installed Software - With an active slot on your Manage page, this page shows the version numbers of popular software already installed on your server.
• OpenVPN - Connect to our VPN for secure browsing through your slot
• Python - A general-purpose programming language that emphasizes readability.
• cron - A time-based job scheduler
• irssi - A text-based IRC client
• ZNC - An IRC bouncer
• The Lounge - A web-based IRC client
• Archives - Handling zip, rar, tar, and 7z archives
• xseed - A script for modifying torrents for cross-seeding
• rsync - A powerful file synchronization tool
• rclone - rsync for cloud storage
• lftp - A free and open source command line FTP client
• flac2mp3 - Transcode FLAC media files to MP3

Sharing Your Slot with Others

• Dropbox - Use Dropbox with your slot
• OneDrive - A Microsoft OneDrive desktop client / daemon
• Resilio Sync - Resilio's secure, distributed sync app based on BitTorrent, Inc technology
• Nextcloud - A cloud server similar to Dropbox or Google Drive
• Syncthing - An open-source peer-to-peer file synchronization application
• nginx - Set up your own nginx web server to host websites
• ProFTPD - Set up your own FTP server with custom usernames and passwords

Media Servers

• Plex - all of your video, music, and photo collections,
  • Tautulli - A web application for monitoring, analytics and notifications for Plex Media Server.
  • Plex WebTools - A plugin for Plex Media Server that allows installation of extra modules including subtitle management
  • Threadfin - An M3U serving server for Plex DVR and Emby/Jellyfin Live TV.
• Jellyfin - An actively maintained open source personal media server (forked from the last open-source version of Emby and actively developed since).
• Emby - A shareware personal media server with apps on just about every device

Downloader and Usenet Utilities

• RSS - Use RSS feeds to automatically download torrents
• Autodl-irssi - A torrent auto downloader using irssi
• Autobrr - the modern download automation tool for torrents
• plowshare - An uploader/downloader for Hoster or Direct Download sites
• pyLoad - A download manager for 'Hoster' websites, video sites, and HTTP/FTP links
• MEGAcmd - A collection of programs for accessing the specific Direct Download site Mega
• FlexGet - A multipurpose automation tool for RSS torrent downloading
• SABnzbd - A Usenet newsreader and downloader
• SickBeard - Open source video manager for newsgroups with limited torrent support
• SickChill - Fork of SickRage, focused on BitTorrent support
• Medusa - Another fork of SickRage
• Headphones - An automated music downloader for SABnzbd and BitTorrent
• Sonarr - Open source PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users
• Radarr - A fork of Sonarr to work with movies
• Lidarr - A fork of Sonarr to work with music. Early in development and bugs expected.
• Bazarr - Optional companion program to Sonarr and Radarr for subtitle management. Early in development and bugs expected.
• Prowlarr - An indexer manager for Sonarr/Radarr
• Jackett - An indexer manager for programs like Sonarr/Radarr communicating with BitTorrent trackers

Media Organization

• beets - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
• Ombi - A web application that gives your shared Plex users the ability to request
• Overseerr - Another web application for managing requests for your media library

Other Programs and Scripts

• Murmur - The Mumble server
• Midnight Commander (mc) - A feature rich text mode filemanager and a clone of Norton Commander
• NCurses Disk Usage (ncdu) - A curses-based version of the well-known 'du', and provides a fast way to see what directories are using your disk space.
• Node.js - Built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications.
• Flood - Alternative rTorrent web interface using Node.js.
• gsutil - gsutil is a tool written in Python that lets you access the Google Storage cloud from the command line.
• Using XMLRPC with Python - Interacting with the XMLRPC interface on your rTorrent server through Python scripts.
• Redis - Redis is an open source, networked, in memory key-value cache and store
• Go - Go or Golang is an open source programming language created at Google
• md5deep and hashdeep - md5deep is a set of programs to recursively compute and compare MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, Whirlpool message digests
• yt-dlp - A command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Contributing

Users with active slots can contribute to the wiki by clicking the New or Edit links in the top right of any article. If you do not have an active slot but want to contribute to the wiki, please open a support ticket.

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