Linux – need a bittorrent daemon

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I'm building a Ubuntu server for the house. I want to centralize torrents. what I'm looking for is something that runs as a service (daemon) that has 3 folders to configure.

  1. Actively downloading torrents – this will be a folder where I can just drop a torrent file and the service picks it up and starts downloading
  2. Seeding torrents – when a torrent is finished downloading, the actual torrent file is moved to this folder. when the torrent file is deleted from this folder, the daemon stops seeding
  3. download folder – the folder where it drops files as they are downloading.

Additional features would be nice, like a web or console based screen where I can see the status of the downloads and such, but the fact that it can run as a deamon without someone logged in is a deal breaker.

Let me know if you know of anything.

Best Answer

For pure daemon usage on a headless server, rtorrent would be the client I would go to. It's command-line and very feature complete, although it's not the easiest thing to set up being purely command line. There are numerous web interfaces to rtorrent as well, although, again, they don't seem to be very easy to set up.

For GUI clients, I prefer qBittorrent because it works very well and has a good interface. It has a web interface, too, although I currently do not use it.

Deluge is alright, but when I was using it 2-3 years ago I found it would stall constantly and the performance was significantly less than other clients. I cannot say if this is true today, however.

Transmission works pretty well, but always seemed very bare-bones to me.

My personal experiences with the devs and admins on the uTorrent forums (I found them insulting, foul-mouthed, condescending, arrogant, and self-entitled) have led me to wholly shun the program. I no longer recommend it on any platform regardless of how mature uTorrent is. Indeed, I tend to recommend anything else.

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