Whatbox

Wiki

A collection of articles and tutorials for and by Whatbox users. Any user with an active slot is free to create and edit articles as they wish.

New to Whatbox

• Payment Information
• Server Locations
• Switching from other providers - We'll do it for you!

Getting Help

• FAQ - Read a collection of frequently asked questions
• Common Problems - Solutions to some common issues
• 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

• Transferring data between servers when upgrading plans
• Locked Slots
• Manage
• User Settings
• Slot Info
• Slot Settings

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 for Linux, Unix and Windows
  • Deluge Console - documentation
  • Transmission - a solid client with native Mac, Qt, Web and terminal interfaces
  • Transmission Console - documentation
  • 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

Files

• Helm - Whatbox's web-based file manager
• 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
• Streaming audio and video with VLC, MPC HC or MPlayer

SSH - Secure Shell

• SSH
• PuTTY
• Bash Shell Commands
• screen
• SSH Tunneling
• SSHFS

Installed Programs and Scripts

• List of Software - Version numbers of popular software that is installed on all Whatbox servers
• irssi - A text-based IRC client
• Archives - Handling zip, rar, tar, 7z files
• xseed - Script for batch modifying torrents
• rsync - A powerful file sychronization tool
• Transcoding FLAC to MP3

Other Programs and Scripts

• Autodl-irssi - A torrent auto downloader using irssi
• Dropbox
• plowshare - An uploader/downloader for 'Hoster' sites
• FlexGet - A multipurpose automation tool for downloading
• ZNC - An IRC bouncer

Contributing

Users with active slots are able to 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 would like write access to the wiki, please open a support ticket.

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