The original post: /r/seedboxes by /u/sevinup07 on 2025-02-22 04:18:17.

Hi there,

This past week I’ve been setting up a seedbox and moving all my downloading to that platform. I thought I was good to go and it worked great for a couple days, but now I’m hitting another issue.

I’m working with a seedbox on Ultra.cc. I have my download client, rTorrent, set up on the seedbox. I have decided to keep my *arr apps hosted locally on my Windows PC, alongside my Plex server. I had been using these local instances fine for months using a local qBittorrent.

I couldn’t get connected at all using qBittorrent on the seedbox, so I tried rTorrent and got it to work. I was connected to my local *arr instances, and it was successfully sending requests, downloading, and importing. I downloaded around 300 torrents over the past 2 days (I had quite a backlog). They are seeding and everything is fine with those. I have it synced with Syncthing to bring my files from the seedbox server to my local HDD, and its been slowly moving through that log.

So I let Syncthing do its thing, and watched as things got populated into Plex. Then I noticed that I wasn’t seeing new stuff populating, despite Syncthing still pulling down new files. I looked in my downloads folder and realized the files were no longer being hardlinked. I did a few manual hardlinks and got it to populate into Plex but then I went looking at Radarr/Sonarr and realized basically my whole queue was empty, and it was no longer trying to import anything.

Then I noticed that I had errors that my download client wasn’t available at all. I’m now getting a connection timeout error between *arr and rTorrent. No amount of fiddling or restarting things seems to work, and I’m completely stuck. The only similar issues I’ve been able to find threads for seem not to apply to hosting on Windows.

Here is a pastebin of my recent Radarr log. I’m getting the exact same error on Sonarr so I assume this applies to both and the Radarr log is easier to sift through, but I can provide logs for Sonarr as well if that might help. I am also of course more than happy to share any relevant settings I have.

tl;dr: Connection between locally hosted *arr apps and rTorrent hosted on a remote seedbox worked temporarily, but now has timeout errors and can’t connect.