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| title | date | tags | draft | |
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| Transmission On Docker | 2020-11-26T15:20:30+01:00 |
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Transmission is a widely used torrenting client for Linux. But did you know you could also run it as a server? This means you could download your torrents on for example a remote VPS. As torrents heavily rely on both upload and download speeds, you can expect a tremendous increase in speed thanks to the high upload speeds of servers.
In this tutorial, I'll be teaching you how to install Transmission Server on your VPS or server of choice using Docker, so you can download torrents at blazing fast speeds.
Needed Software
First of all, we'll need Docker and docker-compose. On Ubuntu, you can install these as follows:
sudo apt install docker.io docker-compose
For other distros, just use their respective package manager. The Docker
package will probably be called docker.io or docker.
The Image
We'll be using linuxserver.io's Transmission Image. It comes pre-configured, and can mostly be initialized by just setting some environment variables. However, I won't be using those, as I find just changing the configuration file myself is much more straightforward and reliable. I will teach you how to change this file to your liking, so that you too can have full control over your Transmission server.