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Gives you ample time to test things out etc. and yes, you can signup again for it.

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• rTorrent, qBittorrent, Deluge
• Public HTML Directory as well
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• Free VPN: Wireguard & OpenVPN
• INSTANT SETUP

So just head over to https://pulsedmedia.com/free-seedbox.php and sign up for one.

Extra Info

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• Public Trackers ARE ALLOWED

  Payment methods

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# Why Choose Pulsed Media?

• Experience: More than 15 years in the industry, providing smooth and reliable services.
• Happy Customers: Many have stayed with us for 5+ years, some even from the first month of original launch in 2010!

Testimonials: Check out what our satisfied customers had to say

See Trustpilot 62 review 4.3/5.0

Some mentions from our customers:
* "You run a magnificent service with a truly impressive uptime.  I really appreciate the effort you put in to keeping alt this running and responding to tickets quickly." -R.L. / GB
* "Just wanted to say the new box seems pretty nice. Definitely a very noticeable improvement when I went to check it out for the first time today. Thanks!" -D.H. / USA
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This thread too got deleted on the other Green Forum, i guess it's now official Pulsed Media is Shadow Banned from the Other Green. This time in manner of minutes. :O

So, we decided to build our own.

Together with a few friends, we developed NetMirror, a brand-new Looking Glass project aimed at providing a more modern, user-friendly solution for data centers, oneman operations, and networking enthusiasts.

Special thanks to wikihost-opensource and Hybula for the inspiration and architecture ideas their projects provided.

🚀 What is NetMirror?

NetMirror is a feature-rich, visually appealing, and modern Looking Glass server-side panel designed for displaying and testing multi-region network nodes. It supports essential networking tools such as ping, traceroute, mtr, speedtest, and more. All nodes are displayed in a unified interface to help users evaluate latency, stability, and performance across different routes.

🔗 Live Demo

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/catcat-blog/NetMirror (Feel free to star 🌟)

Live Demo: https://lg.catcat.cloud/

🧩 Features

Modern UI: Built with Vue 3 and TailwindCSS for a responsive, clean design.
Built-in Tools: Integrated with Ping, iPerf3, Speedtest, BGP information, and more.
Live Traffic Monitoring: See real-time network interface usage.
Interactive Shell: Simulated terminal for basic diagnostics.
Easy Deployment: One-command Docker-based deployment.
Customizable: Configure server info and features via environment variables.
Multi-Node Support: Supports master/slave node grouping for geographic flexibility.
Security First: Only the panel and necessary endpoints are exposed. Nodes communicate securely via gRPC.

UI Preview

📦 Deployment (Docker)

Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/Yuri-NagaSaki/NetMirror.git cd NetMirror

创建环境文件
复制环境文件示例以创建您自己的配置。

cp .env.example .env

If .env.example does not exist, simply create a .env file and refer to the documentation or table of variables.

Customize Config (Optional)
Edit .env to set your server region, public IP, and other configurations.

Here’s a sample docker-compose.yml snippet:

services:
  als:
    image: soyorins/netmirror:latest
    container_name: looking-glass-e
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    user: root
    env_file:
      - .env
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data
      - ./.air.toml:/app/.air.toml
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "wget", "--quiet", "--tries=1", "--spider", "http://localhost:${HTTP_PORT:-80}/"]
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3
    logging:
      driver: "json-file"
      options:
        max-size: "10m"
        max-file: "3"

docker compose up -d 

Once running, access your instance at:
http://:3000
(default port can be modified using the HTTP_PORT environment variable)

Business Edition includes all of the features of Community Edition, plus:

Role Based Access Controls (RBAC)
Authentication and Activity Audit Logging
Enhanced Support for OAuth
Private Registry Management
Advanced GitOps
Resource Management Quotas
Automatic Backups to S3

I registered mine under 5 minutes and the license is working for my nodes.

The first 5 nodes of Portainer business are provided free. They will send you a license key for an initial term of 3 years from your date of sign up. It will automatically and perpetually be renewed without cost for as long as we are using Portainer Business.

grab yours : https://www.portainer.io/pricing/take5

What is Docker?

If you're reading this, most probably you already know Docker or have at least heard about it a lot. But still, for the uninitiated, Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications and it enables you to separate your applications from your infrastructure so you can deliver software quickly. Find Docker interesting and want to know more? Head over to their docs and you can find all the information you need!

What is Portainer?

So, talking about the elephant in the room, Portainer is a fully-featured web based GUI management tool for Docker. It runs locally, giving developers a rich UI to build and publish container images, deploy and manage applications and leverage data persistence and horizontal scaling for their applications.
Worried about the cost? Portainer Community Edition is open source, free forever and used by more than 500,000 developers worldwide.

What can I use Portainer for?

1. Visualize your server's docker environment on your web browser. (I know that you don't fear the terminal, but hey, a little help won't harm anybody!)
2. Aggregate view of Docker Swarm clusters (Yeah, it's that fancy!)
3. Deploy containers with some pre-built templates, right from inside the Portainer.
4. Start, Stop, Kill, Restart, Pause, Resume and Remove the containers easily with the web-GUI.
5. Facing any issue while deploying containers? Don't worry, Portainer to rescue! You can inspect the logs for any containers directly from the GUI and see what is stopping you from conquering the world.

How do I install Portainer?

So, you're happy to give Portainer a go and want to know how can you install it? I have got you covered:

1. Make sure you have Docker Engine installed on your server. You can follow the install instructions given here.
2. Run the following command to create a docker volume which should give output as portainer_data indicating the command was successfully executed:

sudo docker volume create portainer_data

3. Once the volume is created, run the following command to create and run the Portainer container:

sudo docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9000:9000 --name=portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce

The above command should create and run the Portainer container on your server's port number 9000, which can be generally accessed in following ways:

a) By opening http://your_server_ip:9000 in your favorite browser.
b) If you have a domain name pointed towards your server's IP, by opening yourdomain.com:9000 in your browser.

Note: If you want to access Portainer over a subdomain instead of every time typing yourdomain.com:9000, you can put it behind a reverse proxy with the help of any web server, like Caddy.

4. Alright, once the container is up and running, access it via any of the above methods and you will be greeted by the following initial setup screen of Portainer:

Set the username and password for admin user here and click on Create User.

5. Next, select Docker as the container management environment you want Portainer to connect to (yes Portainer can connect to Kubernetes too, but that's a story for another day):

6. Voila! now you have successfully connected your local Docker environment to Portainer and you should be able to see below screen:

7. Click on the local endpoint to see all the containers, images, volumes, networks etc. in your Docker environment:

8. You can also deploy app templates containers right from inside the Portainer:

This is it! Go on, play around a bit and I'm sure you'll love how easy Portainer makes it to manage Docker containers. Given how many of the self-hosted apps can be deployed using Docker containers, Portainer is a must-have tool in your arsenal.

So here is a docker setup guide for anyone wanting to quickly run their own federated messaging server

https://cyberhost.uk/element-matrix-setup

Best Wishes,
CyberHost

We all love to show our virtual Dick on bench marking the shit out of our servers. But i hate to always search for the URL's because I'm too lazy to save them down.

So i had the idea on creating a Docker image which contains the most of the Scripts.
Now my questions,

• Is there any interest in something like that?
• If yes, which scripts would you like to see?
• What are the downsides in this approach?

I would love to hear your opinions about this Topic.