[ivanr]

We want to be able to download multiple files from free hosters such as ddl or rapidgator at the same time.

My two siblings have small debian/ubuntu servers at their respective homes and I have a few vservers in US, UK and Germany.

- What kind of proxy should I install on those machines?
http, socks5 - which is preferred? any software you can recommend thats easy to set up?

- Do file hosters allow downloading to datacenter ip addresses?
or is it a waste of time and I should just stick to residential proxies

- What settings do I have to use in jdownloader?
What does the "balance" mode do? What is the proxy host ban timeout used for?


Thank you

[pspzockerscene]

I'll answer some of these questions on the surface.

Originally Posted by ivanr

- Do file hosters allow downloading to datacenter ip addresses?
or is it a waste of time and I should just stick to residential proxies

A lot of them claim to block datacenter IPs and also popular VPNs (e.g. filehoster 1fichier.com) but in the end you never know so just test it.

[Jiaz]

Originally Posted by ivanr

- What kind of proxy should I install on those machines?
http, socks5 - which is preferred? any software you can recommend thats easy to set up?

Both is perfectly fine, though socks5 would be my first choice as it offers choice between remote/local DNS resolving
and better error handling due to how the protocol works. Also socks5 is more lightweight protocol.
There are tons of available how-tos or ready2use docker/xy container/images. As for plain software, I prefer
squid(http proxy) and dante or hev-socks5-server (both socks5 proxy).

Originally Posted by ivanr

- Do file hosters allow downloading to datacenter ip addresses?
or is it a waste of time and I should just stick to residential proxies

pspzockerscene already answered this. in the end, you've got to test this by yourself

Originally Posted by ivanr

- What settings do I have to use in jdownloader?
What does the "balance" mode do? What is the proxy host ban timeout used for?

By default JDownloader makes use of proxies from top to bottom in list. Balance -> try to assign downloads to proxy in *balanced* way so each proxy has about the same downloads. random is "random" choice of proxy. cycle is "first", then "2nd", then "3rd" and so on. GeneralSettings.proxyhostbantimeout -> define the time a proxy is temp. disabled for a specific host in case of errors

[ivanr]

Originally Posted by pspzockerscene

A lot of them claim to block datacenter IPs and also popular VPNs (e.g. filehoster 1fichier.com) but in the end you never know so just test it.

Fair enough. Thank you!

Originally Posted by Jiaz

There are tons of available how-tos or ready2use docker/xy container/images. As for plain software, I prefer
squid(http proxy) and dante or hev-socks5-server (both socks5 proxy).

I used danted in the past but found it somewhat complex to set up. I was running it as systemd service tho, I suppose in a container it's much more straighforward. I'll give those a shot. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Jiaz

By default JDownloader makes use of proxies from top to bottom in list. Balance -> try to assign downloads to proxy in *balanced* way so each proxy has about the same downloads. random is "random" choice of proxy. cycle is "first", then "2nd", then "3rd" and so on. GeneralSettings.proxyhostbantimeout -> define the time a proxy is temp. disabled for a specific host in case of errors

Is there any way to limit it to one download per filehost per proxy?
So that with 4 proxies it could download e.g. 4x ddl, 4x 1f and 4x rapidgator at the same time without blocking eachother?

[Jiaz]

Originally Posted by ivanr

Is there any way to limit it to one download per filehost per proxy?
So that with 4 proxies it could download e.g. 4x ddl, 4x 1f and 4x rapidgator at the same time without blocking eachother?

Just use Balance if you setup 4 downloads of rg, then those will be spread among the 4 proxies. same for other hosts