Transmission
A headless daemon does the downloading while you drive it from any browser: Transmission turns a plain server into a private download station that needs no desktop session and no seedbox subscription. Add torrents by file, magnet link, or watch directory, then follow progress, priorities, and per-file selection from the web interface. Speed rules keep transfers polite: global and per-torrent limits, ratio targets that stop seeding at the share you choose, and scheduled alternate limits for office hours. Bad-peer blocklists, peer exchange, DHT, and protocol encryption are built in, and trackers can be edited per torrent when a swarm moves. Finished downloads can be relocated automatically, incomplete files kept apart, and new torrents queued in the order you add them. The same daemon answers the transmission-remote command line and third-party remote apps over its RPC interface, so scripts can add, pause, and inspect transfers alongside the browser. It runs on modest hardware with a small memory footprint, which is why NAS vendors have shipped it for years. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.
XBackBone
XBackBone is a self-hosted file and media sharing platform that turns your own server into a tidy home for screenshots, clips, and PDFs, giving each file a clean short link with rich embeds for chat and social apps instead of expiring file-transfer links. Capture tools plug straight in: generate a ready-made uploader config for ShareX, ScreenCloud, ishare, Spectacle, Xerahs, the macOS Share sheet, or a CLI script, and new screenshots land on your instance with the link copied. The dashboard previews images, video, audio waveforms, PDFs, and syntax-highlighted code in the browser, and pastes plus link shortening cover text and URLs. Make any upload public or private, add a password, or set an expiration date, and identical files are stored once thanks to content fingerprinting. Storage stays flexible across local disk, Amazon S3 and compatible services, FTP, and SFTP. Admins manage users with roles, disk quotas, and usage statistics, review a searchable activity timeline, and toggle registrations or themes without redeploying. Accounts support email verification, password resets, two-factor codes, and passkeys. A guided web installer handles first setup, and admins can apply updates from the browser. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.