State of Deluge?

[flatline]

Ok, I've read through the FAQ and done some searching in the forums, but I don't have a real clear picture of things... I see that things are at 1.0 RC8. 8 Release Candidates sounds like a fair number, so I'm assuming that the client is approaching a publicly releasable state?

I am currently running Torrentflux on a headless Ubuntu 8.04 x64 server. I have 15/15MBps FIOS internet, and before I put Ubuntu on it a few weeks ago, this same machine was running Windows Home Server. Using uTorrent, I was able to consistently get downloads of 1300+ kbps. Since then, I have only seen 1 out of 20 downloads with any real speed - everything else has been between 30-120kbps. Not bad I guess, but considering what I'm paying, I'm basically a glorified seeder.

I haven't given up 100% on torrentflux, but I would like to try another client, and I'm leaning towards Deluge (I'm a python programmer/lover at heart), but I've been coming up dry trying to find good information. Some of the things I'm pondering:

• Can the current (stable) version be run completely headless? Installing and configuring Torrentflux via SSH was a snap.
• Can the webUI be used to manage the application? For example, how would I enable blocklists and/or encryption over SSH or webUI?
• Can you search/add torrents easily using the web UI?

Based on the sole webUI screenshot, it looks like I can add a torrent and possibly search from inside the UI. Managing the app/plugins looks pretty doubtful though.

[johnnyg]

• Can the current (stable) version be run completely headless? Installing and configuring Torrentflux via SSH was a snap.
• Can the webUI be used to manage the application? For example, how would I enable blocklists and/or encryption over SSH or webUI?
• Can you search/add torrents easily using the web UI?

• technically the latest stable (ie non RC build) is 0.5.9.4, which doesn't support being run headless. the current RC does.
• with the new deluge, you can run it as a daemon by running

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  deluged

  , you can then enable webui by running

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  deluge -u web

  . going to http://localhost:8112, will prompt you for a password (default is deluge). Once you've logged in you can go to settings and enable blocklist plugin there and manage encryption.
• there's an add torrent page that lets you add a torrent via a url or by uploading a .torrent. as for searching, the search plugin hasn't been added in officially yet, but I imagine once it is, it will appear in the web ui (the developer - mvoncken - is very dedicated ).

you also mentioned SSH; an alternative to using the web ui would be to use the gtk ui over ssh (by running deluge -u gtk).
the gtk ui is the same as if you are running deluge locally.