I am trying to setup the seed file upload. Since my yacy server has direct access to the ftp directory hierarchy, I created a yacy directory in pub/yacy and made it owned by yacy. What I want to do is have yacy put the seed file there directly using file upload, and then it can be downloaded by peers via public ftp. The instructions are insufficient to tell me how to do this.
Hi, Nanook, haven’t seen you for a while!
I’d suppose (in /Settings_p.html?page=seed, Seed Upload Settings):
“Upload Method” → choose “file”, “URL” → address, where file could be downloaded (eg. https://example.org/seed.txt). And Store into filesystem > File Location → path/to/file/seed.txt.
Then check in System Status (/Status.html), section Seed server.
Took me also a while since I figured out the configuration. Somebody complained, that some buttons you got to click twice, before change is accepted, bud I don’t know, if that’s the case.
I, personally, don’t upload the file anywhere, just save it to DATA/HTDOCS/seed.txt and check if is reachable at http://example.org:8090/seed.txt. Don’t know whether that’s legal, but it works 
Thanks much for your help. Server crapped out so was down three months, took three power supplies, seven motherboards, and one new i9-10980xe chip to finally get it stable again.
Previously, I had yacy running in a virtual machine owing to it not respecting memory limitations, but that is fixed in current release so I decided to re-install on the main machine and it had corrupted it’s SOLR database after many crashes when the hardware was unstable anyway.
Indexing rate is much better now and I’ve hardly had time to optimize everything.
Anyway thanks for your guidance. System is now back into full operation.
After a bit of tweaking I was able to get crawl speed up so much I completely saturated a 1Gb/s link and only about 10% CPU utilization. Had to back off on crawl rate just to preserve some link bandwidth.