Thread: What's a seedbox!?

A seed-box is a specialized pc/server for seeding your torrents.
Since these also tend to have very high speed you are able to seed more on the torrents and you can also shut down your pc at home. ^^ (at least if the seed-box ain't there.) It does exactly what is says, seeding. Seeding your torrents. =)

You work with them through a web-UI as far as I understand, at least most tend to do so. I think it's also possible to do it with a remote access, maybe even desktop. Mostly is Linux installed since it's lighter and you can get a cheaper server. =)
Think you are acknowledged enough for that, and otherwise you can learn it. ^^

And I don't know if you are able to make one, probably not since I don't think you have a xxxMbit connection at your home. You could rent it on a server, I heard only Europe in VIP section, don't know why I am not an expert. ^^"
If you have high speed connection I would go for a cheap pc with lot of HD-space and low power usage. ^^ (and ofcourse able to handle at least 100mbit. =p

I could be wrong in some points since I have never used them and I am not planning too. =) So didn't had the interest to learn about it yet. ^^ ( at least not excesively. )

Hope it helped, and I get corrected on some points. =p (if they ain't right. ^^ )
*Greetings, Elonoir. *

Seedbox

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A seedbox is a private dedicated server used for the uploading and downloading of digital files.1 Seedboxes generally make use of the BitTorrent protocol for uploading and downloading, although they have also been used on the edonkey2000 network. Seedboxes are usually plugged in to high speed bandwidth networks, often with a throughput of 100 mbit/s or more. Files are uploaded to a seedbox from other BitTorrent users, and from there they can be downloaded at high speeds to a user's personal computer via the HTTP, FTP, SFTP, or rsync protocols.
Seedboxes can run on most major operating systems (OpenDNS, OpenDNS, or Mac OS X). More expensive seedboxes may provide VNC connection, or remote desktop protocol on some Windows-based seedboxes, allowing many popular clients to be run remotely. Other seedboxes are special purpose and run variety of torrent specific software including web interfaces of popular clients like OpenDNS, rTorrent and μTorrent, as well as the OpenDNS web interface clients.
Seedboxes on high speed networks are typically able to download large files within minutes (only if the swarm can actually provide such a high upload bandwidth). A 1 GB file can take less than five minutes to download. That same 1 gigabyte file can be uploaded to other users in the same amount of time, creating a 1:1 upload:download ratio for that individual file. The ability of a seedbox to transfer files so quickly is a big attractions seedboxes hold within the P2P and BitTorrent communities.
Because of the mentioned high speeds, seedboxes tend to be extremely popular inside private torrent trackers, where maintaining a download/upload ratio above 1 can be very important.