Thread: Seedhost.net

Name: Seedhost.net
Speed: 100mbit
Support: Fast. Set up took 2 days and never gave me an eta. They now say <72 hrs after i had to submit a ticket asking.
GUI: Utorrent
Speed of GUI: I'm pretty impatient, so it's slow enough to get me pissed.
Package: 105GB shared seedbox between 2 users.
Price: $30.00 usd a month
Overall rating: 2/10

Like previous users will tell you, downloading and upload cannot coexist. You download with anything over 4mbps, and it's hello 100kbps upload speed. On top of that, within 15 minutes of that, my upload and downloads crawl to a halt, 0 up and down. This is while on the largest amount of seeders IPT has to offer, and everyone knows how easy it is to get a good buffer there.




They will NOT give you a refund despite it being their fault. When i asked for a refund they insulted me and said "We were here before you, and we'll be here after you. Do your worst." Horrible horrible business. I'm getting ripped off a good amount, and advise anyone interested in this place to stay the hell away!

Name: Seedhost

Speed: 100mbps, generally good. Has been slow at times despite high number of seeders, but for the price I can't complain about it. At times I've been getting a few megabytes a second on downloads.

Support: This is where the problem was, for me. With it being the Christmas period, a lot of people run short on money. I sent Seedhost a message saying I might be just a little bit late with the payment, and requesting a small extension. My payment was due on Christmas Day. They said this was okay and told me I had a small extension. I actually got the money I needed on Christmas, but obviously couldn't put it in the bank at that point. Checked my e-mail on the morning of the 26th, and had received a new message from Seedhost. Bam, everything gone. They said they had made a decision to close my account. About 100GB of data down the drain.

In terms of support during my time with them, they were very friendly. The prices are good too. But come on, one day late? For this I cannot trust Seedhost again, and will be seeking a new host.

GUI: uTorrent-based, with the WebUI you can connect to. Plus, you can use VNC to manage uTorrent which on this package was loaded via WINE on a Debian box.

Speed of GUI: Can't complain here. Though I didn't like one aspect of the uTorrent WebUI. If you have a lot of files to handle in torrents, it takes a very long time to get through the many "pages" of files. Thus use VNC when possible.

Package: Shared Box 105GB (They all seem to be sold out as of now though)

Price: 20 EUR per month, without automatic renewal. You make the payment via PayPal every month so it is easy to cancel.

Overall rating: 6/10. If it wasn't for the problem I had with them, I'd be giving them a much higher rating. I just can't trust them after that. They even told me that if they ever had to wipe it they'd keep a backup for me, but nope. If you're a student like me and money's precious, I'd be careful because they're not so nice when it comes to even very short late payments. Otherwise it would be a 9/10, so if you can overlook this, go ahead with them when they get available servers.

Name: seedhost.net
Speed: 100Mbps
Support: 8/10. They are usually quite fast. On working day the response will on the same day, during weekend you may need to wait a day.
GUI: That's a tricky question. They use uTorrent web gui. It's quite fast didn't have any problem with it. But I dont like uTorrent web gui. It's very limited comparing to real utorrent. So if you are ok with uTorrent it's 10/10.
Speed: This is my first seedbox, so I didn't really know what to expect. I really had that thought that there will be constant very high speeds on any torrent =))) How naive I was! Then I learnt that it all depends on torrent.
Download speed is good, I had good seeded torrents downloading at 10-11 Mb. Though usually it's more like 3-4, but still it all depends on seeders and not seedbox itself.
Upload speed is different. I am not really sure what's the cause, but upload speed on the same torrent jumps from 150 kb to 2-3 Mb during the day. Is it cause of seedbox or leechers? I don't know. On some torrents I had 4-5 Mb upload.
Package: I have shared seedbox with 105Gb for 20 Euro. The info on website states that it's shared with 2 users. I did my research of file system through VNC and found that I am alone on the server. Though my home folder is called slot2 and there is a folder called slot1, but it was empty.
Price: 20 euro
Overall rating: 8/10 I dont really have anything to compare it with.

I had two big problems with this seedbox. First, VNC is horrible slow. It's almost impossible to use browser under VNC, sometimes connection just times out.
The second problem is with FTP. I have very low speeds with their FTP server. Like 10-15 kb. I know this is my local problem, I've asked a friend from another country to download anything and it was fine for him.
I've tried to fix this problem with support, but they were not much helpful except asking to change FTP client. After that didn't work they asked for tracert to server and said that they will submit a ticket to OVH about this.