Thread: What is a seedbox?

Seedboxes are the best way to boost your upload ratio on private torrent trackers. You can also use a seedbox for faster downloading, or to avoid lawsuits by the RIAA. See why seedboxes are important for any users of private trackers and how to choose the best seedbox for your needs.

What Is a Seedbox?

High speed private dedicated servers are being set up these days which are based in Europe in the form of Seed Boxes that are connected to high speed networks. The user can get rid of ISP's problems which include the congestion in internet traffic as well as inability to download files quickly due to Government internet filtering. You can log into a remote server from your home and can download or upload digital files at a fast speed. You can use seed boxes very easily as its interface uTorrent WebUI is user friendly and simple to use, as it is connected directly to the server.

There is no need of establishing a remote connection with the advent of WebUI Packages which can be used to access the uTorrent client directly from the customer's computer. Your life becomes easier as it can be accessed through a web browser.

Uploading and downloading is very crucial to the health of trackers. Other BitTorrent users upload the files to a seedbox. With the help of FTP or HTTP these files are downloaded to the users PC at high speed.

What are the Advantages of a Seedbox?

There are many more advantages of using seed boxes in addition to the internet connection speed which is very fast, up to 1000 Mbps, all seed boxes are protected by Peer Guardian 2 for full privacy. These speed boxes can run on the majority of the operating systems such as Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.

VNC connection or remote desktop protocol is provided by some expensive seedboxes which are Windows based. Many popular clients are able to run remotely in this environment. Your home computer doesn't have a BitTorrent client, no problem at all, with a seed box. You don't have to worry about the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) or Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) spying. You can get around school or other network restrictions by downloading the torrent to your seedbox, then downloading the file from your seedbox through FTP. You get rid of scary warning letters and notices from your ISP's and Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) with a seedbox.

What should I look for in a seedbox


Once you go for shopping for a seedbox. You may like to check:
Whether the seed boxes have easy-to-use any of these or all web based interfaces such as TorrentFlux ,uTorrent or wTorrent installed on it or not.
Is the seed box which you are trying to get offering unlimited data transfer or not!
Access to the files is of utmost importance. You must assure that you are getting unlimited access to your files via SFTP, FTP, HTTP and wget!
It is also important to check the number of users per server.
What is the storage capacity or drive space?
The Amount of shared resources and RAM,
What is the throughput limit?
Does the system have powerful dedicated servers?
Do they make Torrents?
Can they run multiple torrents at the same time?
Speed per client
Speed per Torrent
Whether they run multiple torrents at the same time! Some plans limit the amount of torrents hosted at once!
And finally the connection speed of the network.


Hope this information is helpful to anyone considering getting a seedbox.

thx
drinkmylove

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thread will do good in the seedbox section IMO :)

Moved to Seedbox Tutorials. Source also credited.

Remember you can just use the "Report Post" button in the future, guys

Thanks,
-Pulser

thx Pulser For move it
i'll use this button
-HDM-

so if i only focus on pt, seedbox is enought for me, but if i also want to have my own small website, i need to get vps right?
btw, i asked few vps provider, we are not allowed to use pt on their vps.

Grate article!