Cruising? You need to get right now a seedbox! BySydney Butler-January 10, 2018 “0/0.2103.jpg” BitTorrent is a great technology that has really revolutionized the way in which we share files. It’s not a very private technology though. Just about everybody in the same crowd where you see who you are and what you download. For anonymous torrenting the go-to solution is a good Vpn service. On TechNadu we have reviewed and recommended a lot of Vpns that do a great job of keeping your torrenting operation secret from both your Isp and whoever watches a given torrent. What if I told you there’s another way to get torrenting in private? A method that can boost your torrent speeds to anything that your connection can handle as well. Welcome to the Seedbox world.
“0/0.2104.jpg” The user who has a complete copy of the file and shares it with other swarm users in the BitTorrent jargon is a “pod.” If you are a generous seeder then you will be rewarded with a bigger slice of bandwidth by the torrent tracker, and you will see faster downloads. This is particularly important for private trackers where for the tracker to be successful people have to do their share. However being a dedicated seeder is not the easiest thing to do from a home connection. It eats up the upstream bandwidth for one thing like it’s nobody’s business. The longer you are seeding the larger a target you are. Frankly most people end up being “leechers” on public trackers who download a file and then leave immediately.
But why does one need?
If you’re not a serious BitTorrent user, you might not be all interested in seed ratios, but there are plenty of other reasons to spend the money on a decent seed box. Especially since these days, you can have your budget and needs tailored to one. Let’s take a look at some of the key reasons for getting your own seedbox (beyond being a seeder god).
Doesn’t it?Sharing-friendly locations
Many seedboxes are hosted in countries with a favorable legal framework when it comes to peer-to-peer file sharing. Countries such as Spain the Netherlands Switzerland and Mexico provide safe havens for torrenting services like seedboxes. It provides a double layer of privacy as long as the seedbox provider has a good policy on personal information itself.
A great way to share files “0/0.2106.jpg” While most of us think of torrents as a place for downloading stuff, it’s a great way to share files too. Let’s say you have a website and want files to be made available but regular hosting is too expensive or too slow. Well you can make the file available via torrent using your seedbox. If your file is meant only for a few people then you don’t have to pay a lot for the hosting. However, if many people want the file, then BitTorrent’s distributed nature will also help ease the use of bandwidth on your seedbox. You can easily pay a little more if you hit the bandwidth limit to get it extended for a while, too.
Saving Bandwidth
Torrenting uses up- and down-stream bandwidth significant. Even if you’re on an uncapped connection, chopping a piece of bandwidth for your torrents still will degrade the overall experience. For maximum speed, you can either give up your connection or deal with slooow downloads but an internet experience that is usable. With a seedbox the problem is no longer yours. The seedbox does its thing until it is ready to deliver the actual files to you. Your bandwidth remains totally untouched up to then.
Convenience
Most seedboxes have very helpful web interfaces with all kinds of tools to make it easy to torrent and access files wherever you are.
Work Where Vpns Don’t
Sometimes you just can’t use a Vpn. It could be due to blocking of Isp, or simply because your speeds are suffering too much. Whatever the reason you can’t use a seedbox Vpn for torrents is a good alternative to keep your privacy and still enjoy top speeds. Even if you’re happy with the Vpn seedboxes that offer such a good torrenting experience you might still want one. A Private Streaming Server
“0/0.2108.jpg” Although many seedboxes are not universal, they offer the ability to stream content directly from the box. Some have Plex offerings or can be linked to your Kodi application. However you set it up, it ensures you can have a private high-speed streaming server from wherever there is an internet connection to access your content. Pretty cool OK?
Shared seedboxes are not only the most affordable option they almost always come fully reconfigured with an easy to use web interface. It is called a “shared” seedbox because you share your own account with a physical web server with other users each. This means that you don’t get the server’s full resources but that even a shared seedbox is overkill for most people who just want to torrent fast and in private. It is important to check whether the shared seedbox provider splits the server between users with fixed resources, or if they are shared. If there are lots of people jumping on board at times things will slow down otherwise. How much storage space and total bandwidth you get per month also matters.
Vanced Seedbox Options “0/0.2110.jpg” There are two other types of seedbox that are better for users with more advances. A Vps or virtual private server remains a solution providing you with a share of a larger physical server. However not all users run a account-based system on the same computer. Instead you get a root-access virtual machine, so you can customize it. It’s not for the faint-hearted but provides a good balance between a dedicated physical server’s control and a shared seedbox’s cost. Speaking of which the ultimate (and most expensive) option is to rent a dedicated physical server that you can configure to yourself with full 24/7 performance. This is a suitable option for people whose business essentially is to seed torrents.
How do I use a Common Seedbox? While individual seedbox providers generally vary in the exact operation details they are more or less identical. You’ll be sent a credential as well as a link to the web interface after signing up for an account and paying any fees. It may take a while to spin up a new account but in my experience you will be up and running at most within the first hour. You will see several web apps after you log in. These typically include a cloud-based torrent client that has a file manager and a dashboard that shows your monthly stats. Beyond that, the different providers add value propositions of all sorts that may appeal to one degree or another.
Loading Torrents It’s fairly simple to get your seedbox to start downloading a torrent. All you need to do is upload the torrent file from the torrent interface of the Web software. You can even better simply copy and paste a magnet connection into clients like RuTorrent. So you never get to download the torrent file yourself!
Downloading and uploading Files
How do I use a Common Seedbox? While individual seedbox providers generally vary in the exact operation details they are more or less identical. You’ll be sent a credential as well as a link to the web interface after signing up for an account and paying any fees. It may take a while to spin up a new account but in my experience you will be up and running at most within the first hour. You will see several web apps after you log in. These typically include a cloud-based torrent client that has a file manager and a dashboard that shows your monthly stats. Beyond that, the different providers add value propositions of all sorts that may appeal to one degree or another.
Loading Torrents It’s fairly simple to get your seedbox to start downloading a torrent. All you need to do is upload the torrent file from the torrent interface of the Web software. You can even better simply copy and paste a magnet connection into clients like RuTorrent. So you never get to download the torrent file yourself!
Downloading and uploading Files
Downloading and uploading Files
The simplest way to do this is to download them directly via Háps. Just like downloading any other file from a website, and going through the download manager of your computer. That’s Ok for the odd little script. There are better ways to do so if you want to move a lot of gigabytes of data. Most likely, the best way is to use Sftp which is an encrypted Ftp connection. You need client software like FileZilla or (in my case) WinScp to utilize this. Just put in the login details provided by Sftp, and you can use a client to manage files in both directions. Many seedbox providers now also allow direct connections to OpenVpn, too. So there’s really a whole menu of private transfer options.