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Guides and documentation for Pulsed Media seedboxes, dedicated servers, and the PMSS management system.
PM has run seedbox hosting on its own infrastructure in Finland since 2010.
Getting started
New to PM? Start here:
- Seedbox — what a seedbox is, how it works, and what PM offers
- Seedbox access via FTP, SSH and SFTP — connect to your seedbox and transfer files
- Downloading from seedbox — get files from your seedbox to your local machine
- Rclone tutorial — mount your seedbox storage as a local drive
- Network Diagnostics — test and troubleshoot your connection
Seedbox guides
Torrent clients
- RTorrent vs qBittorrent vs Deluge — comparison of all three clients on PM seedboxes
- Installing autodl-irssi
- Uploading torrent files to Seedbox
- How to superseed
- Using watch directory
- Restarting rTorrent
- Accessing rTorrent console
- Removing rTorrent session data
- Troubleshooting Seeding Issues
File transfers
- Seedbox access via FTP, SSH and SFTP
- Downloading from seedbox
- Connecting with FileZilla (SFTP)
- Rclone: mount seedbox via SFTP
- Rclone tutorial
- Checking disk usage
- Storage quota: how it works
Media and applications
- Seedbox for Plex and Jellyfin — using your seedbox as a remote media server
- Jellyfin — Jellyfin setup and configuration on PM seedboxes
- Rootless Docker
- Managing your seedbox (Deluge, rsync)
- Private trackers and ratio management
Connectivity
- Network Diagnostics
- Network Troubleshooting with MTR
- Connecting using Putty
- SSH tunneling
- Using Transdroid
- Enabling UTF-8 in Putty for irssi
- Using irssi and screen
Comparison guides
- Seedbox vs VPS — when a seedbox makes more sense than a VPS
- RTorrent vs qBittorrent vs Deluge — which torrent client to use
- Pulsed Media 10Gbps Seedbox — 1Gbps vs 10Gbps and when to upgrade
Products
| Product | Type | Network | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|
| V1000 | Shared seedbox (RAID0) | 1 Gbps | 1-8 TB |
| M1000 | Shared seedbox (RAID5) | 1 Gbps | 2-6 TB |
| M10G | Shared seedbox (RAID5) | 10 Gbps | 2-12 TB |
| V10G | Shared seedbox (RAID0) | 10 Gbps | 2-16 TB |
| Dragon-R | Shared seedbox (RAID10) | 20 Gbps | 3-16 TB |
Full product details and pricing at pulsedmedia.com.
For dedicated servers, see the dedicated server page.
Infrastructure
- Pulsed Media Datacenters — Helsinki (Lauttasaari) and Kerava, own infrastructure, network details
- Seedbox Finland — why Finland works for seedbox hosting
- RAID storage — how PM uses RAID0, RAID5, and RAID10 across product tiers
- Debian — the operating system running the entire PM fleet
- NVMe — SSD cache tier on newer servers
- Hard disk drive — enterprise drives in PM's RAID arrays
- BitTorrent — the protocol behind seedbox hosting
- Bitcoin — PM accepted Bitcoin in July 2010, weeks after Bitcoin Pizza Day
Server administration
For dedicated server and VPS customers:
- Installing Advanced Policy Firewall and Brute Force Detection
- Basic usage of Software Raid (MDADM)
- Changing server hostname
- Changing nameservers
- Flushing DNS cache in Linux
- Checking bandwidth usage in realtime
- Monitoring bandwidth and traffic
- Creating SFTP jail chroot
- Managing Your VPS
- Windows: disable password expiration
Linux reference
- Linux most used Commands
- Linux basic commands for navigation
- File Management
- How to connect via SSH
- IP & Network
PM Software Stack (PMSS)
PMSS is the open-source management system running on every PM seedbox server. Documentation for server operators:
- Installing PM Software Stack
- Updating PMSS
- Adding a new user
- Removing user
- Changing user settings
- Fixing Quota
- Suspending and unsuspending users
- Transferring users between servers
- Automated tasks
- Creating modules
- rTorrent configuration templates
- Fixing a broken user GUI
- Letting users change rTorrent settings
- Whitelabel setup for resellers
- Per-user bandwidth monitoring
PMSS source code: github.com/MagnaCapax/PMSS
About Pulsed Media
Pulsed Media has operated since 2010 from its own datacenters in Finland. Own hardware, own software (PMSS), own network (AS203003).
For the full story, see Pulsed Media.
Contributing
This wiki is maintained by Pulsed Media. Customers who want to contribute can contact support to request an editor account.