Pulsed Media

Pulsed Media is a Finnish seedbox and dedicated server hosting provider, operating from its own datacenters in Finland since 2010. PM runs its own hardware, its own management software (PMSS), and its own network (AS203003).

History

The parent company NuCode was registered in Finland in early 2009. Pulsed Media launched in February 2010 alongside Custom Seedbox as a joint effort. Custom Seedbox was later merged into Pulsed Media, and its users were migrated to PM's infrastructure running PMSS.

In July 2010, PM began accepting Bitcoin as payment — probably one of the first hosting companies in the world to do so. This was roughly eight weeks after Bitcoin Pizza Day (May 22, 2010), when the Bitcointalk forum post announcing it was topic #415.

PM has run seedbox hosting continuously since 2010. Rather than renting rack space, PM built its own datacenter infrastructure in Helsinki and Kerava.

Products

All PM seedbox plans are shared (multiple users per server). The product naming convention: V = RAID0 storage, M = RAID5 storage. 1000 = 1 Gbps network, 10G = 10 Gbps network.

Product	Storage type	Network	Capacity	Hardware
V1000	RAID0	1 Gbps	1–8 TB	Opteron
M1000	RAID5	1 Gbps	2–6 TB	Opteron
M10G	RAID5	10 Gbps	2–12 TB	E5v1 to EPYC
Dragon-R	RAID10	20 Gbps	3–16 TB	EPYC

V-series plans use RAID0 for maximum storage per euro. No drive redundancy, but the best value for users who keep their own copies elsewhere. M-series plans use RAID5 with enterprise SAS drives, so one drive can fail completely without data loss. Dragon-R uses RAID10 for both redundancy and write performance on a 20 Gbps port.

PM also offers dedicated servers from its Finnish datacenters. See the dedicated server page for current options.

Full product details and pricing: pulsedmedia.com

Infrastructure

PM operates from two datacenters in Finland:

Helsinki (Lauttasaari, Kiviaidankatu 2) — a well-connected fiber address shared with many providers
Kerava — PM's own datacenter with 200 kW power capacity (3x300A 230V) and 100 kW solar generation

The fleet runs entirely on Debian Linux. Storage uses enterprise SAS drives in RAID arrays, with NVMe SSDs as a cache tier on newer servers. PM holds multiple IPv4 allocations from RIPE and operates its own autonomous system (AS203003).

For full datacenter details, see Pulsed Media Datacenters.

Software

PM develops its seedbox management system in-house: the PM Software Stack (PMSS). PMSS is open source and available on GitHub. It turns a standard Debian server into a multi-user seedbox with rTorrent, Deluge, or qBittorrent, per-user quotas, web interfaces, and automated server configuration.

PMSS handles everything from user creation and quota management to service monitoring and fleet-wide software updates. It has been in continuous production use across PM's servers since the company started.

Anyone can use PMSS to run their own seedbox server. Installation and usage documentation is on the wiki under PM Software Stack Guides.

Company

Pulsed Media is part of Finnish company NuCode, registered in early 2009. NuCode is a VAT-registered company (FI22551954) and charges VAT to residents of the VAT area. All listed prices exclude VAT; it is added during checkout for VAT region residents.