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Pulsed Media Seedbox and Storage Features

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Pulsed_Media seedboxes and storage boxes run on PMSS (Pulsed Media Seedbox Solution), a seedbox management platform built and maintained since 2010. PMSS is open source under GPL v3. Every feature listed here ships on every shared seedbox and storage box plan unless noted otherwise. A few features need a minimum amount of RAM; the notes say which.

Every seedbox and storage box runs on hardware Pulsed Media owns, inside datacenter infrastructure Pulsed Media owns and operates in Finland. No rented servers, no reselling.

At a Glance

Category Count
Torrent clients 3 (rTorrent, Deluge, qBittorrent)
ruTorrent plugins 41
Media stack apps 7 (one-click install from the web panel)
File transfer protocols 7+ native
Pre-installed CLI tools 100+
VPN types 2 (WireGuard, OpenVPN)
Web interfaces 7+ (including a browser shell console)
Monitoring and self-healing cron jobs 20+

Torrent Clients

Three torrent clients are available. rTorrent is the default; Deluge and qBittorrent can be enabled per-user.

Client Interface Notes
rTorrent ruTorrent (web) Default client. Custom-compiled with udns patch for async DNS. Cron watchdog auto-restarts on crash.
Deluge Deluge WebUI + daemon Toggle on/off per user. Separate watchdog.
qBittorrent qBittorrent WebUI Toggle on/off per user. Separate watchdog.

ruTorrent Plugins (41)

Every ruTorrent installation ships with these plugins:

autotools check_port chunks cookies create data datadir edit
erasedata extratio extsearch feeds filedrop geoip hddquota history
httprpc ipad loginmgr lookat mediainfo ratio retrackers rpc
rss rssurlrewrite rutracker_check scheduler screenshots seedingtime show_peers_like_wtorrent source
spectrogram _task theme throttle tracklabels trafic unpack uploadeta
xmpp

Notable plugins:

  • autotools — automatic label, move, and execute on torrent completion
  • rss + rssurlrewrite — automated RSS feed downloading with regex filters
  • unpack — automatic archive extraction after download
  • mediainfo — media file metadata display directly in the torrent UI
  • filedrop — drag-and-drop .torrent upload
  • scheduler — bandwidth scheduling by time of day
  • geoip — peer geolocation display
  • spectrogram — audio file spectrogram generation (useful for music trackers requiring spectrograms on upload)
  • hddquota — disk quota display in the ruTorrent interface
  • screenshots — video screenshot capture

Media Server Stack

The media stack installer sets up seven applications in your account. On the welcome tab of the web panel, the Install Media Stack button runs the first install without SSH. Reruns and options go over SSH with install-media-stack.sh.

Application Purpose Details
Jellyfin Media server Stream your media library from your seedbox. Software transcoding via FFmpeg.
Sonarr v4 TV show automation Monitors RSS feeds, downloads new episodes automatically, organizes and renames files.
Radarr Movie automation Same as Sonarr but for movies. Searches indexers, grabs releases, renames.
Prowlarr Indexer manager Central indexer configuration for Sonarr, Radarr, and other *arr apps.
SABnzbd Usenet downloader NZB processing with automatic repair and extraction.
Autobrr Release grabber Picks up new releases from IRC announce channels and feeds, then hands them to your download client.
Cloudplow Cloud upload Automated upload to Google Drive, Dropbox, or any Rclone-supported target.

The installer handles:

  • A login with a generated password for every web app, on by default. The passwords are saved to ~/.media-stack-credentials.txt, readable only by you.
  • Random port assignment (no conflicts between users)
  • Lighttpd reverse proxy configuration: each web app is reached over HTTPS at /public-USERNAME/APP/, and the app's own login decides who gets in
  • tmux session management (attach/detach without killing apps)
  • All apps bind to localhost; none listens on a public port

The welcome tab lists each installed app as Protected or Exposed, depending on whether the app has its own login set, and offers a Secure this app action for exposed ones (what the badges mean). A cron job tracks the media-stack apps and records repeated failures, and the panel's restart-all button starts any app that has stopped.

Memory: the full stack needs about 900 MB of RAM. The installer stops on accounts with less than 1024 MiB, so it does not fit the free trial (250 MB) or storage boxes (500 MB). Jellyfin needs FFmpeg 4.4 or newer, which Debian 12 servers provide.

Pre-Installed CLI Tools

Every PMSS server ships with 100+ pre-installed command-line tools, ready on first SSH login.

The full package selection is defined in the PMSS source code under the dpkg baseline files (scripts/lib/update/dpkg/selections-debian*.txt).

Media and Audio Tools

Tool What It Does
ffmpeg / ffprobe Video/audio transcoding, conversion, stream extraction, remuxing.
mediainfo Detailed metadata for video, audio, and subtitle files. Codec, bitrate, resolution, channel layout. From the MediaArea repository.
mkvtoolnix MKV container tools: mkvmerge, mkvextract, mkvinfo. Merge, split, extract, and edit Matroska files.
sox Audio processing: format conversion, effects, spectrogram generation, volume normalization.
flac FLAC encoder/decoder. Lossless audio compression and verification.
lame MP3 encoder.
FileBot Media file renamer and organizer. Matches files against TheTVDB, TMDb, AniDB. Pre-built from PM repository.
mktorrent Create .torrent files from the command line. For cross-seeding and uploading to private trackers.

Backup and Sync Tools

Tool What It Does
BorgBackup Deduplicating backup with compression and encryption. Efficient incremental backups of large media collections.
borgmatic Wrapper for BorgBackup. Schedule and automate Borg backup jobs with a YAML config.
Restic Fast, encrypted backup to local or cloud storage (S3, B2, SFTP, rclone backends).
Rclone Sync files to 40+ cloud providers (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, S3, Backblaze B2, etc.). Built-in WebUI included.
Syncthing Continuous peer-to-peer file synchronization between your seedbox and other devices.
Resilio Sync Peer-to-peer folder sync with the Resilio apps (rslsync).
s3fs Mount S3-compatible buckets as a local filesystem via FUSE.
sshfs Mount remote filesystems over SSH. Access your seedbox files as a local drive.

Archive and Compression

Tool What It Does
p7zip 7-Zip file archiver. Handles 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, TAR, and more.
unrar Extract RAR archives. Essential for private tracker releases.
unar Universal archive extractor. Handles RAR, ZIP, 7z, TAR, LHA, and more.
unp Universal unpacker. Detects format and calls the right extractor.
par2 PAR2 parity file verification and repair. Reconstruct damaged or missing files in Usenet downloads.
pigz Parallel gzip. Multi-threaded compression, much faster than gzip on multi-core servers.

Download Managers

Tool What It Does
aria2 Multi-protocol download utility (HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink). Segmented downloading.
lftp FTP/SFTP client with mirroring, segmented transfers, and scripting. Standard for seedbox-to-seedbox transfers.
FlexGet Automation daemon for downloading from RSS feeds, websites, and other sources. Installed with youtube-dl.
pyLoad Download manager for direct links and file hosters (pyload).
SABnzbd / NZBGet Usenet downloaders installed as system packages. NZBGet is in the Debian 12 server baseline.

IRC Bouncers and Chat

Tool What It Does
ZNC IRC bouncer. Stays connected to IRC networks 24/7 and replays messages when you reconnect. Perl, Python, and Tcl plugin modules included.
WeeChat Terminal IRC client with scripting support (Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua). Full-featured alternative to irssi.
irssi Classic terminal IRC client.

Shell and Terminal

Tool What It Does
screen Terminal multiplexer. Run persistent sessions that survive SSH disconnects.
tmux Modern terminal multiplexer. Split panes, multiple windows, session persistence.
mosh Mobile shell. SSH replacement that handles roaming, intermittent connectivity, and high latency.
vim Text editor.
nano Simple text editor.
Midnight Commander (mc) Two-panel file manager for the terminal. Browse, copy, move, edit files visually.
ranger Vim-like terminal file manager with preview support.
zsh Z shell. Alternative to bash with better tab completion and globbing.
ncdu NCurses disk usage analyzer. Find what is eating your quota.
htop Interactive process viewer. Monitor CPU, memory, and process activity.
tree Display directory structure as a tree.
elinks / links / lynx / w3m Text-mode web browsers.

Network Tools

Tool What It Does
mtr Network diagnostic combining traceroute and ping. Useful for diagnosing routing issues.
traceroute Trace the network path to a host.
netcat TCP/UDP network utility. Test connections, transfer data, debug protocols.
vnstat Network traffic monitor. Track bandwidth usage over time.
bwm-ng Real-time bandwidth monitor for all network interfaces.
dnsutils DNS lookup tools: dig, nslookup, host.
whois WHOIS domain and IP lookup.
inetutils-telnet Telnet client for testing TCP connections.
ethtool Query and configure network interface settings.

Development Tools

Tool What It Does
git Version control.
gcc / g++ C/C++ compilers (build-essential).
make Build automation.
Python 3 Python interpreter with pip and venv. Install your own Python packages in user-space.
PHP PHP CLI with extensions (curl, gd, mbstring, sqlite3, xml, zip).
Perl Perl interpreter with common modules.
Ruby Ruby interpreter with RubyGems.
Mono .NET runtime. Runs .NET applications (used by Sonarr, Radarr on older deployments).

Docker (Rootless)

Docker rootless is installed on all servers. Each user runs their own Docker daemon without root privileges, and a cron watchdog keeps it running. Other users and server security are not affected. Debian 12 servers also include the Docker Compose plugin. When an account moves to another server, its rootless containers move with it.

Containers that work well rootless on PMSS:

Category Containers
*Arr automation Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, Bazarr, Prowlarr, Jackett, FlareSolverr, Unpackerr
Media servers Jellyfin, Emby, Tautulli
Request management Overseerr, Jellyseerr, Ombi
Download automation autobrr, cross-seed, NZBGet
Media (specialty) Audiobookshelf, Navidrome, Kavita, Calibre-Web, Mylar3
File management FileBrowser, Nextcloud, Syncthing
Dashboards Homarr, Portainer, Uptime Kuma
General Databases, web apps, APIs, anything with a Docker image

HTTPS for your containers: bind the container to 127.0.0.1 and add a short proxy fragment to your own lighttpd in ~/.lighttpd/custom.d/. The container is then reachable at https://SERVER.pulsedmedia.com/user-USERNAME/APP/. There is no automatic per-container subdomain; each container gets its own fragment. Step by step: Serving a Container Over HTTPS. Self-Hosted Apps on PMSS lists 39 applications that run this way, with the path setting and login default of each.

Rootless limitations to know:

  • Ports below 1024 require remapping (e.g., -p 8443:443 instead of -p 443:443)
  • VPN containers (Gluetun, Tailscale) need NET_ADMIN capability, which rootless cannot grant. Use the native WireGuard or OpenVPN instead.
  • GPU/hardware transcoding needs device access not available in rootless. Software transcoding works fine.

All LinuxServer.io images support PUID/PGID environment variables for correct file permissions in rootless mode.

File Transfer Protocols

Seven file transfer protocols work out of the box. No configuration needed.

Protocol Implementation Use Case
SFTP OpenSSH / ProFTPD Encrypted file transfer. Most common method. Works with FileZilla, WinSCP, Cyberduck. See Seedbox_access_via_FTP,_SSH_and_SFTP.
FTP / FTPS ProFTPD Legacy protocol. FTPS adds TLS encryption. Per-user isolation.
SCP OpenSSH Single-file transfers over SSH. Fast for individual files.
rsync Via SSH Incremental sync. Transfers only changed bytes. Best for large collections.
WebDAV lighttpd mod_webdav Mount your seedbox as a network drive. Access at /webdav-USERNAME.
HTTP / HTTPS lighttpd Direct file download via browser. SSL/TLS encrypted.
SSHFS Via SSH Mount your seedbox filesystem locally. Appears as a local drive on your computer.

Web Hosting and Stable URLs

Every account has a public web folder, separate from the password-protected panel. The web hosting guide covers it in full.

Feature Details
Public web folder Files in ~/www/public/ are served without a login at /public-USERNAME/. PHP works out of the box.
Public subdomain USERNAME.SERVER.pulsedmedia.com serves the same folder.
mcx.fi permalink A permanent hostname per service that follows the account when it moves to another server. See Permalinks on PMSS.
HTTPS certificate Run ~/bin/createWebPublicCerts once over SSH for a Let's Encrypt certificate covering the permalink. Add --with-username-hostname to include the subdomain, which publishes the username in public certificate logs. It renews automatically.
Custom domain Put your own domain in front of the public folder: Custom Domains on PMSS.
Your own lighttpd rules Fragments in ~/.lighttpd/custom.d/ add your own rules, such as a reverse proxy to a container: Lighttpd Custom Configuration.

VPN

Two VPN types route your traffic through the seedbox's IP:

VPN Features
WireGuard A ready-to-import profile in ~/wireguard.txt. More devices: add their public keys to ~/.wireguard-public-key and the server adds them as peers automatically. Cron watchdog keeps the tunnel up. If your home directory has no ~/wireguard.txt, open a support ticket. Setup guide.
OpenVPN Client configuration download on the welcome tab of the panel, where it is labelled Beta.

Both VPN services bind traffic to the seedbox's IP address, so your home IP is never exposed to peers or trackers.

Web Interfaces

Interface Purpose
Custom WebGUI Tabbed dashboard. Service status, resource usage, quick links to all installed apps. Also on the welcome tab: a button that restarts all your services, a torrent configuration backup you can download and restore, and opt-in usage alert emails (traffic at 80% of the allowance, disk at 90% of quota, or a media-stack app down). New customers: dashboard guide.
Shell console A shell in your browser, running as your own account. No SSH client needed. Optional persistent tmux session that keeps running after you close the panel.
Media stack panel Install button, per-app Protected/Exposed status, and recovery for stopped apps.
ruTorrent Torrent management with 41 plugins. The primary torrent interface.
Web File Manager Upload, download, rename, move files through your browser.
Rclone WebUI Manage cloud storage transfers. Toggle on/off. Browse remote storage, start transfers, check progress.
Stats Page Traffic graphs (Chart.js), service status indicators, resource monitoring.

All web interfaces are served over HTTPS with automatically renewed Let's Encrypt certificates.

Storage

RAID Protection

Product Line RAID Level What It Means
V-series (V10G, Value1000) RAID 0 Maximum speed and capacity. No redundancy; a single drive failure means data loss.
M-series (M1000, M10G, M10G Storage) RAID 5 One drive can fail completely without data loss. Automatic rebuild when replaced.
SSD lines (M1000 SSD, M10G SSD) RAID 0 SSD speed, no redundancy.
Dragon-R (semi-dedicated) RAID 10 Mirrors every drive for redundancy plus striping for performance. Fewer users per server.

RAID 5 starts at EUR 6.99/month (M1000 S, price as of 6 October 2026). RAID protects against a failed drive; it is not a backup.

Storage Types

Type Available On Notes
HDD All shared plans, storage boxes, Dragon-R, MD MiniDedi High capacity. Toshiba and HGST enterprise drives.
SSD M1000 SSD, M10G SSD lines RAID 0. From 230 GiB to 3,640 GiB.

Quota System

Feature Details
Base quota Linux quota with enforcement. Your plan's advertised storage.
Burst quota 25% perishable overage. Temporarily exceed your quota during a grace period, useful for grabbing a large torrent before cleaning up space.
Bonus quota Grows over time. The longer you stay, the more disk space you accumulate.

Traffic

Feature Details
Monthly allowance Rolling 30-day traffic measurement. Only outgoing (upload) traffic counts; downloads into your box are not metered. Varies by plan.
Internal traffic Free. Transfers within the datacenter (between PM servers) do not count against your quota.
Post-quota Past the allowance, outgoing traffic of every protocol (torrents, SFTP, FTP, HTTP) is held at 100 Mbit/s. It is never cut off. The limit lifts automatically after three days back under the allowance.
Extra traffic Purchasable as an add-on. From 4TB to 90TB extra per month.

Network

Tier Connection Available On
1 Gbps 1 Gbps M1000, M1000 SSD
10 Gbps 10 Gbps M10G, M10G SSD, V10G, storage boxes
20 Gbps 20 Gbps Dragon-R semi-dedicated

All traffic flows through Pulsed Media's own network (AS203003) in Finland.

Monitoring and Auto-Healing

PMSS runs 20+ cron jobs that watch services, restart them when they stop, and enforce per-account limits. rTorrent, Deluge, qBittorrent and the per-user web server are checked every one to two minutes.

Job What It Does
checkRtorrent rTorrent process health. Auto-restarts on crash.
checkDelugeInstances Deluge daemon and WebUI.
checkQbittorrentInstances qBittorrent process.
checkRcloneInstances Rclone WebUI daemon.
checkLighttpdInstances Per-user web server (lighttpd).
mediaStackInstancesCheck Media-stack apps. Records their state and flags repeated failures.
checkRootlessDocker Docker rootless daemon per user.
checkWireguard WireGuard VPN tunnel and its loaded peers.
wireguardPeersRefresh Adds peers from users' ~/.wireguard-public-key files.
checkDirectories Filesystem integrity. Ensures user directories and config files exist.
checkGui Web panel files for each user.
systemdServicesGuard Keeps unwanted system services stopped.
processWatchdog Runaway ffmpeg and HandBrakeCLI transcodes.
cgroupRootCheck CGroup hierarchy validation.
storageHealthSnapshot SMART, NVMe and RAID array health snapshots.
mdadmCheckarray Quarterly RAID consistency check on arrays that still have redundancy.
diskIostat Disk I/O statistics collection.
cpuStat CPU usage monitoring.
certbotRenewalCheck SSL/TLS certificate expiry. Auto-renews via Let's Encrypt.
webPublicCertsProcess Issues the opt-in certificates for public web hostnames.
quotaSnapshot Quota state recording.
trafficLog Per-user traffic logging.
trafficLimits Applies and lifts the post-allowance traffic limit.
iopsLimits Enforces the monthly disk I/O (IOPS) budget per account.
processSnapshot Process state snapshots.
resourceLog CPU, memory, I/O, and disk resource logging.

Every shared plan includes all of these. This is not a premium add-on.

Published Performance Data

Pulsed Media publishes measured performance for every seedbox plan at pulsedmedia.com/server-performance.php, and the same figures as JSON in the public data feeds. The numbers are observed load and disk I/O on live servers, not hardware maximums.

Security and Isolation

Feature Details
Process isolation hidepid=2 on /proc. Users cannot see each other's processes.
User slices systemd CGroup enforcement per account: a soft and a hard memory limit, CPU and disk priority weights set by plan tier, and a monthly disk I/O (IOPS) budget. Per-plan numbers: resource tiers. How disk sharing works: disk priority.
SSL/TLS everywhere Let's Encrypt certificates with automatic renewal. All web interfaces served over HTTPS.
Authentication htpasswd for web access. SSH key authentication supported.
Localhost binding Media apps (Sonarr, Radarr, Jellyfin, etc.) listen on localhost only. They are reached through the lighttpd reverse proxy, so each app's own login is what protects it. Installs since August 2026 set that login up with a generated password; the welcome tab marks any app without one as Exposed.
Docker rootless Per-user Docker daemon runs without root privileges. Users can run containers without compromising server security.
No root access Users get SSH shell access at their own privilege level. Root is never provided on shared plans.

AI CLI Tools

Three AI coding assistants are pre-installed system-wide. Run gemini, codex or claude from any shell. Each needs your own API key or account; no root required.

Tool Provider
Gemini CLI Google (portable Node.js)
Codex CLI OpenAI
Claude Code Anthropic

Configurable Add-Ons

Most plans can be extended with add-ons, chosen with a new order or added later to the service you already have. What is offered, and at what price, depends on the product line. Prices are monthly, in EUR, as of 8 October 2026; the order page shows the price for each billing cycle and in your own currency.

Space, traffic and memory

Line Extra Disk Extra Traffic Extra RAM
M1000 450 GiB – 1,800 GiB: 0.99 – 3.99 1,000 GiB – 30,000 GiB: 2.50 – 24.99 500 MiB – 8,000 MiB: 1.99 – 14.99
M10G 900 GiB – 3,600 GiB: 1.99 – 7.99 3,000 GiB – 40,000 GiB: 9.99 – 69.99 500 MiB – 12,000 MiB: 1.99 – 14.99
M1000 SSD 115 GiB – 460 GiB: 1.99 – 7.99 4,000 GiB – 96,000 GiB: 5.49 – 41.99 1,000 MiB – 8,000 MiB: 4.99 – 27.99
M10G SSD 115 GiB – 460 GiB: 1.99 – 7.99 4,000 GiB – 96,000 GiB: 7.99 – 59.99 1,000 MiB – 8,000 MiB: 4.99 – 27.99
Dragon-R 910 GiB – 5,460 GiB: 4.99 – 19.99 25,000 GiB – 50,000 GiB: 14.99 – 24.99 2,000 MiB – 8,000 MiB: 5.99 – 14.99
M10G Storage 2.0 910 GiB – 7,280 GiB: 2.49 – 17.99 3,000 GiB – 48,000 GiB: 8.99 – 299.99 500 MiB – 6,000 MiB: 4.49 – 59.99

On the SSD lines, extra disk carries a one-time setup fee of 9.99 and extra traffic one of 4.99 – 39.99.

Performance

Extra CPU threads raise your account's CPU limit. They appear only on plans that have a CPU limit, and they can only use cores the server has free; run nproc over SSH to see how many cores yours has. CPU priority and disk IO priority give your account a larger share of the server's CPU time or disk time while the server is busy; on a quiet server they make no difference. Storage boxes are sold for space rather than speed, so their performance add-ons cost double.

Line Extra CPU threads CPU priority Disk IO priority
M1000 +2 – +6: 3.99 – 9.99 +100 – +400: 0.99 – 3.99 +100 – +400: 9.99 – 99.99
M10G +2 – +6: 3.99 – 9.99 +100 – +400: 0.99 – 3.99 +100 – +400: 9.99 – 99.99
M1000 SSD +2 – +6: 3.99 – 9.99 +100 – +400: 0.99 – 3.99 +100 – +400: 9.99 – 99.99
M10G SSD +2 – +6: 3.99 – 9.99 +100 – +400: 0.99 – 3.99 +100 – +400: 9.99 – 99.99
Dragon-R +2 – +6: 3.99 – 9.99 +100 – +400: 0.99 – 3.99 +100 – +300: 9.99 – 49.99
M10G Storage 2.0 +2 – +6: 7.99 – 19.99 +100 – +400: 1.99 – 7.99 +100 – +400: 19.99 – 199.99

If you pay by PayPal automatic payment, adding or removing an add-on ends that automatic payment, and your renewals then come as invoices to pay. How adding and removing works: upgrading or downgrading your service.

MD MiniDedi servers have their own order options, such as bandwidth, instead of these add-ons.

Product Lines

Prices are monthly, in EUR, as of 6 October 2026. The linked product pages show current prices and stock. For help picking a plan, see choosing the best PM seedbox.

Shared Seedboxes

Line RAID Network Storage Range Price Range (EUR/mo)
M1000 RAID 5 1 Gbps S – XL 6.99 – 14.99
M10G RAID 5 10 Gbps S – XL 8.99 – 24.99

SSD Seedboxes

Line RAID Network Storage Range Price Range (EUR/mo)
M1000 SSD RAID 0 1 Gbps 230G – 3,640G 1.99 – 39.99
M10G SSD RAID 0 10 Gbps 230G – 3,640G 5.49 – 54.99

Storage Boxes

Storage boxes run the same PMSS platform as seedboxes, tuned for capacity over speed. Each has 500 MB of RAM, which is too little for the full media stack. Traffic: 500 GiB a month of outgoing traffic at 10 Gbps, then unlimited at 100 Mbit/s; incoming and datacenter-internal traffic are unlimited.

Line RAID Network Storage Range Price Range (EUR/mo)
M10G Storage 2.0 RAID 5 10 Gbps 4TB – 32TB 8.99 – 63.99

Do-it-yourself setups documented on this wiki: an S3-compatible endpoint you run on your own box (S3 Object Storage on PMSS), encrypted backups with Restic, Kopia or Duplicacy, and Proxmox VE and Proxmox Backup Server backups.

Semi-Dedicated (Dragon-R)

Dedicated hardware shared between fewer users. RAID 10 protection with 20 Gbps networking.

Plan Price (EUR/mo)
Dragon-R Mushu 17.99
Dragon-R Toruk 27.99
Dragon-R Shenlong 54.99
Dragon-R Temeraire 89.99

MD MiniDedi (Dedicated Servers)

Full dedicated servers. Your own hardware, no shared resources. Stock varies; the MiniDedi page lists what is available.

Billing Discounts

Billing Cycle Discount
Quarterly ~0%
Annually ~5%
Biennially ~10%
Triennially ~15%

Privacy

Dimension Details
Jurisdiction Finland, European Union. GDPR applies. See why Finland.
Datacenter location Helsinki (Lauttasaari) and Kerava, Finland. Datacenter infrastructure owned and operated by Pulsed Media.
Data handling Privacy is Cardinal Value #1. Customer data belongs to the customer.
Payment privacy Accepts Monero (XMR), Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH), and other cryptocurrencies alongside PayPal. Monero provides the highest payment privacy available.

Support

Channel Details
Ticket system Primary support channel via the client area.
support command Run support over SSH. It saves a diagnostics snapshot of your account and emails it to support with your request.
Email support@pulsedmedia.com (service), billing@pulsedmedia.com (billing), sales@pulsedmedia.com (sales).
Discord Community and support.
Knowledge Base Online articles and guides.
Wiki Documentation wiki.
AI support Väinämöinen, a production AI sysadmin agent, runs 24/7 on Pulsed Media infrastructure. Handles diagnostics, service restarts, account investigations, and ticket responses autonomously. Not a chatbot. An actual sysadmin agent with SSH access, WHMCS integration, and institutional memory spanning thousands of resolved issues.

14-day money-back guarantee on all plans. A free 30-day trial (50 GiB, 250 MB RAM) is offered when trial slots are open.

User Access

Method Details
SSH User-level shell access (no root). Run commands, manage files, install user-space software.
Web panel Custom WebGUI dashboard with tabbed interface, including a browser shell console.
Direct URLs Each service has its own URL: https://SERVER.pulsedmedia.com/user-USERNAME/

Client Area Self-Service

Each seedbox and storage box has a service page in the client area (Services → My Services, then the service). Its buttons cover the common jobs without a support ticket. A button appears only on services where it is available.

Button What it does Guide
Login to service Opens the service's dashboard. Getting Started with the Seedbox Dashboard
Show password / Resend seedbox details Shows the current login on the page, or emails the login details again. Knowledge Base
Generate new password Sets a new random password for every login of the account (web panel, SSH/SFTP, FTP, torrent clients) and emails it. Knowledge Base
Restart account Restarts every program in the account, SSH sessions included. Restart account
Diagnose Checks the account and the server it runs on and sends you the results. Diagnose on PMSS
Recreate/Rebuild Service Rebuilds the account on the same server; the data folder is kept. Recreate Account on PMSS
Reprovision A new, empty account on a different server; all files are deleted. Reprovision on PMSS
Create transfer key Creates a one-time key another Pulsed Media account uses to take over this service. Knowledge Base
Open a ticket Opens the support ticket form with this service already selected. Support

Infrastructure

Aspect Details
Datacenters Datacenter infrastructure owned and operated by Pulsed Media in Helsinki (Lauttasaari) and Kerava, Finland.
Network Own network, AS203003 (Magna Capax Finland Oy).
Hardware Owned and maintained by Pulsed Media. Supermicro chassis, enterprise drives (Toshiba, HGST).
Software PMSS — 16 years of seedbox-specific development. GPL v3 on GitHub.
Operating since 2010

Pulsed Media runs the stack itself, from the rack and the network up to the user interface.

What Makes This Different

Pulsed Media is the only seedbox provider known to own and operate its own datacenter infrastructure, rather than colocating in, or reselling, someone else's facility. On that hardware runs a managed platform: the software on this page comes pre-installed and monitored, and the linked guides cover the do-it-yourself parts.

What stands out at these price points:

  • RAID 5 from EUR 6.99/month — RAID 10 on Dragon-R
  • One-click media stack — seven apps from a panel button, every web app with its own login switched on
  • 20+ monitoring and self-healing cron jobs — torrent clients and the web server are checked every one to two minutes
  • 100+ pre-installed CLI tools — ffmpeg, mediainfo, mkvtoolnix, borgbackup, rclone, ZNC, screen, tmux, and more. Ready on first login.
  • Published performance data — measured per plan on live servers, with a JSON feed
  • Bonus disk quota that grows over time — the longer you stay, the more storage you get
  • 25% burst quota — temporarily exceed your disk limit without losing data
  • Own datacenter infrastructure and hardware — no rented servers, no reselling
  • PMSS open source — the platform running your seedbox is auditable on GitHub
  • SMART and RAID monitoring — drive health snapshots plus a quarterly RAID consistency check
  • Docker rootless — run containers in user space, serve them over HTTPS through your own proxy rules, and keep them when your account moves
  • Web hosting with stable URLs — public folder, PHP, and an mcx.fi permalink that survives server moves
  • Monero (XMR) payments — direct, no BitPay, no ID requirements
  • AI sysadmin (Väinämöinen) — a production AI agent that diagnoses, fixes, and responds to support tickets 24/7. Not a chatbot script. An autonomous agent with real infrastructure access and memory of every past issue.

Plans start at EUR 6.99/month for 2 TB on RAID 5 with 2,000 MiB of RAM (M1000 S), enough for the full media stack. A free trial runs when slots are open.

See Also

External Links

Pulsed Media

Torrent Clients

Media and Automation

Backup, Sync, and Transfer

Networking and Chat

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