Seedbox

What is a Seedbox?

No, we do not mean flower boxes here.

A seedbox is a remote server specifically designed for secure, anonymous, and fast uploading and downloading of torrents at high speeds. Seedboxes are typically used to enhance privacy, bypass bandwidth throttling, and improve the overall torrenting experience. Seedboxes are also commonly used for streaming, backups, IRC, Usenet and not just for BitTorrent. Pulsed Media offers BitTorrent seedboxes. A seedbox would allow you to start torrenting without VPN if you are worried about privacy and anonymity.

How Does a Seedbox Work?

When a user downloads a torrent file or magnet link from a torrent search engine (or any other source), they can load it onto their seedbox. The seedbox downloads the file at high speed, and the user can then transfer the file to their local device via a secure connection, such as SFTP or HTTPS.

Torrent Downloads

Torrent downloads work on a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing protocol, BitTorrent, where users share small pieces of a file with each other. The torrent client on the seedbox communicates with other peers to download and upload the pieces of the torrent file.

Magnet Links and Magnet to Torrent Conversion

Magnet links are an alternative to torrent files, containing the necessary information to download the torrent file itself via the BitTorrent protocol. When a magnet link is loaded into the seedbox's torrent software, the software converts the magnet link to a torrent file and begins downloading the content. If you need to save the actual torrent file you can do so after the torrent client has downloaded the torrent file itself.

Types of Seedboxes

Shared Seedboxes

Shared seedboxes are bigger seedbox servers split and shared among a number of users. They are cost-effective and sufficient for most typical torrenting use cases.

Dedicated Seedboxes

Dedicated server dedicated solely as a seedbox for single user. A high end, very high performance option.

VPS Seedboxes

A Virtual Private Server (VPS) seedbox is a virtualized environment on a shared physical server. VPS seedboxes offer more control than shared setups and more affordability than dedicated options, representing a middle ground in terms of performance and cost.

Advantages of Using a Seedbox

High-speed transfers: Downloads and uploads at gigabit speeds.
Improved privacy: Hides home IP address from public swarms.
Bypass throttling: Avoids ISP torrent traffic restrictions.
Improved ratio: Easily maintain upload ratios on private trackers.
Always-on seeding: 24/7 availability without keeping a home computer online.
Bandwidth management: Keeps home internet free for other activities.

Pulsed Media Seedbox Standard Features

All Pulsed Media Seedboxes comes with a standard set of features. Same user interface and same BitTorrent software is used for all seedbox servers.

Public trackers are ALLOWED
Servers located in our datacenter in Helsinki, Finland
HDD Quota is 25% burstable for upto 7days.
Nice Master GUI with ruTorrent, Deluge, qBittorrent, File manager, rclone webui, Quota info etc.
Docker for things like Wireguard, Nextcloud, Proxmox backup server etc.
SSH + SFTP + SCP + FTP access.
*ARR and Jellyfin can be installed
Typical server side media tools such as ffmpeg and a lot of others

Pulsed Media Seedbox services

Legal Considerations

While seedboxes improve privacy and security, they do not legalize the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted material. Users are responsible for ensuring their torrent activity complies with local and international laws.