PulsedMedia Seedbox Overview

[Wilhelm]

http://pulsedmedia.com/1gbps-torrent-seedbox-dragon-2.0.php

Just the 12.99EUR plan - 675GB storage, 7TB bandwidth. BTW, that says quarterly but I just clicked Monthly in WHMCS and the order was provisioned. That have cheaper plans (as low as 4.99EUR) but I figured why not try the speed. This is not a VPS - there's shell access but not root. Some of their other services are VPS-based. I mostly use the rtorrent web client or ssh/sftp/etc.

So what are you getting for that premium price?

someone who sets up the torrent clients, web interface, etc.
someone who configures all the hooks (e.g., drop a .torrent here and it's added, etc.)
someone who tweaks the torrent client for maximum performance
an unspoken promise that you don't have to worry about DMCAs and all that
a setup that is purpose-built for torrenting, as opposed to more general purpose dedis. i.e., they're not going to complain about the disk and network load you're putting on them.
Now, is that really 1gbps speed all the time? I don't know, but here's typical performance. I added a 56GB torrent and it took less than 20 minutes, and never dropped below 80MB/sec.

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They've been at this for a while and their site is well-organized. Their WHMCS is a little customized and they have nice links there to your service, etc. Welcome email was prompt with details...had one support ticket and got a KB link that answered my quesiton. They have a desktop torrent-forwarding client I haven't tried...overall, their solution mix is great for torrenting, but if you're looking for your own private Netflix with indexing, conversion, etc. you probably want a VM- or dedi-based service. RapidSeedbox looked featureful for this, but no idea if they're good or rubbish.

I don't really care about their servers, but /proc/cpuinfo shows they're using 8-core D-1521 @ 2.40GHz with 24GB RAM on Deb 7 on a lighttpd-based stack.

Overall, I'm satisfied, though I'm aware it's a little pricey. I'll probably eventually go back to my old Kimsufish ways but until I get around to it, I'm happy.

For those in similar markets, here is what else I looked at:

RapidSeedbox - that was my #2 choice
Seedboxes.cc and DediSeedbox I also looked at but not deeply
Evoseedboxes seems to be popular but I couldn't find good reviews, and they don't allow public trackers which isn't critical for me but worth considering.
Whatbox.ca was interesting as they're a sort of seedbox CDN.