Cheap seedbox?

ItsAsylum

I'm looking for a cheap seedbox. I've never used one before so any experience stories would also be handy. What have you guys used that's been valuable enough to pay per month for?

acidpuke

If this is your first time using a seedbox I would recommend a provider that specializes in it. I have had good success with PulsedMedia. They have some Holiday specials going right now.

https://pulsedmedia.com/specials.php

If you feeling froggy and want to create your own seedbox there is an excellent script from Rtinst

https://github.com/arakasi72/rtinst

Either way they both can work great when you seed Linux ISO's

chocolateshirt

You are posting on wrong forum.. but yeah maybe @PulsedMedia could help.

Kiwi83

ultraseedbox have some cheap plans under 10usd

ItsAsylum

@chocolateshirt said:
You are posting on wrong forum.. but yeah maybe @PulsedMedia could help.

Shall you point me in the direction of the right forum?

ricannardo

@ItsAsylum said:

@chocolateshirt said:
You are posting on wrong forum.. but yeah maybe @PulsedMedia could help.

Shall you point me in the direction of the right forum?

https://www.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/

marvel

Try our media server plan: https://billing.novos.be/cart.php?a=add&pid=42

Then use something like this: https://github.com/xombiemp/ultimate-torrent-setup/wiki

Or any other of the 93712 guides to set one up

wii747

have a look at https://theworldservers.com they allow seedbox on all packages

definitelyliam

@wii747 said:
have a look at https://theworldservers.com they allow seedbox on all packages

From their TOS:

The Customer is not allowed to create any additional user accounts within their VPS operating system. If a server is found with 1 or more accounts or the administrator account has been deleted or the password has been changed a £10 charge will be applied to reactivate your server.

What a weird limitation.

wii747

@definitelyliam said:

@wii747 said:
have a look at https://theworldservers.com they allow seedbox on all packages

From their TOS:

The Customer is not allowed to create any additional user accounts within their VPS operating system. If a server is found with 1 or more accounts or the administrator account has been deleted or the password has been changed a £10 charge will be applied to reactivate your server.

What a weird limitation.

That does not affect me as I only have one user on the dedicated server I have with them.

Erisa

@wii747 said:

@definitelyliam said:

@wii747 said:
have a look at https://theworldservers.com they allow seedbox on all packages

From their TOS:

The Customer is not allowed to create any additional user accounts within their VPS operating system. If a server is found with 1 or more accounts or the administrator account has been deleted or the password has been changed a £10 charge will be applied to reactivate your server.

What a weird limitation.

That does not affect me as I only have one user on the dedicated server I have with them.

It only applies to VPS and I don't believe the comment was aimed at you, just an observation about a strange policy.

sanvit

@definitelyliam said:

@wii747 said:
have a look at https://theworldservers.com they allow seedbox on all packages

From their TOS:

The Customer is not allowed to create any additional user accounts within their VPS operating system. If a server is found with 1 or more accounts or the administrator account has been deleted or the password has been changed a £10 charge will be applied to reactivate your server.

What a weird limitation.

Isn't it recommended to create a non-privileged account, and lock down root access to the server for security reasons?

wii747

@sanvit said:

@definitelyliam said:

@wii747 said:
have a look at https://theworldservers.com they allow seedbox on all packages

From their TOS:

The Customer is not allowed to create any additional user accounts within their VPS operating system. If a server is found with 1 or more accounts or the administrator account has been deleted or the password has been changed a £10 charge will be applied to reactivate your server.

What a weird limitation.

Isn't it recommended to create a non-privileged account, and lock down root access to the server for security reasons?

yes that’s very true, let me open a ticket with them and clarify with them

wii747

The company replied as said this is not the case and you can create additional users, And they have removed it from the terms page

letrocks

Why not build one yourself? It is not hard to do so. Need a VPS with whatever disk you want and then install Deluged, Deluge-web, SSH. Secure all ports and you are in business.
I have done it many times over on different locations and all work flowlessly. If you want another layer of protection then buy service from VPN provider. Install the VPN client on the VPS and now traffic is routed via VPN. Also you can use the SOCKS proxy end points directly in the deluge that VPS providers offer.

ericls

@letrocks said:
Why not build one yourself? It is not hard to do so. Need a VPS with whatever disk you want and then install Deluged, Deluge-web, SSH. Secure all ports and you are in business.
I have done it many times over on different locations and all work flowlessly. If you want another layer of protection then buy service from VPN provider. Install the VPN client on the VPS and now traffic is routed via VPN. Also you can use the SOCKS proxy end points directly in the deluge that VPS providers offer.

You need clean/residential IP that's not blacklisted by your private tracker.

letrocks

@ericls said:
You need clean/residential IP that's not blacklisted by your private tracker.

That is the different problem related to Tracker not the technology. OP didn't mention anything about the IP restriction.

raindog308

@letrocks said: That is the different problem related to Tracker not the technology. OP didn't mention anything about the IP restriction.

Yes, but OP wants a seedbox and it's a fair consideration.

However, some trackers have you register the IP so that sort of moots that point...depends on which trackers you use.

I have used both UltraSeedbox and PulsedMedia and both are good. US had a spectacular outage last year but they credited accounts, etc.

forces

get oracle free tier
better than cheap, its free

ravenchad

@forces said:
get oracle free tier
better than cheap, its free

as seedbox?

raindog308

@forces said:
get oracle free tier better than cheap, its free

Try to run a seedbox on Oracle Cloud and you'll be...

Moofie

I use Swizzin on a HostSolutions VPS from Norway. very cheap

TimboJones

@Moofie said:
I use Swizzin on a HostSolutions VPS from Norway. very cheap

@definitelyliam said:

@wii747 said:
have a look at https://theworldservers.com they allow seedbox on all packages

From their TOS:

The Customer is not allowed to create any additional user accounts within their VPS operating system. If a server is found with 1 or more accounts or the administrator account has been deleted or the password has been changed a £10 charge will be applied to reactivate your server.

What a weird limitation.

That was probably meant for managed service where provider needed a login and doesn't want you adding services or users who would fuck managed services up.

TimboJones

@raindog308 said:

@forces said:
get oracle free tier better than cheap, its free

Try to run a seedbox on Oracle Cloud and you'll be...

Run it with SOCKS5 or VPN.

creep

@TimboJones said:

@raindog308 said:

@forces said:
get oracle free tier better than cheap, its free

Try to run a seedbox on Oracle Cloud and you'll be...

Run it with SOCKS5 or VPN.

you're right. Oracle is just a 5 year old kid.

forces

funny, i had it running for almost 6 months
and oracle called me personally for advices on improvement
never had any issue and even the premium instance had not been claimed, almost 4 months lapsed
and i run xmrig on that instance
dont comment without actually experience or your account simply too dodgy and oracle had shut it down
you think oracle is some deadpool host?