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This seems like a slightly worse seedbox marketed towards people who haven't heard of seedboxes.



Or for people who aren't interested in managing their own box, building / installing / maintaining the control software, etc.

Just the same way Dropbox is for people who haven't heard of NASs or Amazon S3.


You just described a VPS, not a seedbox. Seedboxes are turn-key operations, login and link/upload torrent file: tada.


My bad. Having never heard of a seedbox before, I googled it and was under the impression that it just meant "machine used for torrenting" e.g. a vps or a local server.


There are seedbox providers which require very little knowledge or effort.


Took me 3 minutes to get put.io working.

Name one seedbox provider that can be set up that quickly.


I'm an IT RETARD - I have no shame about that. At best I know about sudo apt-get install - but seedbox configurations on most providers is click next next next.

They even have 1 click installers, it's really simple.


That's very true, but I'm always apprehensive about stuff like that, given how dangerous a default config can be to my wallet. Specifically, if bandwidth isn't properly capped, or metered, I'd be shelling out more money than I'm saving by (hypothetically - calm down RIAA) pirating content!


Whatbox is pretty nice, and also user friendly. Feral used to be nice but it was never user friendly. Also, Feral's support is absolute shit. They were down for basically an entire month and barely communicated with their customers. Seedboxes.cc is also nice and somewhat user-friendly.


Most of them. You pay and are chucked straight into a client web UI usually.



Feral Hosting


If you can use a ssh client:

1. go to your VPS control panel, span another vm

2. ssh to it

3. aptitude install transmission

done.

You don't even have to manage that box. not even install security updates if you don't want to.


If the answer to the question "Is there already an easy way to do this desirable action?" starts with:

If you can use a ssh client:

Then someone will probably make a billion dollar company understanding why that's an out of touch response.


Wake up 3 days later, notice $500 bill for bandwidth.

But hey, super easy!

Also, rtorrent. Geez, guy! :-P


Ah yeah, i'm still holding up to my x-small linode without metered, it works fine for that with the ocasional torrent i have to seed. But you are right, when everyone moves to metered, this will not be that good.


seedbox.cc


"Critical Error Could not connect to the database"


HN crowd?


i'll leave this here: what box


That seems like a condescending opinion from someone who hasn't had experience with Put.io. I've tried both Put.io and several seedbox providers, and found that Put.io is better for my purposes, and I expect the purposes of many users.

A seedbox would be better if: * You're active on private trackers. Most private trackers don't work well with services like put.io. * You enjoy the level of control that's available with a seedbox.

Put.io is (in my opinion) much better if your goal is quickly and painlessly getting multimedia files from public torrent sites. It has some neat features like Mp4 video conversion to stream/download to iDecvices that would be challenging to implement in a seedbox, and instantly completes downloads that other Put.io users have in their files. Something that would be impossible on any seedbox.

Now that their lowest plan is $10/mo, there isn't as much of a cost advantage for put.io as there used to be when they had $5/mo plans, but even at cost parity, I'd still pick put.io over any of the seedbox services I've used, or setting up my own seedbox on a VPS.


put.io does have some interesting features in my opinion. One of them being that it will convert any video to mp4 which I can then stream directly to my Apple TV.

They also allow for external subtitle tracks to be added and again, it works with the Apple TV (something that other alternatives were never able to do).

Also, judging by the percentage of torrents I add on put.io that are instantly completed, I guess they have a sizeable user-base... That wasn't always the case with the seedboxes I've tried before (I'd say more than 90% of the torrents I add on put.io are completed, converted, and instantly streamable to the Apple TV)


How do you stream to an Apple TV? Are you just AirPlay mirroring from you laptop's browser?


If you use Plex (and you really should:)

https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect

PlexConnect is a simple DNS server that rewrites requests to trailers.apple.com to your local machine (where a daemon is running that responds to requests from your Apple TV.) It then takes the place of the "Trailers" app, and requires only that you change your AppleTV DNS server config to your own machine, and that you install their SSL certificate in your AppleTV's certificate store.

You can edit your AppleTV's certificate store with an Apple-developed program called Apple Configurator (in the OSX App Store for free) so at least it doesn't requires anything like jailbreaking.


Uh, holy crap??? That's amazing. I hadn't even thought of trying something like that. That's brilliant and ingenious. At this point I'd just resigned myself to transcoding where needed (usually just need to change the container, which takes one ffmpeg command, and about 2 minutes for a one hour video) and let iTunes handle everything, but I have a major soft spot for Plex and miss using it. That's just phenomenal. gushing.stop();


Another interesting option is Beamer[1]. Bought it a while ago and I have nothing but good things to say about it... Just drag any video on it and stream it to your AppleTV in seconds.

[1] http://beamer-app.com/


I just visit put.io from my iPhone or iPad and from there I stream the video and send it to the Apple TV via Airplay. There's also a couple of free 3rd party native iOS apps that let you connect to your put.io account, and stream the videos, but they're not really necessary. Never had much luck with AirPlay mirroring with my Macbook Air, it's always laggy in my experience.

So yeah, you do need either an iPad or iPhone to do it, however Put.io has a Roku app if you have one of these.


Through iTunes or I use an app called Beamer which lets you beam any kind of video file super easily.


They make a RSS feed of your content that you can subscribe like a podcast


What kinds of "Videos" are we talking about here?

Is it ok to download these """Videos""" there? Because it doesn't look like it is.


What do you mean by """""Videos"""""?


I'm picturing some manic air-quoting here.


Using all five fingers!




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