Seedboxes, Buffering, and Seeding

**Admin** Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:25 am

What is a Seedbox and what do the specs mean?

A seedbox is a dedicated server with a high upload and download. Most have 10 Mb/s or 100Mb/s upload and download.

10 Mb/s = 1.25 MB/s --- 75 MB per minute --- 4.5 GB per hour
100 Mb/s = 12.5 MB/s --- 750 MB per minute --- 45 GB per hour

Bandwidth is different with every host. Some offer Unlimited and some offer 1, 2, 3 TB per month. Depending on your monthly cap it may be more beneficial to get a 10 Mb/s connection. A 100 Mb/s connection will tear through a 1 TB cap in no time at all and your just wasting money by paying a host for the 100 Mb/s line.

In a perfect world you would get a 100 MB/s line with 100+ GB storage and unlimited bandwidth. That will run you about $200+ per month from what i have found at decent hosting services (you find different let me know)

How to buffer an account and seed properly

A lot of people waste bandwidth on servers improperly seeding and trying to buffer accounts.

First off you have to unserstand at least a little how bittorrent works as far as seeders and leechers go. If you have a torrent that has a lot of seeders and no leechers then it wont seed very well. A torrent that is new and only ends up getting 2 - 5 leechers isn't going to get you very far. Keep in mind you are also fighting with other seeders on torrents. If you have 3 seeders and they are closer routing wise to the leecher then they will eat up all of the users bandwidth leaving you with little to no upload.

You want hot torrents with lots of leechers and you want to get on them early. This requires that you know the tracker a little. Knowing what shows, movies, albums, people download.

What should you bother putting on the Seedbox?
-New hot TV shows, Movies, larger Applications. These will download and upload very quickly. A 4 GB file seeded back to 3:1 will net you 12 GB upload
-Torrents with 1 seeder and like 10 + leechers is a pretty good bet.

What NOT to bother uploading to the server?
-Music in all forms is pretty much useless. 20 MB album does nothing for you. Just load it on your client at home.
-Old torrents of any sort. They will just eat up bandwidth and sit on your server for a long time
-New unknown torrents that have 1 or 2 seeders.

Basically you take a site and select a few regular torrents at a time, remove them after they hit like 3:1 or so, and then move on to another few.

HD rips of TV shows are always good. New rips of video games. Hit movies. Figure out when they are supposed to hit and catch them early.