Seedhost.eu Seedbox Review - June 2018

skarz

The decision to purchase a seedbox can be based on a variety of reasons which are all heavily dependent on the user. For me I wanted a provider that was reliable, had good support, and respected my privacy as a customer. While doing research, one name kept coming up: Seedhost. I decided to give them a shot in November of 2016 and I haven't switched away since.

(Proof you can see I've been a customer quite some time)

Since that time, the majority of my seeding and leeching as been on private trackers, but I have seeded and leeched a significant amount on public trackers. I can't say if it's pure luck, but I have never received a DMCA notice or warning.

Here's some examples of speeds: Downloading at 1.1Gbps!

Uploading at 92Mb/s!

As you can see the monthly traffic and hdd space are VERY generous.

In addition to ruTorrent they have a wide variety of add-ons such as Plex which I use to stream my media to my home devices via Roku. Anyways if you're looking for a reliable, affordable seedbox with lots of add-ons then I recommend you check out Seedhost!

[email protected]:~$ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py | python -

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V. (37.48.111.237)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Tilaa B.V. (Amsterdam) [1.75 km]: 2.302 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 3018.86 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 683.94 Mbit/s

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I liked their performance too, and it was a lot of storage for the price.

Ultimately, I switched back to something US-based after being with seedhost, both because I wanted the control of a dedi again and because Plex performance was spotty to the Midwest US at times, but ultimately it is one of the better rented seedboxes I've had in terms of space/features/performance for the price

mrlongshen

@skarz where do you think their server located and whose their provider?

FoxelVox

@mrlongshen said:
@skarz where do you think their server located and whose their provider?

Testing from LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V. (37.48.111.**7)

texteditor

I don't think anything they have isn't leaseweb

mrlongshen

@FoxelVox said:

@mrlongshen said:
@skarz where do you think their server located and whose their provider?

Testing from LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V. (37.48.111.**7)

Ok thanks. Leaseweb is expensive huhu

corbpie

How much did you get paid to write this?

Yura

Obvious shill is obvious.

skarz

@corbpie said:
How much did you get paid to write this?

Unfortunately nothing.

@Yura said:
Obvious shill is obvious.

I'm a shill just because I've been a happy customer for two years? Where's the tin foil hat emoji...

skarz

nench.sh benchmark output:

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 nench.sh v2018.04.14 -- https://git.io/nench.sh
 benchmark timestamp:    2018-07-18 04:12:43 UTC
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Processor:    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2683 v4 @ 2.10GHz
CPU cores:    64
Frequency:    2100.173 MHz
RAM:          188G
Swap:         -
Kernel:       Linux 3.13.0-132-generic x86_64

Disks:
sda    5.5T  HDD

CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
    3.868 seconds
CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
    6.780 seconds
CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
    1.817 seconds

ioping: seek rate
    min/avg/max/mdev = 47.4 us / 108.7 us / 47.2 ms / 699.2 us
ioping: sequential read speed
    generated 3.32 k requests in 5.00 s, 830.2 MiB, 663 iops, 165.9 MiB/s

dd: sequential write speed
    1st run:    144.00 MiB/s
    2nd run:    118.26 MiB/s
    3rd run:    153.54 MiB/s
    average:    138.60 MiB/s

IPv4 speedtests
    your IPv4:    37.48.111.xxxx

    Cachefly CDN:         241.85 MiB/s
    Leaseweb (NL):        151.90 MiB/s
    Softlayer DAL (US):   3.19 MiB/s
    Online.net (FR):      77.47 MiB/s
    OVH BHS (CA):         14.77 MiB/s

No IPv6 connectivity detected
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JerryHou

Years back, I have used WhatBox, FeralHosting, and BytesizedHosting for seedbox to maximize upload and download, super speed and unlimited bandwidth were key figures...

Nowadays, I just use those sites with bonus points system or ratioless. So my requirement now to a seedbox becomes merely "seeding": a big storage, "ok" bandwidth, speed is not so important anymore...

mrlongshen

@skarz any review about dedicated server?