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What is a TorrentBox?
A Torrent box (also referred to as a seedbox) is a private dedicated server used for the uploading and downloading of digital files.
Torrentboxes generally make use of the BitTorrent protocol for uploading and downloading, although they have also been used on the eDonkey2000 network.
Torrentboxes are usually connected to a high speed network, often with a throughput of 100 Mbit/s or more. Some providers are testing offering 10GBit shared servers, while others are developing other systems that will allow users to scale their needs on the fly.
Files are downloaded from the torrent site and its users, and from there they can be downloaded at high speeds to a user's personal computer via the HTTP, FTP, SFTP, or rsync protocols. This allows for anonymity as well as usually not worrying about ratio.
Torrentboxes can run on most major operating systems (Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X).
More expensive torrentboxes may provide VNC connection, or remote desktop protocol on some Windows-based torrentboxes, allowing many popular clients to be run remotely.
Other torrentboxes are special purpose and run a variety of torrent specific software including web interfaces of popular clients like Transmission, rTorrent and μTorrent, as well as the TorrentFlux web interface clients. ruTorrent is fast becoming the standard web client for rTorrent, duplicating all the look and being far superior to μTorrent's built in web gui.
Torrentboxes on high speed networks are typically able to download large files within minutes, provided that the swarm can actually handle such a high upload bandwidth.
Torrentboxes generally have download and upload speeds of 100 megabits per second. This means that a 1 GB file can finish downloading in under 2 minutes. That same 1 gigabyte file can be uploaded to other users in the same amount of time, creating a 1:1 upload:download ratio for that individual file.
The ability of a torrentbox to transfer files so quickly is a big attraction torrentboxes hold within the P2P and BitTorrent communities.
Because of the mentioned high speeds, torrentboxes tend to be extremely popular inside private torrent trackers, where maintaining an upload/download ratio above 1 can be very important, although this is frustrating to other users who do not have access to these types of resources and therefore struggle to maintain a good ratio.
Due to high bandwidth demands for such uses, many server and hosting providers choose to disallow torrents. Unfortunately for torrentbox users all over the world, OVH (the number 1 provider of torrentbox hosting), recently started enforcing their bandwidth shaping, resulting in many unhappy customers.
FeralHosting was the first to adapt by implementing shaping and a specified quota, while Customtorrentbox has sourced new providers that will allow for unlimited bandwidth usage. Xirvik is continuing to offer OVH service and keeping the shaping in the fine print, while SuperSeedbox uses FDC and is therefore unlimited for real.
