A Seedbox is a dedicated high speed server used for uploading and downloading torrents online, it is also used for file transfers. One of the main advantage of seedbox is that you can manage your torrents through a browser from anywhere, at any time without the need for any specialized software’s. To add the basic usability seedbox are now bundled with SSH access to facilitate other related activities to ease torrenting such as Media Streaming, Automated downloads, Private VPN, etc.

Benefits of using seedbox:

• You can store all your files securely in a cloud server without overloading your personal desktop or laptop.
• One of most popular benefit of using a storage seedbox is its ‘speed’ and availability. They are typically 10x faster than your home internet.
• The seedboxes are highly secure as they are remotely hosted away from your geographical location, typical outside of your countries jurisdiction enabling privacy for you at all times.
• By using seedbox, you can guarantee that it provides high-end safety and security as Datacentre’s are very secure. They are also hosted in a military grade encrypted systems.

What exactly is BitTorrent/Rtorrent/RuTorrent?

BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing developed by Bram Cohen and BitTorrent, Inc. This enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner. Rtorrent is a text-based BitTorrent client, based on ncurses and the libTorrent libraries from Unix. It is lightweight, highly extensible, fast and reliable is ideal to run remotely, designed to look similar to uTorrent.

ruTorrent is a front-end for the popular BitTorrent client Rtorrent. It is one of the best online seedbox interfaces because it is super light, has a lot of plugins for all your use and it is open-source. The term ‘ruTorrent’ is combination of both Rtorrent and μTorrent. Rtorrent is a text-oriented torrent client built on the Unix lib Torrent libraries whereas ruTorrent is a strong web front-end for the command line based torrent client “Rtorrent”. It helps you to connect, manage, remove torrents to your slot, monitor Rtorrent settings, and do a lot of other things through its plugins. It is a highly powerful torrent application and has rich features.

How to use Torrent?

• For downloading Rtorrent, you can go to https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/ 
• For downloading ruTorrent, you can go to https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent  and access your new torrent client on your server.

At first we can go through the tools box used in ruTorrent.

“Log off” This button is used for log out.

“Globe” This button is for adding torrents.

“Star” button will allow us to create new torrents.

“Delete” button. With this button, we can delete single or multiple torrents.

Start” button role is to start downloading/uploading torrent/torrents.

“Pause” button we can use for pausing torrents.

“Stop” button we can use when we want to stop all activity on a particular torrent.

“RSS feed” button for creating RSS feeds.

“Autodl-irssi” plugin for monitoring our trackers Announce Channel and to automatically start downloads for you based on our filters.

“Plugins” button.

“Settings” button where we can change all of the ruTorrent settings.

“Help” will show us some basic shortcuts.

STEP 1

First login to “Seedbox.CH” using your username and password. Then click to ruTorrent button in this image shown below.

STEP 2

To add a torrent click on the ”GLOBE”  on the top left.

STEP 3

A new popup window will show up like below and just paste the URL that you want to download.

STEP 4

Then press “add URL” button shown below.

STEP 5

At last you can see the downloaded torrent file on your window.

Conclusion

The use of seedbox is maturing as time passes. Along with usability, the popularity due to make it your own ‘Netflix’ aka private stream server is also another factor which drives its market further to the top. At Seedbox.CH is one of the best seedbox, because we offer stable connectivity and security.
We offer a combination of applications for torrenting and streaming which secure your internet operations thus enabling high security privacy for your online activities. As we on network at AS213167 we are able to define the perimeter to further enhance our technical ability to keep intruders at bay.
Whether you are an experienced client or a beginner, you will find it suitable to use our seedbox. For any technical issues you may contact our support. Our team is available 24/7 for any advice and assist you.

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