The service has noticeably worsened in the past few weeks. Support, instead of solving the problem, blames the user. Besides the terrible speeds, the service crashes all the time. Don’t throw your money away on this service.
Hey guys, I’m looking at the current seedbox market and it feels like everyone is offering the same stuff. I want to know what actually makes you pick one provider over another
Is it the pre-configured stack (like a 1-click qBittorrent + Jellyfin setup)? Or is an integrated search service (Jackett/Prowlarr) ready to go with your credentials a dealbreaker?
More importantly, where do you stand on the Storage vs. Bandwidth trade-off?
Curious to hear what your "perfect" box looks like
Many of you have probably read about CopyFail CVE-2026-31431 a 0-day exploit that allows pretty much anyone to get root on a Linux system (including SE Linux).
Patches now exist for most major distros, but there is a problem, there appears to be a concerted effort to prevent those updates from getting out - many of the repos responsible for holding the updates are being actively DDOS'd, in particular all of Canonical (Ubuntu, et al) has been unavailable.
AI discovered, it has been in the wild since 2017, it went public April 29th. For technical details, see the Xint Page
This is a scary one, first there is no way to tell if the exploit has been used, and could easily be used for a split second to insert malware that would allow access to host after patching. Shared hosting, dedis, containers, and VPS are all vulnerable. Your homelab is likely safe behind a NAT, but most everyone else needs to update ASAP.
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https://fossforce.com/2026/05/is-it-panic-time-linuxs-big-bad-copy-fail-security-exploit/
Mitigation without a patch: https://github.com/rootsecdev/cve_2026_31431#mitigation
I have been a long time customer and recently things have gone from good to incredible,
They are now giving users docker access which allows us to install our own apps
And also they are adding new apps every week
So I would highly recommend them
I got tired of manually searching torrent sites every time I added a movie to my Letterboxd watchlist, so I built a small Go daemon called CinePilot to automate the whole process.
What it does
- Polls my public Letterboxd watchlist every 30 minutes
- Detects newly added movies
- Searches trackers through Jackett
- Filters releases by quality + seeders
- Sends the best magnet directly to qBittorrent
- Automatically removes movies 14 days after I mark them as watched on Letterboxd
The main goal was to make something lightweight for normal laptops, not a full NAS/server setup like Radarr.
Features
- Written in Go
- Runs quietly in the background
- Battery/storage aware
- Pauses if disk space gets too low
- Docker Compose setup
- CLI with live qBittorrent progress tracking
Would appreciate feedback, feature ideas, or suggestions
github link: https://github.com/faizanfirdousi/CinePilot
Following up last weeks "Copy Fail" local privilege escalation, this time we got "Dirty Frag", essentially the same thing security wise.
This got me wondering about shared hosting as many seedboxes offer SSH access. I would assume the decent hosting providers use services like TuxCare or similar to live patch their systems as soon as a fix is available, but especially with this last one TuxCare likely didn't have a fix ready when the vulnerability was disclosed (embargo was broken early to inform the public as other actors also found the vulnerability before coordinated closure would have taken place).
This essentially means that anyone quick enough and with SSH access - assuming the seedbox providers use a somewhat typical / distro-provided kernel - would be able to elevate their shell to root and compromise the system.
Has anyone been informed by their provider about restricted SSH access, maybe even security-related downtime of the entire system or automatic migration to a fresh system as a result? In my view, this would be necessary as you likely otherwise couldn't be certain that no customer acting in bad faith has compromised the host system.
Please limit seedbox recommendation requests to top level comments in this megathread, unless you meet one of the exceptions, which are defined here.
Please use the recommendation form for your request:
1) Are you OK with direct message offers from vendors?
NO (the default status is OPT OUT. Unless the user changes this to YES assume NO)
2) What are your main reasons for wanting a seedbox?
Answer here...
3) Are you okay with sharing hardware resources with other users [shared] or do you need the seedbox hardware dedicated to just you [dedicated]?
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4) Do you want someone else to be responsible for maintaining the seedbox software (operating system, applications) [managed] or do you want to do it all yourself [unmanaged]?
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5) Please describe your seedbox experience. (You may wish to list any seedbox providers you've been with before.)
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6) Please describe your experience with Linux. (Most seedboxes run Linux and some knowledge of it may be helpful.)
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7) What is the high end of your budget? (Please give a specific amount and a currency. "Cheap" might mean something different to one person than it does to another.)
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8) Do you have preferences or requirements concerning payment? (Paypal, Bitcoin, etc.)
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9) Do you plan to use public trackers?
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10) What kind of connection speed do you need? (Common answers would be 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 2Gbps, 10Gbps.)
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11) How much combined upload and download traffic do you expect each month? Include download of files from the seedbox to your local computer. If you don't know, tell us what upload amount per month would realistically make you very happy with your seedbox.
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12) What is the minimum disk space you need?
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13) Do you require a specific type of mass storage? (HDD, SSD, NVMe SSD) If other than HDD, please explain why you think you need this.
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14) Do you require a specific torrent client?
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15) Do you require any other applications on the seedbox? (e.g. Plex, Subsonic, Radarr)
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16) Do you require SSH access to the command line?
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17) Do you require access to a remote desktop?
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18) Do you require admin level (i.e. 'root') access? If yes, please explain why.
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19) Do you have any other specific requirements?
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20) Is there any other information you think might help in getting a useful recommendation?
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Note: You may make a standalone request post if you don't get a response 48 hours after commenting in this thread, but we request that you notify the mods first so it isn't removed by mistake.
Going forward, I've set up recurring posts so the megathread will be automatically unstickied and replaced by a new thread Thursday Night/Friday morning every week. Hopefully the added visibility will allow for more responses to comments.
Hi!
Based on the budget, I fall into the exception category, so here is my post:
1) Are you OK with direct message offers from vendors?
YES
2) What are your main reasons for wanting a seedbox?
Ratio upkeep, archiving, media hoarding
3) Are you okay with sharing hardware resources with other users [shared] or do you need the seedbox hardware dedicated to just you [dedicated]?
Dedicated is a must.
4) Do you want someone else to be responsible for maintaining the seedbox software (operating system, applications) [managed] or do you want to do it all yourself [unmanaged]?
Managed
5) Please describe your seedbox experience. (You may wish to list any seedbox providers you've been with before.)
I have used multiple, about 4-5 years of experience.
6) Please describe your experience with Linux. (Most seedboxes run Linux and some knowledge of it may be helpful.)
Average, but do need support from time to time.
7) What is the high end of your budget? (Please give a specific amount and a currency. "Cheap" might mean something different to one person than it does to another.)
750 EUR/mo, ideally with quarterly/annual payment cycles available.
8) Do you have preferences or requirements concerning payment? (Paypal, Bitcoin, etc.)
CC on file/PayPal
9) Do you plan to use public trackers?
Minimal public use.
10) What kind of connection speed do you need? (Common answers would be 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 2Gbps, 10Gbps.)
10 Gbps
11) How much combined upload and download traffic do you expect each month? Include download of files from the seedbox to your local computer. If you don't know, tell us what upload amount per month would realistically make you very happy with your seedbox.
25-50TB
12) What is the minimum disk space you need?
300TB scalable as I grow, ideally would like to start at 400-500TB
13) Do you require a specific type of mass storage? (HDD, SSD, NVMe SSD) If other than HDD, please explain why you think you need this.
HDD for pure storage in RAID6 with NVMes as metadata storage because of IO and OS.
14) Do you require a specific torrent client?
QBittorrent and Rtorrent
15) Do you require any other applications on the seedbox? (e.g. Plex, Subsonic, Radarr)
Nice to have, but not necessary.
16) Do you require SSH access to the command line?
Yes.
17) Do you require access to a remote desktop?
No.
18) Do you require admin level (i.e. 'root') access? If yes, please explain why.
Yes, so I can check statistics and troubleshoot basic issues myself.
19) Do you have any other specific requirements?
Good peering within EU, support.
20) Is there any other information you think might help in getting a useful recommendation?
No, but ask away.
Just got a seedbox… ( newbie) now trying to figure out what’s next.. think I need rutorrent.. I downloaded it from GitHub… now I’m stuck.. not sure what to do next… any help is appreciated.. Tia
This is the first time I’m posting about a tool I built called Pullr and this is not a launch or promotion post because we are still in beta.
I’m mainly looking for honest feedback from people who actually use cloud download tools.
Current features:
I’m giving free access to a limited number of early users in exchange for feedback.
If you are interested, please check out the website and try it out.
Hey all, I've recently gotten into this and it's amazing already, it's one of those things I wish I've known about sooner.
I just got a whatbox and joined a private tracker, and I still have a bunch of content I got from public tracker sites that I want to share via seedbox Plex.
Would it be a problem to ftp the public tracker files to the seedbox so the Plex can stream it? I'm not uploading any torrent files, just the content files. It's all movies and shows I got previously from public tracker sites before I went seedbox and private tracker.
Thanks!