Originally Posted by karlo

I was just wondering why majority of the seedbox(es) providers, most of them wants private trackers instead of public trackers? The concept of P2P or torrents is to share files so that everyone will benefit from one another right?

What SeedBytes said. Also because too many DMCA notices and similar are bad for business. Even though some have a reputation for being a piracy backbone, *cough*OVH*cough*, not becoming a target of big media is a good idea for them.

Btw, I purchased a temporary seedbox so that I'll know the feeling of having one. It's the cheapest that I could find. Yes, I was able to get my seedbox in less than 3 hours will lots of opened tickets. But still, I don't have FTP and HTTP access. Guess what? I signed up for the cheapest one month plan of 100tbh. I know I read a lot of negative reviews but still I am curious.

If you have ssh access, you have sftp access. Just use a client that speaks sftp. But no HTTP access, really? How do you even administer your box?

But most of the time, only public trackers gets the upload from my seedbox. I deleted the public trackers. For the files under my private trackers, nothing is actually uploaded. Wow.

There are a LOT more users on public trackers; some, err, gifted individual once managed to up a torrent to a private site with openbittorrent in the tracker list. It had 90+ ratio (>1.2 terabyte upload) in less than 12 hours (before I noticed what was up).
On the other hand, the number of leechers on private trackers is pretty small. There are sites where the maximum number of leechers on a single torrent tends to be 2 or 3. So you'll want to grab the very latest torrents first to build ratio (because those will have a few leechers you can upload to).

Oh yeah, can you do VNC with a seedbox? So what's the difference of having a seedbox and having a VPS?

Sure, if it's installed & running. But it's usually not offered because it's useless (seedboxes are usually never Windows based and don't have graphics servers running...because it's not useful).
A seedbox is one way to use a server of any kind (VPS or dedicated...never seen cloud seedboxes). A VPS is a virtual server running on real hardware (you typically have 2-16 VPS on one physical server).