Hope you'll enjoy reading this review at least half as much as I currently enjoy being their customer
Plans:
SeedBoxes.cc now offers two plan routes:
NEW, Metered monthly data-cap, which sits on very capable hardware:
10/10Gbit link (not a type-o),
Dual Intel Xeon E5630's (2 x 4 x 2.53GHz physical cores+ 2 x 4 @ 2.53GHz HyperThreading),
48GB RAM,
3TB disks (non-RAID).
Unmetered (don't know its exact hardware specs).
NEW, Metered
Unmetered
You can pay either month-by-month or up front. Those who subscribe to several months (up to a full 1 year) in advance would be treated to some nice bonuses, such as:
Up to 10% discount on the overall amount.
Up to 2 Additional Tera Bytes to your monthly transfer cap.
Every SeedBox also comes with the following pre-installed:
All current major Linux torrent clients: Deluge, r/ruTorrent and Transmission,
irssi (you can then install autodl-irssi on top of it).
Some more information regarding the metered-plans:
Once you've maxed out your monthly data-cap, you'll still be able to transfer content to your SeedBox at your current plan's max speed.
However, content transferred from your SeedBox will be limited to 7-10Mbps.
From what I've been told by staff, plans are currently being made to introduce in the coming weeks a way for all metered-plan members to purchase additional monthly Tera Bytes of bandwidth, should they max out their monthly data-cap.
Hosted on OVH France.
Speed:
I'm currently leasing the Vampire Box.
At 10Gbit/1Gbit, it all boils down to disk I/Os, and SeedBoxes.cc's new metered plans leave little room left to be desired.
Simply put, the speeds you'll be getting, provided you and those sharing the specific physical disk with you
Aren't over-taxing your slice's hard-drive,
Managed to catch the swarm early,
...are amazing:
Though my Torrent client of choice is Deluge (thin-client mode), I've also tried out ruTorrent with around 115 active torrents (out of which Roughly 25 were actually seeding) - and the interface was very responsive.
Support:
SeedBoxes.cc's support is currently ticket-system/Email only, and yet, the average ticket turn-around time during normal business hours (GMT +02:00) can usually be less than 10 minutes, and no more than 3 hours!
Responses are always thorough, courteous and leave absolutely 0 guess work on your part!
To top it all off, a new, slick support section covering many FAQs previously featured in their Wiki is also being finalized:
Website:
SeedBoxes.cc's Website has been put through a MAJOR overhaul during the past few days, and now includes a new Client Area which enables you to control all basic and intermediate aspects of your SeedBox:
To sum it all up:
During the past 2 months I've been testing 2 other SeedBox providers, with plans ranging between 300Mbps and 1Gbit (Leaseweb network).
While they were also very strong on the customer support and Website-end, when it came to actual transfer speeds - I wasn't so lucky.
On SeedBoxes.cc however, I seem to have finally found the right combination of everything. 10 out of 10!
Thanks Tony!
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