Latest News
Public trackers are still allowed.
We've always allowed public trackers, but this is probably still the most frequently asked question despite already being answered in our FAQ, so we thought confirmation here would help clarify this position.
All seedboxes also provide a free web proxy that allows you to access any tracker via your seedbox with all data between you and the seedbox fully encrypted so your traffic between the seedbox and your internet connection is totally anonymous.
We've provided this proxy service since 2008, mainly to help with the transfer stats from the seedbox correctly updating trackers, but the recent news that ISP's are blocking some trackers makes a seedbox.me web proxy an even more useful feature these days.
3 May 2012
Our best value rutorrent seedbox EVER!
Looks like the Easter Bunny has been at work on our 200mbps ruTorrent seedboxes now with more goodies.
There's a new 20GB seedbox for only $15 while the old rut25 has been upgraded to the rutorrent 40GB for the same $20, and there's a new 80GB seedbox for an insanely low price of only $30 per month.
There's also a special offer available, but just like an Easter egg hunt, you need to look for it.
(clue: read the news item below)
Happy Easter!
8 Apr 2012
Magnet Link Converter.
We're offering a new free service at magnet2torrent.me that will convert any magnet link into a torrent file.
If you have a torrentflux seedbox you'll love this new service because not only does it convert magnet links to torrent files, but magnet2torrent.me will also provide you a link which you can then copy then paste directly into the URL section of your seedbox to load the torrent.
So if you're using your home client at present to grab torrents before loading them to your seedbox, forget that! With magnet2torrent.me and your torrentflux seedbox you can now enjoy completely remote torrenting again when using magnet links.
You can also use this new service to check if a magnet link is active.
If magnet2torrent.me doesn't find your torrent file within a minute then the chances are the torrent has very few peers.
If the torrent file isn't found at all then it's likely the magnet link is dead.
Enjoy!
23 Mar 2012
Magnet Links.
More and more trackers are starting to use Magnet Links, and some have started using only Magent Links.
All rutorrent packages at seedbox.me support magnet links directly by pasting the magnet link into the URL box when using the add torrent function.
Torrentflux does not support magnet links at present, but we're working hard to come up with a solution to this.
So in short, if you have no choice but to use magnet links then you must use an rutorrent package at seedbox.me for now.
9 Mar 2012
Support website issues.
We're having some issues with our support website so we are in the process of moving it elswhere. DNS propogation may result in the support.seedbox.me site not resolving so please use the link below.
UPDATE: Link removed, DNS propogation completed.
7 Mar 2012
1G prices SLASHED!!
We've just slashed the prices for our 1G tf_b4rt packages, so you can now get a 50GB seedbox on a 1Gbps line and 4 active torrents for a mere $25!
Please click through to view the rest of our 1Gbps seedbox offers.
21 Nov 2011
Main website and chat issues.
We're having issues with our main web site host which is affecting our main site and Live Chat.
Accounts and Support remain unaffected.
We hope to have all issues resolved within the next 24 hours.
30 Oct 2011
Accounts maintenance.
Accounts will be offline for maintenance for up to an hour today starting at 08:00 UTC
5 Oct 2011
FTP limits increased.
FTP limits have now doubled on all our torrentflux packages, so 400kbps per thread with 5 threads allowed on the 200mbps torrentflux packages, and 1000kbps per thread with 5 threads allowed on the 1Gbps torrentlux seedbox.
All existing customers have been upgraded automatically.
We're also in the process of updating the FTP guide which will show you how to transfer 1 large file using all 5 available threads so you can get the best available speed possible. This should be completed and live on the site by this weekend.
4 Oct 2011
Seedbox improvements.
A few tweaks and patches have been recenty applied to keep the seedboxes in tip top shape.
Firewall tweaks to help improve FTP performance and better handling of UDP requests for some of the public trackers.
Live chat from the seedbox is now also secured so no more browser warnings in your seedbox.
A bug fixed in one of our scripts where some torrents from a well known and devilishly good tracker were being deleted by the system.
23 Sep 2011
New account features.
Thanks to a recent request by one of our users via the uservoice feature mentioned below, we've added a couple of new features to our accounts manager.
Cheers for that!
Once logged onto your account you will now see the following new menu links:
Support Links: Now shows if online chat is available and provides links to view existing support tickets or create a new ticket.
Server Status: This link will show your reported server status and will update dynamically so you can instantly see if there are any ongoing reported issues or if maintanance is ongoing.
Account Status: When you log onto accounts you will now be taken straight to a new account status page. Can't access your seedbox? Now you will see as soon as you check accounts if it's Active, Overdue or been Disabled.
Hopefully these small changes will help make managing your account and seedbox that little bit easier.
19 Sep 2011
Account manager maintenance.
Accounts could become unavailable due to a server upgrade anytime today between 01:00 and 06:00 EST.
13 Sep 2011
Live Chat direct from your seedbox.
It will soon be possible to access Live Chat direct from your seedbox when we're online.
This should be fully rolled out to all servers by the end of this week.
You will only see the chat button when we're online so if you don't see it and you have an issue please contact support by clicking the Super Support link from your seedbox or from here.
12 Sep 2011
Feature requests.
We've now added uservoice to our range of support features. This new service is a great way to make a feature request or vote on an existing request.
Look out for the orange "Request a Feature" button at Super Support or when logged into accounts.
24 Aug 2011
PayPal email delays.
UPDATE: Issue below is resolved. Emails now arriving as normal.
There seems to be an issue with PayPal emails being delayed. This was slowing down our automated new customer activations and disabled seedbox renewals.
We are now manually checking payments received about once per hour until PayPal resolve this issue.
10 July 2011
Using a UDP Tracker? Use Transmission!
More and more trackers, especially public trackers that don't require signup, are using UDP in favor of HTTP for announcing torrents.
Unfortunately our default client, bittornado 3.18, doesn't support UDP data announcing, so if you look at the tracker announce list and see addresses starting with udp:// and you are using bittornado, it won't run and will just sit there doing nothing.
You can also spot the issue if you check the torrent log.
The good news is that Transmission 2.12 does work fine with UDP, and is now available to use on most of our torrentflux packages.
Here is a guide to changing the client on a torrentflux seedbox here at seedbox.me.
23 May 2011
