Why shared over dedi?

In many cases shared seedbox is much better choice than a dediseedbox.

Why shared seedbox is often better choice?

• Ease of use
• Instant availability
• Cost
• Better burst capabilities
• Sometimes you get practically a dedi for shared money

Easy to use

Most of the times a dedi doesn't come setup, it's just a plain install, and you need to know how to install everything etc.

You could go with something like PMSS, but it still requires you to set it up and knowing how to administer the server, updates, creating users etc.

Shared service has already all of this covered.

Instant availability

Shared and semidedi seedboxes are usually instantly available, no waiting period etc. just login and start using it. Even if a dedicated server is provided to you within seconds like many providers do, you still need to install everything and that could easily take up an hour or two.

Cost

Obviously a shared service is going to be much cheaper almost all of the time. Certainly, there is ultra cheap dedis on the market as well, but they often have a setup fee associated with them or other hardships, and often are so weak as to be barely usable.

Better peak performance

Say you get a 10Gbps seedbox from someone like Feralhosting, you are going to see 5Gbps+ peaks at least down. To get a dedicated like that would cost you hundreds a month, but with someone like Feralhosting it's going to be tens of euros. Sure, they have huge markup, and huge amount of users per server to be able to offer that service for tens of euros, but you will also benefit from their optimizations.

There is also plans where you are going to see ultra stable performance despite being shared, for example a 1Gbps seedbox with just 100Mbps upstream capability and traffic limited seedbox, so you get a nice middle ground between dedicated and shared :)

Sometimes you get tons more than you bargained for

With shared services you have the potential to get tons more than what you bargained for, sometimes the other users on the server barely use any resources what so ever, or it's mostly empty server waiting for new signups. Think about it, dediseedbox for shared seedbox money! :O

How Copyright laws and lobbyists stiffle innovation

TorrentFreak reported that Flixtor and Torrentlookup was shutdown by the developers voluntarily due to pressure from MPAA. They were looking down the barrel of a huge lawsuit and were not capable to defend themselves in courts.

I haven't seen nor used Flixtor, but from the screencap and description i gather it was quite a bit of innovation - a competing product for Netflix but using torrents as the distribution mechanism and apparently free for users.

Now this is the kind of innovation we need, but is being stiffled by MPAA, RIAA and the likes. Just imagine,easy to use app for the newest movies and a huge selection, powered by bittorrent on the backend hence costing 0 for the developers to handle the distribution of data, and free for users.

Why, couldn't they just work with them? Make some kind of deal to keep this innovation moving. The irony is that this is the kind of innovation which actually is in the best interest of copyright holders, really the only question should be how do we monetize this platform where our releases freshly available and has a huge market, and has zero distribution costs, worldwide access.  Even if the copyright holders would receive just few cents per viewing of a movie, they would stand to make a killing when something like this becomes popular enough.
Since distribution is powered by Bittorrent, it's accessible from China, India etc. at the same flat rate, and those are some huge markets out there.

100Tb Servers No More!

In the past there used to be 1Gbps 100Tb Servers, which meant these dedicated servers had traffic limit. Usually you could not even come close to that traffic limit on a dedicated server.

Today's trend however are 1Gbps burstable and strict limits on the total bandwidth of 150-300mbps.

Traffic limits and traffic overages are a thing of the past, and the seedbox community thanks thee!

Wordpress suing for wrongful, abusive DMCA complaint

WordPress  has had it with fraudulent DMCA claims and they are suing Nick Steiner from Straight Pride UK for abusive DMCA takedown notice.

Oliver Hotham wrote an article about "Straight Pride UK" organization, with included a quote from Nick Steiner. Nick Steiner disliked the article and sent in a DMCA takedown notice to Wordpress in order censor it.

Automattic, the company who develops Wordpress and the services teamed up with the Journalism student Oliver Hotham and sued for $10,000 in damages and $14,520 in attorneys' fees.

Automattic's general counsel Paul Sieminski said

“The system works so long as copyright owners use this power in good faith. But too often they don’t, and there should be clear legal consequences for those who choose to abuse the system,”

 Which essentially means the system is broken from the get-go, especially considering that failure to act on DMCA notices removes the service provider from the Safe Harbor provided by DMCA, and the DMCA abuse penalty by default is "under penalty of perjury" - a slap to the wrist for abusers.

Hence the system is inherently and completely broken: Service providers basicly have no means to try to protect their users, and any one claiming copyright, rightful copyright holder or not, and whether it is a actual copyright complaint or not can take any content down. In theory, you could ask a company to takedown their own logo and they'd be forced to do so, and only then can they sue you for damages, in essence, censorship and vandalism worked.

This doesn't stop with big organization etc. any individual can claim copyright to any work and have it taken down. Infact, if you send a complaint to blogger about this post it will be taken down.

Source: TorrentFreak.

New Kimsufi dedis

Been using a new kimsufi 500G dedi. that's insanely affordable at 4,99€ a mo + VAT. You can't really get the VAT removed in any case, they don't respond to those requests even if you are eligible for vat removal and support... you can forget getting any even semi-decent support from them, it's basicly just a forum these days.

Anyways, the server was setup fast, the new management gui is convenient and quick to use, very simple, but also limited and slightly buggy in it's attempt to be so dynamic.

for basic servers a no frills no chills service which offers quite a lot for the money - but knowing from the history if you use a lot of bandwidth they might demand at any moment more money from you.

For something basic like a IRC shell box and "file locker" it's very nice :) but for a bit more punch and stability i'd look elsewhere.

Dedicated Seedbox vs Shared Seedbox

Dedicated or Shared Seedbox? That's quite an question!

It all depends on your budget and what you are after. If you want stable speeds and lots of resources, and got a bit of budget - then definitively a dedicated seedbox is your option!

If you need more burst speeds, and don't mind sharing the connection, or you are budget limited then shared seedbox is your choice.

Technically they differ in that dedicated seedbox has dedicated resources, dedicated hardware *just* for you, so for the money it may not offer as high peak speeds or performance, but you will not share with anyone else neither.

Shared seedbox is a slot, or slice, in a server with multiple users. It does not mean you share an account with another user, it merely means that there is a multitude of users on that same server which may affect your speeds.

If you are worried that no bandwidth will be available for you to use, to hit an server with heavy users then a good middle point choice is a seedbox with traffic limits. The traffic limits ensure that a single user may not use 100% of the server resources, as they will get limited if they do too much traffic.