Seedbox.IO: The Definitive Review

SeedIt4Me calls themselves “The Superheroes of the Seedbox World.” Although their superpowers are giving them some traction, the Seedbox world is really a red ocean of bloody competition. These “superheroes” are more likely the “newborn warriors” in this seedbox world. SeedIt4Me started offering seedboxes around July 2019, and so far, they have done an exceptional job positioning themselves well in this fierce competition. What superpowers do they have and what are they missing? They offer unmetered bandwidth, their one-Gbps-fits-all plans, decent speed, free VPN, and fantastic customer support. But on the downside, they don’t offer dedicated servers, access to public trackers, and flexible plans.
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SeedIt4.Me in a Nutshell. 

Seedit4.me is a fairly new seedbox provider with four different plans to choose from. Their Seedboxes are located in Germany Hetzner’s high-end datacenters. They have a reputation for being good seedboxes for beginners as they have simple choices and their seedboxes are easy to connect to and start. They also have amazing customer service and the most wanted— Unmetered Bandwidth!!!. 

But most advanced Seedbox users still prefer their old provider, as some complain of their shared speeds (1Gbps), no dedicated seedboxes, and inability to allow public trackers. SeedIt4Me takes privacy, security, and overall network performance very seriously. They have placed a block list to filter access to public trackers and disabled DHT. 

How do They Work? 

On the frontend, you’ll see a cool and very original dark UI mode. The dashboard is highly interactive, really easy to use, and has everything you need to contact support, access your seedbox, forum, news, view network stats, and more. 

On the backend, SeedIt4Me runs its Seedboxes on shared VPS (Virtual Private Servers). Each Seedit4Me VPS node uses a single public IP and shares the connection among its running seedboxes (users). 

What are Their Options?

All Seedit4Me seedbox plans come with a 1 Gbps connection speed and unmetered bandwidth. All of them also include a free VPN and root access to the seedbox. 

What makes each Seedbox package value for the money, is its size. The smallest box starts at 1500 GB of HDD storage and 2GB of RAM— which is good for starters. The high-end Seedbox offers a much larger storage with 5000 GB of HDD and 5GB of RAM, plus more apps and Plex streaming server support. 

  1. Sidekick: 1500 GB HDD storage, 2GB RAM, No Plex Server, and up to 10 allowed apps. 
  2. Hero: 2000 GB HDD storage, 3GB RAM, Plex Server up to 1080p (video resolution), and up to 15 allowed apps. 
  3. SuperHero: 3000 GB HDD storage, 4GB RAM, Plex Server up to 4K (video resolution), and unlimited apps.

Super Seedbox Man: 5000 GB HDD storage, 5GB RAM, Plex Server up to 4K (video resolution), and unlimited apps.

Shared Connection and HDD.

All SeedIt4Me servers have the following specs (as of 15th June 2020). 

  • Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.5GHz (8 Cores)
  • HDD – SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 rpm.  
  • 32 GB (or 64 GB) ECC RAM
  • All servers share one Gbps bandwidth.

Price and Purchasing. 

Their pricing and packages are very simple as compared with other Seedbox services. The monthly fee is disclosed at the homepage which you can cancel at any time. 

Prices: 

SeedIt4Me has various Seedbox plans. Their prices range from €9.99/month for the cheapest plan to €34.99/month. For more information on your local currency, please visit SeedIt4Me.

When purchasing a Seedbox, you can choose different billing cycles, from monthly, every 3 months, 6 months, and up to one year.



Payment Methods.

Aside from popular payment methods like Paypal, Visa, and MasterCard, Seedit4Me also supports cryptocurrencies as payment methods — you can pay with BitCoin and CoinPayments. 

Get Money Back Policy? 

SeedIt4Me provides a 7-day money-back guarantee. If you tested and didn’t like the service for the first week (7 days), you can request a refund. They’ll provide a full refund, minus the first week of service. If you consumed more than 1TB they’ll reject the refund, because you likely have been using the service. 

Be aware that if you pay for a SeedIt4Me Seedbox with a Cryptocurrency, you’ll not get a refund. 

Using The SeedIt4Me Box: 

Right from the beginning, SeedIt4Me’s dashboard is easy to use and straightforward. From the dashboard, you can see, manage, and access your Seedbox (or add more.)

This console is where everything happens. Here, you’ll be able to see the Seedbox information (ID, IP, and Hostname), status, credentials, disk usage, installed apps, FTP credentials. If you want to monitor your seedbox and keep track of its traffic and processing, this console gives you detailed information on CPU, bandwidth, and disk utilization.  

To know information about the seedbox, go to the left bar and click on “Seedboxes”.  Here you’ll see the same information plus take some actions like “Stop” or “Restart” your Seedbox.

And if you scroll down, you’ll see more details such as Stats and Traffic.

Here, you can also manage different options, such as accessing your “Installed Apps” or to “install more apps.”

Inside the SeedIt4me Panel 

The SeedIt4Me Panel works with Swizzin, which is a light and modular solution designed for media servers, such as Seedboxes. 

Your SeedIt4Me panel is where you’ll manage your seedbox’s resources, such as bandwidth data, load, disk space, torrents, system’s RAM and CPU stats, and services.

From this same panel, on the left-hand bar, you’ll see a shortcut to torrents clients (rTorrent and Deluge). From this panel you can directly access your downloaded files.



Final Words.

What seems to position SeedIt4Me well in the Seedbox community is its simplicity. For now, they don’t offer faster bandwidth plans like 10Gbps (although the probably will in the near future) or dedicated servers — instead, all of their seedbox packages have the same 1Gbps throughput and shared connection.

Another factor to consider is that their servers are located in Germany, which is probably a good thing for some and not so good for others. Network latency (routing) can be a big issue when you are located across the world, in places like the US or Asia. 

Cons.

  1. No public trackers allowed. One of the reasons why SeedIt4Me doesn’t allow public trackers is because of its VPS/servers provider, Hetzner Online (based on Germany). Hetzner’s data centers are known to have great infrastructure and good bandwidth, and they seem to be fine with private trackers. But the problem comes when users download torrents from public trackers, as these servers are common places for bandwidth abuse and copyright problems. 
  2. Only 1 Gbps connection speed. Even though their data plans are unlimited, they don’t have higher connection speeds than 1Gbps. 
  3. No dedicated Seedbox servers available. Shared resources is a great starting point for beginners, but seedbox veterans seem to prefer dedicated IP per Seedbox. For now, SeedIt4Me does not offer dedicated servers. They also do not offer VPS Seedbox. 

Pros:

  1. No limits to network usage. An advantage of SeedIt4Me boxes is that the network usage is unlimited. That means that your traffic is unmetered — your connection will not be throttled if you download/upload too much. 
  2. User Interface: SeedIt4Me comes with a comprehensive and easy to use dark mode UI, which seems to be a plus for the majority using their services. The control panels and dashboards are very useful and straightforward. 
  3. Amazingly fast customer support: According to many users, their support seems to be very good. They are fast to respond to their customers and keep updates of their network. 


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