# Seedbox hosting
> A seedbox is a remote server dedicated to BitTorrent transfer, keeping the activity off your home connection. Incognito VPS storage servers provide 4 to 32 TB of RAID-10 capacity with unmetered transfer from $16 per month, in jurisdictions where the US DMCA has no direct legal effect.
**Source:** https://incognitovps.com/use-cases/seedbox-hosting
**Updated:** 2026-07-05

## Recommended configuration

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Plan | VAULT-8 (sx-8) |
| Specification | 2 vCPU, 8 GB, 8 TB |
| Jurisdiction | Chișinău, Moldova |
| Price | $28.50/mo |

8 TB unmetered at $28 is the sweet spot for most private-tracker ratios, and Moldova sits outside both EU judicial cooperation and US copyright enforcement treaties.

## Resource guidance

| Scenario | Minimum |
| --- | --- |
| Light seeding | 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 4 TB |
| Private tracker ratio | 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 8 TB |
| Heavy archival | 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 16–32 TB |
| Transfer | Unmetered on all storage plans |

## Why the storage line rather than a VPS

Seedboxes are disk-bound and transfer-bound, not CPU-bound. A VPS gives you fast NVMe you do not need and 60 GB of it, which is not enough. The storage line inverts that: modest CPU, plenty of RAM for the torrent client’s hash tables, and four to thirty-two terabytes of RAID-10 enterprise disk with an NVMe read cache in front.

Transfer is unmetered on every storage plan, which is the entire point. A metered seedbox is a seedbox with a bill attached to seeding, and seeding is the part that earns ratio.

## Build it yourself, or use the image

The straightforward stack is rTorrent with ruTorrent, or qBittorrent-nox if you prefer its web UI, behind an nginx reverse proxy with TLS. Add Sonarr, Radarr and Prowlarr for automation, Jellyfin if you want to stream directly, and rclone to push finished content to cold storage elsewhere.

Our Debian 13 image ships with a one-command installer that sets up qBittorrent-nox, nginx with a Let's Encrypt certificate and a WireGuard tunnel back to your machine, if you would rather not do it by hand.

## The legal position, stated plainly

BitTorrent is a transfer protocol and running one is lawful everywhere we operate. Distributing content you do not have the right to distribute is not lawful anywhere we operate, and our acceptable-use policy prohibits it.

What the jurisdiction changes is procedure: a US rights-holder cannot send a DMCA notice to Chișinău and have it produce an automatic takedown, because the statute has no force there. They can bring a claim under Moldovan law in a Moldovan court. We are not going to pretend that difference does not exist, and we are also not going to pretend it makes infringement legal.


## Frequently asked questions

### Is transfer really unmetered?

Yes on all storage plans, at 1 or 2 Gbps depending on tier. There is no cap, no overage and no throttle. Sustained line-rate use is expected and is what the plans are for.

### Which location for a seedbox?

Moldova is the usual answer — cheapest, outside EU judicial cooperation, no US copyright treaty. Bulgaria if you want EU-grade latency. The Netherlands if throughput matters more than legal distance.

### Do you send DMCA notices to customers?

The DMCA has no legal force at our locations, so we do not action it as a statutory obligation. Notices that identify real infringement under applicable local law are forwarded to you with a response window.

### Can I use rclone to move data off the box?

Yes, and it is a good pattern. Unmetered transfer means pushing finished content to cold storage costs you nothing. Many customers pair a storage server with a VAULT in a second jurisdiction.


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