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Seed boxes are typically virtual private servers. Very much like a VPN (it's a proxy.) but they're on major backbones. You get incredible bandwidth. Most will let you put up web services. You get storage...
Many are just 5-10 bucks a month.
Definitely suggested over vanilla vpns.
thanks for the tip, I'll look around for it. The improve of speed is great, although not my main focus. My major concern is keep myself anonymous and not receive some legal takedown or something like that.
If you have got enough local storage capacity then a regular vpn is still by far the cheapest option. Also if you only download from private trackers you might not even need a VPN, since ip trolls tend to stick to public trackers.
private trackers are something I haven't touched yet.
That's really the golden ticket there. With a seed box there's no chance your VPN fails (download stuff on the box directly, you'll have a secure shell and KVM). That can be a real problem with normal vpns if not configured properly (you need to force traffic through the VPN and reject on failure, while most default to a fail back and will expose your IP.)