This seems like a slightly worse seedbox marketed towards people who haven't heard of seedboxes.
Just the same way Dropbox is for people who haven't heard of NASs or Amazon S3.
Name one seedbox provider that can be set up that quickly.
1. go to your VPS control panel, span another vm
2. ssh to it
3. aptitude install transmission
done.
You don't even have to manage that box. not even install security updates if you don't want to.
If you can use a ssh client:
Then someone will probably make a billion dollar company understanding why that's an out of touch response.
But hey, super easy!
Also, rtorrent. Geez, guy! :-P
They even have 1 click installers, it's really simple.
A seedbox would be better if: * You're active on private trackers. Most private trackers don't work well with services like put.io. * You enjoy the level of control that's available with a seedbox.
Put.io is (in my opinion) much better if your goal is quickly and painlessly getting multimedia files from public torrent sites. It has some neat features like Mp4 video conversion to stream/download to iDecvices that would be challenging to implement in a seedbox, and instantly completes downloads that other Put.io users have in their files. Something that would be impossible on any seedbox.
Now that their lowest plan is $10/mo, there isn't as much of a cost advantage for put.io as there used to be when they had $5/mo plans, but even at cost parity, I'd still pick put.io over any of the seedbox services I've used, or setting up my own seedbox on a VPS.
They also allow for external subtitle tracks to be added and again, it works with the Apple TV (something that other alternatives were never able to do).
Also, judging by the percentage of torrents I add on put.io that are instantly completed, I guess they have a sizeable user-base... That wasn't always the case with the seedboxes I've tried before (I'd say more than 90% of the torrents I add on put.io are completed, converted, and instantly streamable to the Apple TV)
Is it ok to download these """Videos""" there? Because it doesn't look like it is.
So yeah, you do need either an iPad or iPhone to do it, however Put.io has a Roku app if you have one of these.
https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect
PlexConnect is a simple DNS server that rewrites requests to trailers.apple.com to your local machine (where a daemon is running that responds to requests from your Apple TV.) It then takes the place of the "Trailers" app, and requires only that you change your AppleTV DNS server config to your own machine, and that you install their SSL certificate in your AppleTV's certificate store.
You can edit your AppleTV's certificate store with an Apple-developed program called Apple Configurator (in the OSX App Store for free) so at least it doesn't requires anything like jailbreaking.