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Seedbucket v3.3.0 and important changes to your crypts!

As of today, and based on your precious feedback, we simplified the creation of crypts in Seedbucket, making it more straightforward and even easier to use!

And for those who are not using the crypts feature, we added a couple of new things to help you organize your dashboards and drives and smoothen out a few annoying bugs!

After you log in to your Seedbucket, you will notice that there are new dashboards on your main sidebar with a lock icon. The reason is that for each crypt that existed in your account (previously found below the drives’ list in settings), a new storage drive type, called “Crypt Drive”, has been created. Your new crypt drive will list the contents of the previously encrypted folder. It contains your existing crypt settings and has been automatically connected to a new dashboard in order to access it.

These dashboards are named after your existing crypt-friendly names. You can rename them from your Settings at any time.

That means no more "crypts” section in your Settings -> Drives. All of your used crypt drives have been transformed into crypt drives, which you can view under the same page along with your other storage drives and access their keys and settings.

NOTE: Unused crypts from your crypts list before the migration were not added to your account. If you still need them, please contact support immediately so we can provide you an export of their settings.

To create a new crypt drive, the storage drive you will add encryption should be already connected. If not, go ahead and add it first. Let’s say you want to encrypt your Google Drive, you need to add your Google Drive account first. Once connected, add a “Crypt Drive” and associate it (with your Google Drive) from the dropdown list, as shown in the screenshots below.

Another thing you might notice is that the dashboards that are connected with crypt drives will no longer list unencrypted folders if you have enabled folder name encryption. Unencrypted files will not show in any case. The encrypted folders/files, however, will still be listed in the associated storage drive, but encrypted of course.

In this release (as already mentioned in this post) after a lot of requests, we have also included the ability to rename the title of your dashboards and drives! This feature is more useful for those, who have multiple drives under the same account and need a custom title in order to remember more easily what is what. You can easily change the title of your dashboards/drives from your settings by clicking the edit icon next to the title. The edit is not available however for your seedbox dashboards and drives.

Finally, a lot of fixes and improvements have been made in order to make your Seedbucket experience even better and we have already started working on the next major features, among other things. :)

Please also check our full Seedbucket guide here.

Stay tuned, and as always, your feedback is welcome!

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Seedbucket with rclone encryption!

We just released a long awaited feature for Seedbucket, which enables support for encrypted drives and folders (which is compatible with rclone crypt). Even though Plex server with google drive integration was already supported, you can now install a plex server with google drive support along with optional encryption, plus we have spent the last couple of months to make the whole process a breeze through our v2.2 Seedbucket application!

As of today, you will need to install Seedbucket first in order to use your Plex with Google Drive instead of going through your client area.

Through a few configuration wizards, you will easily be able to configure how you want to encrypt your drive or folder(s) and then decide if you want to use an encrypted folder with your Plex server installation.

Please note that Plex and Rclone integration currently only works with Google Drive but we do support encrypting Dropbox folders as well.

This new version provides you with the ability to:

* Configure or import existing settings in order to encrypt a whole drive * Configure or import existing settings in order to encrypt one or more folders * Install Plex Server with or without the support of Google Drive and Rclone integration * View, browse and use your encrypted folders as normal folders via the file browser * Copy/Move files between any source and target (e.g. from your seedbox to your encrypted Google Drive folder) and let automatic encryption do it’s magic

Of course, because we like to spoil you, we have been doing much more than that! Except solving a few annoying bugs (indexing files forever, wrong disk space validation with team drives etc), we have also made the whole application much faster during loading and usage and implemented a few extra features like the ability the create a dashboard with a custom folder as home, a few useful shortcuts in the file browser and more.

Our short future plans include making your whole experience with Seedbucket smoother and even more pleasant, and a couple of features that we want to keep them secret for now!

As always, your feedback is always welcome and enjoy another awesome version :)

Useful Resources:

Seedbucket Changelog

How to use Seedbucket

How to connect your Google Drive with your Plex Server

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Unlimited Traffic

We are very excited to announce, that as of today, we are upgrading all our plans for old and new clients with unlimited traffic!

We did a huge investment in our network the past year, making it possible for us to be able to offer this long awaited feature.

Unlimited traffic means that we will never charge your account for a specified amount of traffic per month. However, in order to safeguard ourselves and the performance of our seedboxes for most users we needed to make some adjustments to the way this feature is implemented.

Some of our competitors that offer unlimited traffic plans, mention fair usage limits in small letters, or “off peak” bandwidth which is another word for traffic shaping. All these limitations are basically enforced on all users at the peak time of traffic usage, usually at the evening hours.

We feel that this practice is completely unfair to 90% of the users that consume little to nothing traffic per month, which are throttled along with the “abusing” users during evening hours. We believe, that the users who rarely use a lot of traffic should always have the same high quality of service without a small percentage of abusers affecting their performance.

For this reason we implemented a system, where we basically split our network to 2 different traffic queues. The premium traffic and the volume traffic. Each account that consumes a preset amount of premium traffic (the bigger the plan the more the premium traffic per month) is automatically switched to the volume traffic for the rest of the month. Volume traffic, is kinda like “cheaper traffic”, but most users will never feel the difference, however, there is no speed limitation at all.

Furthermore, even if an account has been switched to volume traffic, this only includes the seedbox traffic. FTP, HTTP, SFTP and Plex traffic, will always use the premium network, making sure that you always get the best peering possible for streaming movies or downloading files to your home at top speed.

This way, we can guarantee, that low traffic consumers, will never be throttled by another abusing user, and will always receive the premium quality network that we are known for.

At the same time, it makes possible for us to be able to offer “unlimited traffic” plans to everyone!

From the whole team at Seedboxes.cc, we would like to wish you Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and a happy new year!