Q. Is 'My Vendor' Down?

Most known seedbox vendors are composed of many machines, in some cases where people are crowded in sharing scarce resources, in other cases you are but a of a few people.

If your seedbox is down, it is far more likely that your machine is down, not the entire service, it is also possible that just your account isn't working or has been shutdown. To determine if your machine is down, you either need the name of the machine, or the root IP address of that machine.

You can then ping it, by at the dos or linux command line:

ping myMachine.VendorDomain.tld

or

ping ip.address.of.yourbox

It is often a good idea to open a ticket with your vendor before posting to reddit, where you may be mocked for over generalizing (and not reading the FAQ)