[Gllug] Seeding bit torrent on Debian: a better way of doing this?

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 14:55 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 01/23/2010 01:17 PM, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > There must be a better way of doing this - though most sources say
> > hosting these things yourself is a bit stupid: is that right?
> 
> have you looked at rtorrent ? its not hard making that into a 'service' 
> and letting it run that way. I know its used on some really large 
> torrent seeding places without any problems. And its not nearly as 
> hungry on resources as the 'bittorrent' python implementation, and a lot 
> more stable.
> 

Thanks, I'll look into that

> Not so sure about hosting it your issue - why would you not host 
> torrents yourself ? If you like, there are people out there who sell 
> torrent seeders on a monthly basis, you could consider that. but then 
> why bother with torrent at all, and just go with http/ftp.
> 

Well, these are big files - 700MB or so (about 30 mins of high quality
video) - so the consideration is bandwidth. It doesn't take many
downloads in a day before you are pushing at even a very generous usage
policy.


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