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That site served blazingly fast. It's refreshing to see an ad free torrent site. Since you aren't monetizing the site, how are you planning on keeping the site

That site served blazingly fast. It's refreshing to see an ad free torrent site. Since you aren't monetizing the site, how are you planning on keeping the site running? Donations?

happy-go-lucky 10y ago
It's very fast. Currently they're NOT accepting donations. https://www.skytorrents.in/howto https://www.skytorrents.in/howto
lelandbatey 10y ago
Given the relatively slim page size (23Kb for me), and given that SQLite can pretty easily host a relatively simple database like this one and serve 100K-1M queries per day[0], I would expect that whoever is hosting this could pretty easily host this on a single dedicated server which only costs ~$50. So for the foreseeable future, I suspect this site will be fine. [0] - https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html
- kasumis_ 10y ago
  SQLITE cannot handle indexing queries of our kind and is not used. We have kept the page slim, so as the website is as fast as possible.
  - karthikp 10y ago
    If you don't mind me asking, what technologies are you using?
    - chippy 10y ago
      It appears to be using Caddy at least https://caddyserver.com/ https://caddyserver.com/
      - kasumis_ 10y ago
        Caddy is just used as a reverse proxy, a frontend for the backends.
  - DaiPlusPlus 10y ago
    You could use Sqlite for persistence, but a search index like Lucene for full-text searching - and Lucene runs great in constrained environments too.
    - etatoby 10y ago
      Sphinx Search is orders of magnitude faster and more lightweight than Lucene. Heck, even PostgreSQL's fulltext indexes would be faster than those Java monsters.
- leereeves 10y ago
  The cost of hosting will probably be insignificant compared to the cost of dealing with DMCA takedowns and possibly lawsuits.
  - sergiotapia 10y ago
    That's why I built Magnetissimo: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo It's easy to build a crawler, the hard part is spending time on bullshit like DMCA takedowns and such. Even if you say: "I just crawl, I don't provide download links, I don't even know what is indexed", you have to deal with legal issues. So, host your own locally or for your community. No big deal. Even Google has to deal with DMCA!
    - TuringTest 10y ago
      How large is the database compiled by Magnetissimo? Is it Wikipedia-sized (a few dozens of Gigabytes), or several orders of magnitude above or below?
      - sergiotapia 10y ago
        Haven't really measured to be honest. But it's only 1 model with a few fields. Shouldn't be humongous.
  - cabalamat 10y ago
    I'm sure you'll right. The MPAA will get this taken down as soon as they are aware of it. Which is a shame because it's a very nice looking and functional website. Aside: the MPAA can do this, of course, because they give lots of money to politicians. If Trump really wants to "drain the swamp" he could be more pro-freedom on file sharing and copyright. Many Trump supporters feel Holywood supports the Democrats, so it's not like he will lose much support over this. A Republican staffer suggested something similar a while ago ( https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/11/16/2354259/gop-brief-attacks-current-copyright-law https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/11/16/2354259/gop-bri... ) but was shot down.

That site served blazingly fast. It's refreshing to see an ad free torrent site. Since you aren't monetizing the site, how are you planning on keeping the site running? Donations?

happy-go-lucky 10y ago

It's very fast. Currently they're NOT accepting donations. https://www.skytorrents.in/howto https://www.skytorrents.in/howto

lelandbatey 10y ago

Given the relatively slim page size (23Kb for me), and given that SQLite can pretty easily host a relatively simple database like this one and serve 100K-1M queries per day[0], I would expect that whoever is hosting this could pretty easily host this on a single dedicated server which only costs ~$50. So for the foreseeable future, I suspect this site will be fine. [0] - https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

kasumis_ 10y ago
SQLITE cannot handle indexing queries of our kind and is not used. We have kept the page slim, so as the website is as fast as possible.
- karthikp 10y ago
  If you don't mind me asking, what technologies are you using?
  - chippy 10y ago
    It appears to be using Caddy at least https://caddyserver.com/ https://caddyserver.com/
    - kasumis_ 10y ago
      Caddy is just used as a reverse proxy, a frontend for the backends.
- DaiPlusPlus 10y ago
  You could use Sqlite for persistence, but a search index like Lucene for full-text searching - and Lucene runs great in constrained environments too.
  - etatoby 10y ago
    Sphinx Search is orders of magnitude faster and more lightweight than Lucene. Heck, even PostgreSQL's fulltext indexes would be faster than those Java monsters.
leereeves 10y ago
The cost of hosting will probably be insignificant compared to the cost of dealing with DMCA takedowns and possibly lawsuits.
- sergiotapia 10y ago
  That's why I built Magnetissimo: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo It's easy to build a crawler, the hard part is spending time on bullshit like DMCA takedowns and such. Even if you say: "I just crawl, I don't provide download links, I don't even know what is indexed", you have to deal with legal issues. So, host your own locally or for your community. No big deal. Even Google has to deal with DMCA!
  - TuringTest 10y ago
    How large is the database compiled by Magnetissimo? Is it Wikipedia-sized (a few dozens of Gigabytes), or several orders of magnitude above or below?
    - sergiotapia 10y ago
      Haven't really measured to be honest. But it's only 1 model with a few fields. Shouldn't be humongous.
- cabalamat 10y ago
  I'm sure you'll right. The MPAA will get this taken down as soon as they are aware of it. Which is a shame because it's a very nice looking and functional website. Aside: the MPAA can do this, of course, because they give lots of money to politicians. If Trump really wants to "drain the swamp" he could be more pro-freedom on file sharing and copyright. Many Trump supporters feel Holywood supports the Democrats, so it's not like he will lose much support over this. A Republican staffer suggested something similar a while ago ( https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/11/16/2354259/gop-brief-attacks-current-copyright-law https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/11/16/2354259/gop-bri... ) but was shot down.