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When distributing over torrent, you need at least one seeder with a good connection. You obviously. So you still need to host a server with your package on it,
by linkdd 5y ago
When distributing over torrent, you need at least one seeder with a good connection. You obviously. So you still need to host a server with your package on it, and configure a torrent client to seed it.
I know a lot of HTTP/FTP storage space providers, or I can just put my binary on Github (Github Pages, or Release asset), or host it on a CDN like netlify. I think there is more solutions than real numbers between 0 and 1.
But I don't know a single "torrent seedbox" provider. Setting it up yourself is not complicated, but since it's DIY, this alone explains why it's not more wide-spread.
- charcircuit 5y agoYou don't need a seedbox. You just make the torrent file reference the normal HTTP download.
- pabs3 5y agoThere is a way that you can add a URL to a torrent file as a seed location, then you always have a backup seed for when there are no torrent seeds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29#Web_seeding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29#Web_...
- kelseyfrog 5y agoCan't you use S3 to seed a torrent? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_GetObjectTorrent.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_GetObjec...
- miked85 5y agoThey seem to have deprecated support [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524549
- banana_giraffe 5y agoAs mentioned, S3's torrent server is no longer a thing. When it worked, it also was never that great. The WebSeed AWS ran was slow, the tracker was always problematic as well.