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The Internet Archive serves a torrent file for every item they host I had no idea. I have found the IA serving speed to be pretty terrible. Are the torrents an
by 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
The Internet Archive serves a torrent file for every item they host
I had no idea. I have found the IA serving speed to be pretty terrible. Are the torrents any better? Presumably the only ones seeding the files are IA themselves.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoThe benefit is not in seeding speed directly from IA, but the potential for distributed access and seeding of the item. Think of it as a filename of a zip file in a flat distributed filesystem, with the ability to cherrypick files that make up the item out via traditional bittorrent mechanisms. Anyone can consume each item via torrent, continue to seed, and then also access the underlying data. IA acts as the storage system of last resort (and the metadata index).
- pabs3 2y agoThe torrents have better speeds because they have WebSeeds for multiple IA servers, so you can download from multiple servers at once.