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EC2 is overkill for leeching (or even seeding) a few torrents. If you want more bandwidth just find some crappy $5 VPS server somewhere (lowendbox reviews a st
by drewcrawford 18y ago
EC2 is overkill for leeching (or even seeding) a few torrents. If you want more bandwidth just find some crappy $5 VPS server somewhere (lowendbox reviews a steady stream of cheap hosting) and install torrentflux.
- wmf 18y agoI get the impression that most VPS providers ban BitTorrent and IRC.
- a-priori 18y agoSo does Amazon...
- tsetse-fly 18y agoWhere did you hear that? Amazon Web Services does not ban BitTorrent or IRC. They actually support BT as an official delivery method from S3. http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/index.html?S3Torrent.html http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/index....
- a-priori 18y agoI was referring to the passage in the article which reads (emphasis mine): 'Distributes, shares, or facilitates the distribution of unauthorized data, malware, viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, worms, or other malicious or harmful code (collectively, “Harmful Components”).' I took that to include copyrighted data, including Battlestar Galactica episodes.
- tsetse-fly 18y agoYes, but what does that have to do with prohibiting BitTorrent and IRC?
- wmf 18y agoObviously a-priori is obliquely making the point that BitTorrent is mostly used for copyright infringement.
- tsetse-fly 18y agoThat may be true for shared hosting, but not for VPS. The entire point of having a VPS is that you're guaranteed a slice of the server to do what you want. If your provider is somehow monitoring your processes, sniffing your traffic, and setting restrictions on your applications, then I would find another one.