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there are a variety of open source bittorrent trackers out there that are easy to set up an administer. it's similar to many other sites, easy to set up, hard
by joeguilmette 19y ago
there are a variety of open source bittorrent trackers out there that are easy to set up an administer.
it's similar to many other sites, easy to set up, hard to get people to use it.
the software is the easy part, the community is not.
- rms 19y agoApparently the open-source bittorrent trackers scale horribly. Oink used a custom bitorrent tracker, and waffles.fm and what.cd had bumpy starts because the free trackers they were using couldn't handle the traffic.
- joeguilmette 19y agoall three of those us the same base - torrentbits. torrentbits is an awful tracker. you ever wonder why oink spent like $30k/mo in server fees. why do you want to use bittorrent to distribute files?
- rms 19y agoWhat do you recommend for distributing files?
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- joeguilmette 19y agowell, unless you want to share linux distributions, there aren't many legal. reasons to run bittorrent. most large files that need to be sent are already sufficiently monetized that distribution isn't an issue.
- rms 19y agogotcha, I misunderstood your post above. It's said that 40% of internet traffic is bittorrent and surely 90% is illegal. Piracy is definitely one of the killer apps of the internet.
- halo 19y agoOiNK's tracker was rewritten in its entirety by one of the admins. I seriously doubt they spent $30k/month on server fees (citation?), but it wouldn't surprise me if they spent a lot - do consider they needed to servers with an ISP that wouldn't shut them down, the sheer amount of requests (300,000+ users, each of their torrents announcing every 60 min, plus startup and shutdown).