[Bf-webcontent] Re: BitTorrent tracker for Video tutorials is down

[Glen Moyes]

The bandwidth traffic caused by a BitTorrent tracker is minimal. I mean, 
REALLY small. Maybe a few meg or something a day. It just sends out IP 
addresses of people that have the file. So it won't do anything 
significant to the web site as far as bandwidth is concerned.

The files can be seeded from any machine that has a connection to the 
Internet. Basically that boils down to the community helps seed the 
files. The only way you can make sure that the files are seeded are to 
seed them all yourself. So far this has been very successful within the 
community. I guess you could put a BitTorrent client on the server so 
there will always be at least one seed, but I wouldn't recommend that 
unless you know it won't mess up performance on the site.

I use a PHP based tracker. There are some good ones that I haven't 
checked out yet that allows you some admin options (so you can only have 
a set number of people that can upload torrents). If CPU is the issue 
you can do a search on "BitTorrent Tracker C" to get some results on 
sourceforge.net

- Glen

Bart Veldhuizen wrote:

> Glen,
>
> we are looking if we can provide our own tracker on blender.org to 
> serve large media files. Can you give us an indication of the kind of 
> traffic that we should expect from a tracker?
>
> Also, how do you make sure that your files are always seeded by at 
> least one server? We tried to run a bittorrent client on blender.org 
> as well, but it (the Python version) was giving such large loads that 
> we had to kill it. Are you aware of C/C++ based solutions?
>
> Bart
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