A few months ago I had a post on µTorrent and web seeding. I had been meaning to confirm the ‘untested’ portion of the post, and honestly forgot about doing it… until now.
Web seeding is the best way to ensure your file/package is going to have reliable seeding.
There are some drawbacks, though…
- You need a host
- May require a lot of disk space (many, large files)
- Requires initial upload of the whole package
- You may exceed bandwidth usage of your hosting package
- The transfer speeds will likely be slower
The good side…
- Can turn PC off whenever you want without interrupting seed
- Far more reliable than client-side seeding
- Torrent is hosted “forever”
- as long as you have a host, trackers, and don’t remove the files
- Encourages you to only seed legitimate/legal files
The positives far outweigh the negatives in my view. I will soon have a repository that Ben Hunt will be using to serve his music to the world… another post will follow it’s launch, another on whether it is truly successful.
Stay tuned!
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A good alternative to web seeding is to check into a seed box (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedbox). This uses the same principal as web seeding but depending on your web host’s TOS you may run into some red tape.
Seed boxing allows you to use a dedicated box with a (generally) fast LAN connection to seed your torrents, and you are running on a system that is designed to seed specifically.
I’ve seen seed boxes available with no bandwidth limitations for 5$ a month.
Yeah, this will lean on the “lite” side of seedboxing, it’s the same general concept… but doesn’t require YOU to own/know how to setup the box.
I checked into using lynx to do logins, and will probably end up using Python to upload the torrents to whatever tracker site is selected. It will all be pretty static to start, but eventually, I’ll be implementing a “submit a tracker site” option.
Getting way ahead of myself, but still, lots of fun ahead.
Thanks for the post. (check out: http://edmeacham.com/code/torrent-automation-torrent-creation-webseeding-tracker-selection)