Re: Offtopic - when to use BitTorrent (was Torpark Mirroring)

[Matt Thorne <mlthorne@xxxxxxxxx>]

I hadn't heard about the http seeding yet, but if so that sounds very
promising. I am going to look more into that.
-=Matt=-

On 11/14/05, Anthony DiPierro <or@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You can offer something through bittorrent and the web, though.  And
> finding people to seed is as easy as finding people to offer mirrors,
> in fact, I'd say that bittorrent is easier to run than alternative
> mirroring systems.
>
> I believe new versions of bittorrent even allow you to use http
> seeding, so you don't have to set up any seeds at all.  Just throttle
> the http server down to a level where your resource usage is
> acceptable.  I'm not sure how widespread this feature is though, and I
> might be misunderstanding it.
>
> I dunno, in my opinion once you've gotten to the point where it's
> worth the trouble to set up mirrors, you might as well set up
> bittorrent as well.
>
> On 11/14/05, Matt Thorne <mlthorne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > the only hiccup with torrent files is that you need a third party
> > download manager to get them. Beleive it or not, not everyone uses
> > torrent files for file sharring yet. and you also need to get people
> > to seed it for you. the seeders would need to use a torrent file
> > program as well, and leave it running all the time.
> >
> > On 11/14/05, Anthony DiPierro <or@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 11/14/05, Eugen Leitl <eugen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 04:26:34PM -0600, Arrakistor wrote:
> > > > > I don't know if the demand of it is that high, but possibly.
> > > > >
> > > > > Secondly, I keep updating, which is counter intuitive for seeding.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > At 7 GBytes/day, with multiple mirrors you don't need BitTorrent
> > > > yet.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a>
> > >
> > > Isn't anything which has mirrors a good candidate for BitTorrent?
> > > BitTorrent essentially just decreases the cost of being a mirror.
> > >
> > > (I guess BitTorrent doesn't handle a site with lots of small files
> > > well yet, but for a site with just a few large files I'd say there's
> > > not really a time *not* to use it.)
> > >
> >
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