File Hosting Concerns?
I am a member!
After a recent experience taking all night downloading one of the ISOs I decided to make torrent files of all of the most recent ISOs in the devel server. I figured that myself and perhaps a few kind volunteers could seed them. I now have torrents of all of the 32 and 64 bit versions of each edition of T7.
I know the development tree is a moving target, but I expect that one could still download the torrents seeded and update to the latest.
My question is: Where's a good place to host the torrent files? I haven't had a website in a long time and I'm not sure of the various freedom concerns with online file hosting. I don't want to accidentally promote some unethical jacka$$ and earn the ire of the Trisquel community.
Any ideas?
How bout this site? Looks like torrents are among allowed attachments. :)
gnufreeme wrote:
> My question is: Where's a good place to host the torrent files? I
> haven't had a website in a long time and I'm not sure of the various
> freedom concerns with online file hosting. I don't want to
> accidentally promote some unethical jacka$$ and earn the ire of the
> Trisquel community.
>
> Any ideas?
If you can't find anything else, feel free to send them to me and I'll
put up some torrent links on one of my websites. I sent you an email
off-list.
Andrew.
Hi kokomo_joe,
Got your PM, but I wasn't sure if your Trisquel email address was active
or not.
You can email me at name at domain (replace "firstname" with my name).
Andrew.
I am a member!
Thanks Andrew. I did get your response.
One more question. What tracker do you recommend? Is there a freedom-loving tracker?
> One more question. What tracker do you recommend? Is there a
> freedom-loving tracker?
Hi kokomo_joe,
I don't know if there are any trackers specifically for free software.
The Trisquel tracker is usually out-of-date and is a closed tracker,
same for gNewSense and other GNU/Linux trackers.
However, these trackers should work fine:
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80
udp://tracker.istole.it:6969
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
Otherwise, you can always leave the trackers blank and leave the client
to use DHT instead. The only downsides are that DHT might take longer to
start the download (as the Bittorrent client has to search for peers)
and that some old Bittorrent clients don't support DHT (although this is
increasingly rare).
I don't think there is any freedom-related issue with using the above
trackers though, because using them will only return peers for a given
"infohash". That is, Bittorrent trackers don't directly recommend or
distribute proprietary software, but if you send it the infohash of a
particular proprietary program then it might return peers that have the
proprietary program. Keep in mind that the infohash alone doesn't give
the tracker any information about what type of file corresponds to that
infohash.
Andrew.
Torrents for the latest ISO images are now online:
http://planet-trisquel.org/torrents/
If you download, please seed if you can. Thanks!
Andrew.