[thelist] BitTorrent hosting
Chris Johnston
chris at fuzzylizard.com
Fri Apr 30 21:42:03 CDT 2004
PeterV wrote:
>I'm having a hard time finding clear documentation to host BitTorrent
>files. Can I host those files from my cheap FTP provider?
>
>
You can host them from your home computer if you want to. The trick with
bittorrents is not the hosting, but the seeding of the files. This means
that in order to allow people to download the files, you really need
someone to be downloading the files. Otherwise the process will not
work. In addition, you really need a lot of people to be downloading the
files in order to make bitTorrent worth while. If the demand for the
torrent is really low, then you are probably better off going with ftp.
What are you looking to distribute through bitTorrent and what is the
demand for it?
chris
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