Comments on: HOWTO Use Amazon EC2 for Bittorrent

By: negatendo

negatendo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:38:58 +0000

binnary and Lamnk: Publishing content through Bittorent with Amazon S3 is not necessarily the same thing as what I've tried to do in my post.

By: usd6

usd6 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:37:55 +0000

Great article, I learned from you was a big help. Thank you!

By: jth

jth — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:41:36 +0000

Regarding Apache edits:

You might want to specify editing:

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

the …sites-enabled/000-default is a symbolic link and editing that can cause problems if the editing ever converts it from a symlink to an actual file.

Its nitpicky I know, but something to consider

jth

By: HaloMan

HaloMan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:24:48 +0000

I agree with Lamnk, for $50 you can find some cheapo dedicated box that will do the same thing, mind you, without the risk of Amazon terminating an account if they think it might be shady.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:25:44 +0000

The tutorial is awesome. I ran through it and had Torrentflux installed in a short period of time. No problems at all. I’m just curious about the cost. This will be a trial run this month to see. This solves a big problem I was having at home.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:47:41 +0000

I think amazon’s prices are high for keeping the server on all month. Check out slicehost — I have a slice which meets my needs for $20/month.

Watch out for bandwidth overages, though, with either vendor.

By: Lamnk

Lamnk — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:25:08 +0000

This is not new, i thought about it when EC2 came out but the idea got turned down when the bandwidth cost was announced. At 10c/GB you will end up paying at least $50 for 500GB transfer. You can easily find some cheapo P3 or Celeron dedicated boxes with 1000GB transfer for around $50. If you want to save more, a VPS will do the job. Just look on webhostingtalk.com for offers.

BTW, you can also seed torrent from S3 objects. But the cost is essentially the same as seeding from EC2 if your purpose is to increase your ratio.

By: binnary

binnary — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:38:21 +0000

This can be done with Amazon S3 and reducing the final costs a lot than using EC2!

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/index.html?S3Torrent.html

By: Derek Reiff

Derek Reiff — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:54:40 +0000

This seems to be easier that I originally thought EC2 was. Can’t seem to get past the password requirement when first logging in through ssh, though. Will keep trying, though….

By: negatendo

negatendo — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:22:51 +0000

Thomas: You’re probably right. That was a quick and not-so-thorough estimate. For some silly reason I didn’t account for the fact that the instance was probably going to have to be on all of the time. Once I gather some real data on how much it costs be sure and update this post.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:16:20 +0000

So, I’m curious how this is going to cost <$30/mon. Are you only running it as needed? Seems that will be heavily dependent on how quickly the torrents get downloaded and how long it takes to get your ratio to the level you want it (which depends on demand for the files you’re seeding, of course).

By: Santa Claus

Santa Claus — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:20:42 +0000

rtorrent is wickedly fast and efficent. rtgui is a better front end (will even read RSS feeds!).

http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/

http://code.google.com/p/rtgui/