Comment on What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 2 days ago
Linux installer ISO images. Perfectly legal, and very helpful.
Torrents for the popular distros have lots of peers, so another seeder wouldn’t be adding much.
I avoid downloading isos via torrent, because when I tried, the client straight up froze for a while dealing with over a thousand peers and sorting out connections.
Yeah it is true but seeding torrents to sature bandwith is generally a good idea
As a seasoned torrenter myself, I don’t observe the ‘>=1’ ratio rule, but instead delete torrents that have enough seeders and keep those which have just a few. This maximizes utility for those who might want the same torrents as I did.
Of course, this inevitably runs into lack of endless disk space.
I just don’t tend to delete torrents at all. I have torrents going all the way back to when I built my current server, almost two years ago. Just set your bandwidth caps, and let the torrent client manage what to seed. Some of my shit is only like .1 ratio because it’s not popular or there are lots of other seeds… But I have a few others that have ratios in the literal hundreds. I think my most popular torrent is a PSX ISO bundle for emulators, and it’s currently sitting at a ratio of like 350.
xana@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
A very good idea indeed. Do you mean via torrent or is there any way to host it ?
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 2 days ago
I had torrents in mind. You could host them directly I suppose, but discoverability would be an issue.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Discoverability is one issue and trust for longevity is another. No bigger distribution is going to rely their official download links on an individual home lab which can disappear overnight. Also I guess there’s also guestion if images are provided as is without adding/removing your own ‘extensions’, but that’s what cheksums are for.
And this is obviously on a general level, I’m not trying to suggest that xana is not trustworthy :) But torrent seeding is a helpful thing for community, and easy/safe to set up.
xana@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
No worry you can not trust a random guy on the internet in general. But one issue I see with torrent is I will have update the torrent manually everytime a new version comes out. I wonder if you know any automatic solution for that ?
xana@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
thank you!