thank you!
Comment on What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 2 days agoI had torrents in mind. You could host them directly I suppose, but discoverability would be an issue.
xana@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Comment on What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 2 days agoI had torrents in mind. You could host them directly I suppose, but discoverability would be an issue.
thank you!
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 ?
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I’d guess there’s some tools which rely on RSS feeds or something to update seeds automatically, but that’s just a gut feeling. Also it shouldn’t be too difficult to write your own, but I don’t know if anything ‘production ready’ is out there.