Agreed, it's hard to understand this making any financial sense. If you're looking to do substantial seeding there are low cost unlimited bandwidth vps' that specialize there. If you're simply looking for a delayed but fast torrent download there are services that essentially transfer torrents to files on their server for you to download. And if you simply want to download things fast & on demand, there is always nntp.
Imagine if someone failed to set a max seeding amount and forgot about their EC2 instance for a few days or weeks. It'd be easy to transfer hundreds or thousands of gigabytes (1TB out = $150)
AWS is one of the most expensive ways to buy bandwidth out there. To do worse you have to look at high end dedicated & managed colos and bad deals at big CDNs.
> If you're simply looking for a delayed but fast torrent download there are services that essentially transfer torrents to files on their server for you to download.
Do you have a links to any services like that? The fact that I couldn't find any is why I decided to try this at all.
I haven't used these services and can't vouch etc. etc.
(It's notable that two others I was thinking of, httptorrents.com and imageshack.us have either gone out of business or have cancelled the service. So predictably it's a pretty spotty market).
And, at the risk of breaking rule #1, have you heard of usenet?
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Agreed, it's hard to understand this making any financial sense. If you're looking to do substantial seeding there are low cost unlimited bandwidth vps' that specialize there. If you're simply looking for a delayed but fast torrent download there are services that essentially transfer torrents to files on their server for you to download. And if you simply want to download things fast & on demand, there is always nntp.
Imagine if someone failed to set a max seeding amount and forgot about their EC2 instance for a few days or weeks. It'd be easy to transfer hundreds or thousands of gigabytes (1TB out = $150)
AWS is one of the most expensive ways to buy bandwidth out there. To do worse you have to look at high end dedicated & managed colos and bad deals at big CDNs.
> If you're simply looking for a delayed but fast torrent download there are services that essentially transfer torrents to files on their server for you to download.
Do you have a links to any services like that? The fact that I couldn't find any is why I decided to try this at all.
http://www.furk.net/
http://www.peerharbor.com/
I haven't used these services and can't vouch etc. etc.
(It's notable that two others I was thinking of, httptorrents.com and imageshack.us have either gone out of business or have cancelled the service. So predictably it's a pretty spotty market).
And, at the risk of breaking rule #1, have you heard of usenet?
Thanks.
> And, at the risk of breaking rule #1, have you heard of usenet?
Of course :)