There have been quite a lot of torrent indexers already, but most of them are sooner or later closed. So, I decided to create one more, simple enough (so it can work on its own on a relatively cheap VPS) and legal (so it would be much more difficult to close it). Most of the site data can be freely downloaded. Is there something you think any decent torrent indexer should have?
I thought about some kind of distributed storage, but the technology is not there yet (=I cannot implement that easily, users cannot use it easily). The site uses a regular PostgreSQL database. Most data, though, is published on Internet archive in a standard format (https://torrenthistory.org/docs/open-data/). There are torrents as well, users can download and seed them. I will upload new archives monthly
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There have been quite a lot of torrent indexers already, but most of them are sooner or later closed. So, I decided to create one more, simple enough (so it can work on its own on a relatively cheap VPS) and legal (so it would be much more difficult to close it). Most of the site data can be freely downloaded. Is there something you think any decent torrent indexer should have?
Could the data be retained on something like IPFS so that cloning of the tracker could happen independent of its existence?
I thought about some kind of distributed storage, but the technology is not there yet (=I cannot implement that easily, users cannot use it easily). The site uses a regular PostgreSQL database. Most data, though, is published on Internet archive in a standard format (https://torrenthistory.org/docs/open-data/). There are torrents as well, users can download and seed them. I will upload new archives monthly
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