Comments on: How to Create and Seed a Torrent Download on Amazon S3

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:23:05 +0000

Here is a high-level overview. First, you need to install a bit torrent client on your computer. That software and your internet connection need to remain active. If you are sharing more than 1 file, place them in a single zip file. For the file you are going to share, use the bit torrent software to generate a .torrent file; this is the small file others will initially download that allows their bit torrent client to connect to your bit torrent client and then download the original file.

You can "publish" the .torrent file on a tracker or a website if you want it to be publicly available.

Alternatively, you can create an Amazon S3 account, upload the file to be shared to that account, and then use the steps above to allow others to download it via bit-torrent. Unless you have a huge number of simultaneous downloaders, you may be better off just allowing them to download the file directly using their web browser without requiring them to use bit torrent.

If you want more details, do a google search on "how to seed a torrent".

By: Laney

Laney — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:54:07 +0000

Hi, I am new to torrents and fileshare and I want to be a good seeder what do I need to do? Google has been no help, nor has wiki, it talks about what not to do, but is unclear what to do? do I just leave my isp open? do I need to have bt running? please help. no mocking please unless it is truly original.

By: CarltonBale.com » 9 Hidden Features of Amazon S3

CarltonBale.com » 9 Hidden Features of Amazon S3 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:49:12 +0000

[...] your local PC and let S3 act as the tracker. Or let S3 handle both the seeding and the tracking. Here are the details on how to do [...]

By: coki

coki — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:01:49 +0000

is this still available?

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:03:03 +0000

Oh, I see.

But I think that's not what I'm looking for. I intend to collect the stats through torrent scrape into the DB. Then I'd output the data (seeds/peers, etc) like this:

http://www.hg-subs.com/index.php?option=com_torrenttrader&Itemid=3

I've been able to collect some data though, using the method I wrote above (editing the torren to use one extra tracker). However, my script is not able to collect those stats.

Maybe I should try using another tracker.

Thanks anyway!

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:11:19 +0000

You can enable bucket logging. See this post: http://www.carltonbale.com/2008/05/9-hidden-features-of-amazon-s3/

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:46:38 +0000

Hi,
I'm interested in this feature of S3. I've been doing some tests. For example, I want to collect stats from the torrent, so I tried editing the .torrent file, adding optional trackers to see if they can collect stats, but it doesn't seem to work.
Is there any method to collect stats from the S3 torrents?

Thanks in advance

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:17:08 +0000

Darren: Instead of uploading the torrent file, could you instead provide a link to the torrent to be downloaded (such as the Amazon S3 link above.) That way, you won't have to upload anything. They download the torrent from S3, their bit torrent client launches, and the download will begin. Would this work or am I missing something?

By: Darren Starr

Darren Starr — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:11:03 +0000

Hey Guys, Perhaps you guys can help. I regularly distribute content for people, like music videos of up and coming bands and singers and also low budget films or films that didnt quite make it to the cinema. I need to help these people get recognised by distributing their content. I already use myspace and youtube but the problem Im having is that is it such a pain to upload torrents to each site. I have maybe about 20 a day and submit to about 15 of the top sites. So you can imagine that its a very time consuming job.
I was wondering if anyone knows of a way I could write all the information 1 time and submit it to all the important sites that way?
Like a bulk torrent uploader or something like that?
Does anyone have any Ideas?

I'd really appreciate it!

Many Thanks Everyone,

Darren Starr

By: modeals

modeals — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:36:45 +0000

ive been looking for something this and im happy i found this site. question though, i can seem to create the torrent file. i keep trying to add the ?torrent at the end of my file and its not working. i enter it into my bittorrent client and it doesnt work, i put the url in my browser and its saying it doesnt exist. can someone help me?

i just need to figure out how to get the torrent made then i can seed it thru bittorrent right?

sory, im a total newbie at this… forgive me

By: Jessie

Jessie — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:07:15 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial. I really need to know – is there a way of having your amazon s3 server seed a torrent for mininova/pirate bay? I don't know how to add trackers to a torrent downloaded from the amazon s3 server. When I try to upload the .torrent file from my amazon s3 server to mininova or piratebay it doesn't work. Is there a way to do it somehow?

thanks

By: Bryan Villarin

Bryan Villarin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:52:56 +0000

I can download the file from S3 using a standard HTTP connection.

Can I send you the torrent to see if you can download it? Looking at the details in uTorrent, it seems okay.

Would you like a screenshot?

Thanks for replying so quickly… =)

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:35:08 +0000

Make sure you have the ACL setup properly. Can you download the file from S3 using a standard HTTP connection? If you un-shared the file on S3 so you could seed only with your local PC, maybe it's not connecting to the tracker on S3 properly.

By: Bryan Villarin

Bryan Villarin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:12:13 +0000

Hey Carlton,

I followed your directions last night and emailed my friend the torrent file. He downloaded it and opened it up just fine. I'm sharing it locally and its still on the server. But, nothing would download.

Is this service down right now?

Could you help me out?

Thanks… =/

By: Direct Download Center

Direct Download Center — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:16:19 +0000

Wow! Thanks a lot. this is what i am looking for

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:29:44 +0000

Kenney: Amazon S3 costs $0.20 per GB of data transferred. You have a huge amount of bandwidth; that would cost $300/month on S3. Most people don't have anywhere near that; I have 100 GB/month for example. The real advantage of S3 is that it has unlimited storage capacity and bandwidth. An overage would shut-down your hosted web server, but would not shut down S3. The other advantage is that S3 can track and seed a torrent, and most hosted web servers can't. The big advantage of S3 and torrents is that Amazon S3 is a super-reliable tracker, and you can unshare the file and use basically no bandwidth to share/seed the file (once other clients have it downloaded.)

For you, with all of that unused bandwidth, you'd have to have a bunch transfer before S3 would make sense for you. I'm not sure if you could use your provider to track/seed a torrent, but you could definitely use it to host the file.

By: Kenney Jacob

Kenney Jacob — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:33:22 +0000

I have a dedicated server with me with 1500GB transfer limit. If I want to seed some files, which one is cheaper, Amazon or my dedicated server. I have more than 1000 GB bandwidth unused every month on my dedicated.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:21:18 +0000

Great post. Thank you.