[Live-demo] Torrents of Images?

[Cameron Shorter]

Alex,
That would be very useful if it helps with the uploading of images too. 
Currently it takes me hours to complete an upload, and often requires me 
to restart it 2 or 3 times.

Alex Mandel wrote:
> I've been tinkering with how to create and track torrents with the
> LiveDVD and GISVM in mind. I believe I've come up with a solution that
> uses several freely available trackers, and doesn't require any software
> to be installed on the downloads server although installing a torrent
> client on the server might make it easier/faster to seed.
> Theoretically we could even distribute the file without uploading to
> osgeo 1st, and speed up the upload by spreading the load to several people.
>
> The question for the list, will it be useful to serve the images via
> torrent or is regular http transfer ok?
>
> There are also a few really interesting new variants on the idea which
> may come in handy down the line like Bittorrent DNA, which basically
> creates a torrent out of any download and provides the client to the end
> user automatically, they don't even know they're using a torrent.
>
> Free Trackers
> http://openbittorrent.com/
> http://publicbt.com/
>
> Bittorrent DNA
> http://www.bittorrent.com/dna
>
> If anyone wants to test the idea I've setup a test seeding Alpha5 and
> can post the torrent file, it could be sped up if we used the Web Seed
> option and had the file posted on the server too. Either requires the
> current files to be in a folder or requires the .7z to be a single file.
>
> Alex
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