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Not-Quite-RARBG
Making sure that a torrent always have seeders
Current problem
Hello,
I loved RARBG but the issue was that older torrents never had seeders. making their old listings useless. (Same with many other torrents websites.)
Proposed solution
Is there a way to make sure that each torrents have seeders, for example by keeping them all running as leechers on a dedicated server? Or else?
Thanks.
Describe alternatives you've considered
No response
Additional context
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This would be very expensive for the team to implement, so I dont this is realistic to implement.
I feel the main cost would be just regarding the harddrive capacity (because the library is huge indeed.) And of course a good bandwidth. It would be just as if I kept all the files in my personal computer with a big external hard drive, and just left utorrent run all day, acting as a seeder. Or is there costs I don't think about?
I feel the main cost would be just regarding the harddrive capacity (because the library is huge indeed.) And of course a good bandwidth. It would be just as if I kept all the files in my personal computer with a big external hard drive, and just left utorrent run all day, acting as a seeder. Or is there costs I don't think about?
Yes, that is the main cost.
The current collection has a total size of 6.5 PB, storing all of that won't be feasible anytime soon
Ok indeed, I don't know if such storage capacity can be found on the cheap. But if a solution can be found it could be worth it. Because I don't see the interest of having a huge library of torrents if only 10% of these have seeders (=are downloadable.)
It seems like you don't understand, 6.5 petabytes is equal to 6.5 million gigabytes
Renting a seedbox costs a lot of storage (and thus money) as said earlier. As for existing torrents: you don't need to store the files somewhere if they're popular enough, because seeders upload it to other peers. That's the whole point of P2P. As for new files: that'll be harder. That either means we need to act like an indexer (and thus getting the files from elsewhere) or store the files ourselves, but that will be very expensive. Former would be bad, because RARBG wasn't an indexer either.
