Local Torrents

Torrents.co.za??? whenever i try to visit that site i get redirected to Lulu's Love shack :confused: is the real Torrents.co.za offline or is Lulu just a disguise?
 
I just use one of the private trackers overseas. Pay my $20 every 3 months and leech as much as i like and my speed is flatout all the time ;-) Also trying to share 5 or more torrents on our crappy upstream is a joke.

Moonie
 
Yea International Sites are >> Local Sites.. with release time , speeds , seeders :<
 
Are there actually local torrent sites? n00b here and have 10GB local to burn
 
Just finished 6GB today. A SAIX local account. Was painful.
 
Ninja Central
Greenlab
and Bitfarm (to which I do not know the address)

All 3 are run under elitist systems that deny access to all but the few that are invited so don't expect to be able to access them unless you get VERY lucky. Personally I think the "invite only system" is dafter than a draft due to torrents using wonderful technology that only gets FASTER the more people there are utilizing it at the same time....buuut it looks like they're set in their paranoid ways and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
 
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Everyone must start somewhere. I would like access a local torrent site mostly for profgrams and documents. I am more than willing to seed what I have ( couple of gigs of pdfs). I am not after the latest stuff just for the sake of having the latest episode of this or that.... where does that leave me?

I am not into movies sharing and music sharing. I am an ebook junkie or wanna be elibrarian. I collect ebooks just for the sake of having them, I have so many on so many topics and will probably never get to read more than 20% of them. I even lost my old collection on a crashed drive so I am rebuilding.:D
 
Basjohn said:
All 3 are run under elitist systems that deny access to all but the few that are invited so don't expect to be able to access them unless you get VERY lucky. Personally I think the "invite only system" is dafter than a draft due to torrents using wonderful technology that only gets FASTER the more people there are utilizing it at the same time....buuut it looks like they're set in their paranoid ways and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
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This may be true for the perfect user, who seeds and leeches.. But unfortunately we do not live in a perfect world so this does not happen. When you open the site you get way to many people who just leech and do not seed. Thus why sites are invite only, so it is hard to get in and when you do get an account you will look after it and follow the rules. As for the speed thing, yes it may be true but "some" of these sites have a nicer enough user base to get nice enough speeds.. ie 400kB/s

Another thing, all international torrent sites (the Top ones) are invite only, all the public ones are pretty much ****..... So its not only in south africa is all over the world.. Its also to keep out people we dont want or need..
 
Freaksta said:
This may be true for the perfect user, who seeds and leeches.. But unfortunately we do not live in a perfect world so this does not happen. When you open the site you get way to many people who just leech and do not seed. Thus why sites are invite only, so it is hard to get in and when you do get an account you will look after it and follow the rules. As for the speed thing, yes it may be true but "some" of these sites have a nicer enough user base to get nice enough speeds.. ie 400kB/s

Another thing, all international torrent sites (the Top ones) are invite only, all the public ones are pretty much ****..... So its not only in south africa is all over the world.. Its also to keep out people we dont want or need..
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Actually this a rather silly way of countering a very easily managed problem.

Simply apply a ratio system. Low ratio = no access to new torrents and eventual ban. Don't think it would work? It already has. Locally too.

Not many people here remember torrents.x86 but it was the best local torrent site we've had so far and it had OPEN registration but merely enforced strict ratio control. The site was an astounding success and only closed due to lack of donations/bandwidth issues.

Most public torrent sites are actually much better than the private ones. The private ones have horridly low seeding counts and are full of stuck up bastards. Public sites (such as mininova) have the grand advantage of some torrents ranging in the 10000 seed margin as well as a great open community of people that quickly warn about any fakes that pop up and confirm real downloads.

This is of course mostly opinion, my opinion at that but that doesn't change that invite only systems are the worst solution to an easily solved problem.
 
How much will it cost to start up a local torrent site?

I have R1000 which I'm willing to spend.

I'm not wanting to make money just see how feasible it is.
 
:rolleyes: 1000Rands are you joking right ? :D R1000 is what you need only to be able
to rent a cheap server somewhere first...
 
LOL, shows how little I know, I thought all that was needed was to rent a good linux host for a torrent site.
 
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sufferwell said:
How much will it cost to start up a local torrent site?

I have R1000 which I'm willing to spend.

I'm not wanting to make money just see how feasible it is.
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with R1000 starting up a local torrent site...... NO

but u could always join a local torrent site and be a donar etc....
 
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