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Simple Twist Of Fate
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Simple Twist Of Fate
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no idea - wish i did
if any one knows, please post it here
if any one knows, please post it here
CodeMaster
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Haven't a clue what TorrentFlux is, but from what I understand is that you buy storage space and bandwidth. You then download your torrents (un-shaped) to your webspace, then download from there to your PC over HTTP, which is obviously also un-shaped.
Would my thinking be correct?
From the sound of it, the only real benefit of this is that you can check on your torrent downloads from any browser. Speed is obviously good, but I get good speed through Azureus and Bitcommet anyway.
Does slimothy have a website where I can read up some more, and possibly sign up and dive it a try? I have checked out the www.torrentflux.com website.
Would my thinking be correct?
From the sound of it, the only real benefit of this is that you can check on your torrent downloads from any browser. Speed is obviously good, but I get good speed through Azureus and Bitcommet anyway.
Does slimothy have a website where I can read up some more, and possibly sign up and dive it a try? I have checked out the www.torrentflux.com website.
CodeMaster
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Hmmm, that is quiet a plus 
Where do I sign up?
Where do I sign up?
Fishfly codemaster was comparing torrentflux to tradional way of getting torrents. If you want to be pedantic i should have said does not use your iburst bandwidth to upload ok. I think that is the bandwidth we are all worried about. Yes it does use the servers bandwidth to upload but that is not "costing" you anything.
Hey guys,
Sorry I havent been on the forums and my wirelessza.co.za mail is down... i forgot my pass after a format
The server has grown to the point where I have had to upgrade the whole operation to accomidate everyone. I have had to upgrade bandwidth packages (we did 4.1TB this month and thats with 5 days downtime),hard drives (it now has a cool 1.5TB of capacity), and get two slave servers.
There are now over 70 people on it and the way I had everything setup I had patchy scripts all over the place and there was manual involvement in activating or upgrading accounts. So I have a new interface i made (its very cool if i say so myself) and a site to go along with it... www.torrent-box.org (which is on the server that is down )
The new operation is the same idea... its just getting a little more professional, you'll be able to do more via control panels on the site, setup/upgrade accounts instantly and have more toys to play with on the actual torrent interface (as well as alot of bug fixes).
I am trying my best to get everything done by tonight/tomorrow but at worst it will be up Wednesday. Any time you lost this month due to the downtime will be given back so its all on the up and up.
Theres also a local slave server coming this week, so if you have adsl at work and you need to get something from your "torrent box" you can just move it to the local server and download that way
If you need to contact me use [email protected]
Sorry I havent been on the forums and my wirelessza.co.za mail is down... i forgot my pass after a format
The server has grown to the point where I have had to upgrade the whole operation to accomidate everyone. I have had to upgrade bandwidth packages (we did 4.1TB this month and thats with 5 days downtime),hard drives (it now has a cool 1.5TB of capacity), and get two slave servers.
There are now over 70 people on it and the way I had everything setup I had patchy scripts all over the place and there was manual involvement in activating or upgrading accounts. So I have a new interface i made (its very cool if i say so myself) and a site to go along with it... www.torrent-box.org (which is on the server that is down
)The new operation is the same idea... its just getting a little more professional, you'll be able to do more via control panels on the site, setup/upgrade accounts instantly and have more toys to play with on the actual torrent interface (as well as alot of bug fixes).
I am trying my best to get everything done by tonight/tomorrow but at worst it will be up Wednesday. Any time you lost this month due to the downtime will be given back so its all on the up and up.
Theres also a local slave server coming this week, so if you have adsl at work and you need to get something from your "torrent box" you can just move it to the local server and download that way
If you need to contact me use [email protected]
one more thing, the new torrent-box is moving as far away from torrent flux as I can, torrent flux is server side software to run torrents on, what you have been using is a modded version of it, I actually spent a night or two hacking away at it to change parts. The problem with torrent flux is it does the basics, to do anything useful you need to edit code and editing someone elses code is labourious. torrent box is my code entirely and was written from the ground up to act more like a torrent client on your machine... give you more control. torrent flux will download the file for you but it wont tell you if its corrupt or let you move it to a folder, or zip.. or unzip.. or unrar etc
torrent box is all about putting as many useful features into one package as I can without it being hard to use or overbearing. Because its entirely my code and only meant to run on one setup (mine) I don't have to make it portable, that means it can be as feature rich as i can make it because its not meant to run on anybody elses machine anyway. That being said some of the features are an automated torrent rss feed downloader (like azureus has as a plugin... if you want it to download a linux torrent as soon as a new one shows up on some torrent site, you just make a new rule and thats that), a torrent notifier (it will tell you when your torrents are done.. if you want it to and theres a windows version to get a popup in your system tray when your torrent is done, or stopped or whatever).. you can check the integrity of archives, rar, zip, tar, gz, 7zip.. you can move files easier and manage them alot easier/faster.. share files with friends, there are more compression schemes for different types of files.. for instance if you zip a rompack on the server and it was originally 1GB it will end up being 900MB as a zip however if you use 7zip compression you can get it down to 240MB, which means less of your bandwidth used to get it and when you uzip on your pc it will inflate back to 1GB.
If you have any features you'd like to see in the last day or so leading up to the launch of torrent-box let me know via email ( warren @smythinc.com ) and I'll make it happen
torrent box is all about putting as many useful features into one package as I can without it being hard to use or overbearing. Because its entirely my code and only meant to run on one setup (mine) I don't have to make it portable, that means it can be as feature rich as i can make it because its not meant to run on anybody elses machine anyway. That being said some of the features are an automated torrent rss feed downloader (like azureus has as a plugin... if you want it to download a linux torrent as soon as a new one shows up on some torrent site, you just make a new rule and thats that), a torrent notifier (it will tell you when your torrents are done.. if you want it to and theres a windows version to get a popup in your system tray when your torrent is done, or stopped or whatever).. you can check the integrity of archives, rar, zip, tar, gz, 7zip.. you can move files easier and manage them alot easier/faster.. share files with friends, there are more compression schemes for different types of files.. for instance if you zip a rompack on the server and it was originally 1GB it will end up being 900MB as a zip however if you use 7zip compression you can get it down to 240MB, which means less of your bandwidth used to get it and when you uzip on your pc it will inflate back to 1GB.
If you have any features you'd like to see in the last day or so leading up to the launch of torrent-box let me know via email ( warren @smythinc.com ) and I'll make it happen
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