Blogtorrent Initial Impressions

Yesterday I was given the opportunity to host a full length longboarding movie on Silverfish Longboarding. The site has a pretty huge bandwidth allotment, but it became clear after a few hours that it wasn't going to be enough. Before long, 250gb had been sucked down and the server was crawling.

In an effort to provide a better download experience, I decided that bittorrent¹ was going to be necessary to do the job. I've never seeded a torrent, but I remembered having seen Blogtorrent. I checked out their site, downloaded the software and began to install it. Literally (I can tell by timestamps on my forum posts) 10 minutes later the Blogtorrent site was up and running and the torrent was being seeded. You can see the results here.

I recommend the free, open source Blogtorrent to anyone looking for a simple way to host a bittorrent. It even comes with a Mac and PC Bittorent client for users to download. It couldn't be easier.

¹ Bittorrent is a way of distributing a file across several computers so each is constantly uploading and downloading--effectively sharing the bandwidth load.