FYI: Blog Torrent 0.9 Released

[Cookiepuss]

Just an FYI for those looking to host their podcasts via an easy to use BitTorrent tracker. The newest version of Blog Torrent (http://blogtorrent.com) is available. From the release info:

New Features:
-Supports Mac OS X for download and upload
-Elegant, optional support for MySQL

It has a built in RSS feed and easy option of people downloading a file even if they lack a BitTorrent client. :wink:

[Funtime Ben]

That's great news! I'm starting to feel the nasty bite of bandwidth coming down on me hard. I might start using BlogTorrent as my RSS podcast delivery system.

[allthewhile]

hey ben, i'd highly recommend http://www.coralcdn.org/

[Lance]

hey ben, i'd highly recommend http://www.coralcdn.org/

I've seen some good and some bad feedback on Coral. I'd love to be a part of a real discussion on this.

[Cookiepuss]

I've seen some good and some bad feedback on Coral. I'd love to be a part of a real discussion on this.

I have been experimenting with using Coral for my project Local Area Security (http://localareasecurity.com). What I have noticed is that your site must be accessed from many parts of the world via Coral in order for it to cache your files on its server. My site gets a great deal of traffic so it does help speed things up.

The general idea I plan on doing is I will have the next release of L.A.S. Linux shared via Coral and Blog Torrent. Being that it is a large ISO image. In order to force people wanting direct downloads to use Coral I will forward the subdomain download.localareasecurity.com to the associated coral path. So the Coral use will be transparent to the downloaders. You could do the same approach with your podcast mp3s etc. Or get more fancy and use round-robin DNS in conjunction. Being I have many mirrors already in place throughout the world.

Torrents are good for removing bandwidth stress from your hosting account completely by seeding from your home DSL. You still get usage if you just give an optional link to Coral cached files. So effectivenesss depends on a few factors. if you are the first person in a geograhic area to request a file from Coral it will be a lot slower since you are getting what is first cached. Or on a distant server farther away than the actual host.