15 responses to “EEVblog Torrents Now Available”

• David December 18th, 2012 at 13:07

  “…use the Torrent feed, as my host has threatened to shut down the server several times because of the high load.”

  Huh? Dave, you are running a business now. And you still don’t have bandwidth secured by some form of Service Level Agreement (SLA)?

  Why don’t you arrange bandwidth with a Content Delivery Network (CDN) in exchange for promotional time? CacheFly comes to mind (I’m not affiliated) – there are many others.

  Regards, David

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  • EEVblog December 18th, 2012 at 19:02

    I have an expensive dedicated server for the blog and forum, not for the podcast files.
    CDN’s with the bandwidth and space I need are not cheap. For example, the top CacheFly plan at $409/month is not enough for my needs!
    I would be open to exchange for publicity. If you have any suitable contacts I’d be happy to get them.

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    • Sergey December 19th, 2012 at 05:18

      At $200 per TB CacheFly is not a good option. Try MaxCDN.com or CDN77.com — they are quite reliable and 4 times cheaper.

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• Agent24 December 18th, 2012 at 16:53

  I’m all for it! Helps show that Bittorrent isn’t something dodgy used only by pirates.

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• Mats December 18th, 2012 at 17:41

  Hi, is it possible to also add all the old videos to the feed? It would be much easier to download the old videos (and i will also seed them for you )

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  • EEVblog December 18th, 2012 at 19:10

    It can only process whatever is in the blog RSS feed.

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• snarkyboojum December 18th, 2012 at 20:20

  You should look into putting stuff in AWS S3, and just making it available from there.

  E.g. 100GB of storage per month, 100GB of data transfer OUT per month, 10GB of ingestion per month, and 1 million requests per month (storing everything in Sydney) is about $27 USD per month. It’s even cheaper if you store data in the US.

  http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html#key=calc-68A9F837-F068-404E-8B8D-ACB779CBCABD

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  • EEVblog December 18th, 2012 at 20:48

    I need 700GB+/month just in raw bandwith out, not accounting for peaks, or growth.

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    • snarkyboojum December 18th, 2012 at 21:27

      So, that’s roughly $90/month if you store and serve out of the US. I don’t know of a cheaper way to do it.

      $9.50 => 100GB of storage
      $0 => 10GB data IN
      $83.88 => 700GB data OUT
      $0.10 => 100000 GET requests

      Bandwidth is the killer. You can still use BitTorrent and seed from S3, to decrease the bandwidth out bill.

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• snarkyboojum December 18th, 2012 at 20:23

  Oh, and S3 can act as a torrent seeder/tracker if you want to distribute using BitTorrent (this obviously decreases traffic out costs.

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• Mike December 19th, 2012 at 04:56

  Would sure like some HD 1080p downloads for them also

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  • Karl-Martin Skontorp December 19th, 2012 at 09:32

    +1

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  • John December 19th, 2012 at 17:33

    +1

    …podcasts in 1080p and I’ll set up a eevblog seedbox, that’s a promise.

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• Astro January 7th, 2013 at 12:32

  Heya!

  Just dropped by for saying thanks for signing up with Bitlove. You’re bringing more interesting content for the users of my BitTorrent site. Please spread the word among your podcaster friends.

  Feel free to keep in touch via e-mail.

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  • EEVblog January 8th, 2013 at 10:39

    No worries, seems to be working well so far!

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