I've never done torrent setups or iTunes, so haven't got a clue. :P


I might have enough space/transfer on my server - not sure, and have to go now - if a fixed host is needed I'll check the numbers later.

I've got some reseller hosting your welcome to use while you gauge things. I can limit the bandwidth to prevent it running away - I have 500GB a month to play with and barely tickle it really.

 

Don't know how feasible it is in the long term, but as I say, totally happy to help if I can.

 

I wonder if, between that, Teh and anyone else we could fix up a simple CDN. What do you think Matt, could just do it round robin style, or even just random.
 
Edit: I personally dislike the idea of using torrents for this, primarily because I don't have a torrenting program installed and it's a bit iffy running it when I'm on-site or at work.

Dropbox.

how would that work if we wanted to get onto iTunes eventually?

No idea.

Agreed. I have gobs of bandwidth that I'm not using as well as storage space.

All cool cheers guys.

 

Think iTunes uses a single RSS feed for podcast. I have only created these using a single folder holding all episodes.

 

Sure we can work it out as required though :)

 

cheers

My bandwidth limit is bigger than your bandwidth limit. :>

Can also do monitoring/limiting/etc, so yeah, we could do a CDN/mirror thing and definitely not have anything to worry about.


http://www.transmissionbt.com/
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clients


It's no less iffy than running an FTP program when you're on-site or at work.

Torrenting is a perfectly valid tech for distributing load and downloading files whilst responding to changes in network speed.

Anyway, no reason why we can't have both traditional mirrors, as well as [at least one] permanent torrent seed, and let people use whichever method they prefer. Options good. :)

I agree, I think it makes sense to have both a traditional http feed, but also a torrent feed. It should reduce the server bandwidth a lot if Teh members all use the torrent, but also means the podcast can be served to itunes.etc.