Sunday, January 18, 2009, 10:56am
So then why not then move Bittorrent out of the home/office and into the cloud? This weekend I was able to do just that with great success. Using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and TorrentFlux (a web-based Bittorrent manager which runs on top of Bit Tornado). I created a web-based, open-source Bittorrent "machine" that liberated my network and leveraged Amazon's instead. I can access it from anywhere, uploading Torrent files from wherever, and manage them from my iPhone. I also pay only for what I use - which by my estimates will hopefully be less than $30 per month (real data to follow). And the best part? My ratio is maintained while my Left 4 Dead games speed along without any annoying lag.
If you think you might be interested in doing the same thing, please read on for a thorough HOWTO.