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Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the send-me-your-biggest-file dept.

heypete writes "Hurricane Electric is now offering BitTorrent tracker/seeder services on behalf of paying customers. One need only upload the file desired to a specified directory by FTP, and their system will automatically generate a torrent file, add it to a tracker for that customer, and act as a "seed" to ensure that the file is available to downloaders. This could prove to be extremely useful for distributors of large files (such as Linux distributions), as bandwidth for the tracker and seeding services does not count against the bandwidth quota for the account."

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  1. Hurrican Electric... Fremont, CA pride baby! by aboynoir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This company was started by some guys I went to high school with at Irvington High School in Fremont, CA.

    w00t!!

  2. File Rush already does this - for free by AIX-Hood · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not to toot my own horn (ok maybe just a little) but I've been doing this with my File Rush project for well over a year now. We've got a good number of high bandwidth seeds, have worked the kinks out of keeping a stable site and tracker going, and just by looking at our user submitted section, one can see that many people have taken advantage of the free seeding and tracking of their torrents. http://www.filerush.com