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EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client

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Re: EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client

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Post by jeremyjarvis »

wccrawford wrote: post #2

Ouch. What would that cost for the bandwidth? I looked into using cloud instances for file sharing (legal files, of course) and decided it would cost too much for what it was worth to me.

Yeah, with the free usage tier you get 30GB data transfer (15GB in + 15GB out) included but that would soon run out.

Re: EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client

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Post by jmcnevin »

mooism2 wrote: post #3

I'm surprised home routers don't have bittorrent clients built in. I expect most people leave them on 24/7 as it is.

There's a number that do... and apparently you can install transmission as an add-on to dd-wrt:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Optware#Installing_torr...

Re: EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client

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Post by Retric »

jeremyjarvis wrote: post #5
wccrawford wrote: post #2

Ouch. What would that cost for the bandwidth? I looked into using cloud instances for file sharing (legal files, of course) and decided it would cost too much for what it was worth to me.

Yeah, with the free usage tier you get 30GB data transfer (15GB in + 15GB out) included but that would soon run out.

From what I see Data Transfer is $0.10 per GB in $0.15 out http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

Assume you seed 50% more than you use 1GB (10c in) + (15c * 1.5 seeding) + (15c download) = ~47.5 cents per GB ouch.

However, a blue ray rip is something like 8.5GB * 47.5 cents = 4.04$ which is not that bad. Assuming you get the actual content that you want, don't end up in jail etc, it’s still cheaper than HD PPV let alone buying the Disk.

Edit: I chose a BR rip as the lowest value content per GB, for most other uses it seems fairly reasonable.

Re: EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client

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Post by jarpadat »

javanix wrote: post #7

The only thing I would ever use this for would be legal files shared with friends - I'm not sure how often Amazon ripples their IP addresses, but I'm sure the RIAA/MPAA would have a field day with an IP address linked to a billing account in the US.

Use a prepaid credit card; use a payphone for the phone call confirmation.

Re: EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client

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Post by spindritf »

jmcnevin wrote: post #6
mooism2 wrote: post #3

I'm surprised home routers don't have bittorrent clients built in. I expect most people leave them on 24/7 as it is.

There's a number that do... and apparently you can install transmission as an add-on to dd-wrt: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Optware#Installing_torr...

OpenWRT http://openwrt.org/ also has a number of clients (and even a tracker) ready to be installed in the repository:

  # opkg list | grep -i torrent
  btpd - 0.15-1 - BTPD is a bittorrent client consisting of a daemon and client commands,
   The daemon is capable of running several torrents simultaneously and only uses one tcp port. 
  cbtt - 20060727-1 - Bittorrent tracker
  cbtt-mysql - 20060727-1 - Bittorrent tracker (with mysql support)
  ctorrent - dnh3.3.2-5 - CTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in the C programming language,
  ctorrent-nossl - dnh3.3.2-5 - CTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in the C programming language,
  libtorrent - 0.12.6_r1130-3 - LibTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, with a focus
  rtorrent - 0.8.6_r1130-1 - rTorrent is a BitTorrent client for ncurses, using the libtorrent library.
  transmission-daemon - 1.92-1 - Transmission is a simple BitTorrent client.
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