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What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth

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What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth - Lemmy.zip

Hello fellow TCP users. I am currently having a lot of unused bandwidth. I wonder do you have any suggestion what to do with that bandwidth ?. Ideally it should more or less only relay the traffic because unfortunately I don’t have much idle RAM left (something like a Tor-relay node but least risky). Thank you very much!

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xxce2AAb Mar 7

Linux installer ISO images. Perfectly legal, and very helpful.

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SlurpingPus Mar 8

Torrents for the popular distros have lots of peers, so another seeder wouldn’t be adding much.

I avoid downloading isos via torrent, because when I tried, the client straight up froze for a while dealing with over a thousand peers and sorting out connections.

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xana Mar 8

Yeah it is true but seeding torrents to sature bandwith is generally a good idea

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SlurpingPus Mar 8

As a seasoned torrenter myself, I don’t observe the ‘>=1’ ratio rule, but instead delete torrents that have enough seeders and keep those which have just a few. This maximizes utility for those who might want the same torrents as I did.

Of course, this inevitably runs into lack of endless disk space.

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mic_check_one_two

I just don’t tend to delete torrents at all. I have torrents going all the way back to when I built my current server, almost two years ago. Just set your bandwidth caps, and let the torrent client manage what to seed. Some of my shit is only like .1 ratio because it’s not popular or there are lots of other seeds… But I have a few others that have ratios in the literal hundreds. I think my most popular torrent is a PSX ISO bundle for emulators, and it’s currently sitting at a ratio of like 350.