I know that Amazon provides torrent downloads for files in S3, so if we uploaded our files to S3, we could also provide them via torrent. I am not certain this gets us anything though.
Adam Wolf On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Mark Roszko <mark.ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>I have no issue with that but there is no way for KiCad to control what is >>uploaded to a torrent so I really don't want the project to be responsible >>for it > > The torrent could be autogenerated by the download server when the > files are transferred over, the download server would act as the > initial seed server. The torrent once created could be shared on the > website and then thats it. The contents of the torrent cannot change > without it being a completely different hash and thus invalid for the > torrent. > >>Does our website not have enough bandwidth for downloading KiCad packages? > > Actually simultaneous downloads from multiple users do seem to slow it > down quite a tad bit. It's not like the files are hosted on a CDN like > other projects may have or even github. > > The theory with torrents is the download server would consume the > same bandwidth during initial seed but then others could then "donate" > their bandwidth afterwards to continue sharing (the initial seed is > still there too). > > > Not advocating for this but just throwing my two cents in > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
