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When distributing over torrent, you need at least one seeder with a good connection. You obviously. So you still need to host a server with your package on it, and configure a torrent client to seed it.

I know a lot of HTTP/FTP storage space providers, or I can just put my binary on Github (Github Pages, or Release asset), or host it on a CDN like netlify. I think there is more solutions than real numbers between 0 and 1.

But I don't know a single "torrent seedbox" provider. Setting it up yourself is not complicated, but since it's DIY, this alone explains why it's not more wide-spread.



There is a way that you can add a URL to a torrent file as a seed location, then you always have a backup seed for when there are no torrent seeds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29#Web_...


You don't need a seedbox. You just make the torrent file reference the normal HTTP download.



As mentioned, S3's torrent server is no longer a thing.

When it worked, it also was never that great. The WebSeed AWS ran was slow, the tracker was always problematic as well.


They seem to have deprecated support [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27524549




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