nextcloud
Torrent
Hi there
Since your downloads are quite sizable and since my download just failed, do I suggest offering torrent files next to the casual downloads.
This also reduces the load on your server, if that's any concern.
Thanks, have been thinking about it. But I'm not that good with how torrents work, and I wouldn't know how to automate the process of uploading one.
Maybe you can help?
Yeah, good call.
Let's try this, I havent done this myself, while I am open doing so.
I do work on this, once my instance of Nextcloud is productive. :)
@lukaspavelka
Maybe i can also help with it, if you need my help please let me know
Sure, would be great if a torrent could be created. We need to script it so that it can be done automatically each time a new release is made.
Maybe some basic stuff where to start is:
for ova in $(find . -type f -name "*.ova" | awk -F '.*/var/www' '{print $2}'); do bash -c "create-torrent $ova --urlList 'http://127.0.0.1/$ova/{}' -o ${1%.ova}.torrent" sh {} \; -print; done
Or implement php-torrent solution from here: https://github.com/christeredvartsen/php-bittorrent
Thanks @lukaspavelka!
Would be great if you could have a look exactly how it's done and then send a PR this way. :+1:
@enoch85 can you specify what exactly need to be done in what order so i can prepare some solution for it? I need more specifics.
When I do releases I work with VMware Workstation (on Windows, yeah I know). So for each new release I would need a script, Powershell maybe (?)(I don't know) which creates a torrent for each new release I make.
The torrent itself should then be auto uploaded to some public tracker so that downloads could start immediately. Another alternative would be to just create the torrent so that I could upload it using any BitTorrent client out there.
I hope that makes sense, I'm not that good with creating torrents, only VMs. ;)
I mean the coolest thing would be if there was an app for Nextcloud that would integrate a torrent server into Nextcloud but that's most likely at least currently not doable...
Here was a proposal that might work: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/torrent-server-for-file-share/88707/5
I've now implemented a script that checks out OK, but it doesn't seem to work out of the box: https://github.com/nextcloud/vm/tree/master/torrent
Anyone that have an idea what might be wrong?