Introducing...the RyanVM Bittorrent Tracker!

Post by **RyanVM** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:24 am

That's right, it's finally live! From now on, never worry about download issues again! If you have a BT client, you can get the files from my site

To begin, get a BitTorrent client - I recommend µTorrent.
Next, go to http://tracker.ryanvm.net/
Select the file you want and click the download icon for it and away you go!

And as a special bonus to kick things off, I've made available on the tracker a full 2.1.2a release for those of you who want it!

And for those of you who may already have some of the files being tracked there, if you could lend a hand in seeding them, that would be great.

Enjoy!

n7Epsilon · Post by **n7Epsilon** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:19 am

Congratulations Ryan ! This should make things a lot easier.

Is this a full PHP tracker ? I like its output very much, it's very clean.

Post by **RyanVM** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:18 am

It's a stripped down T-Xore frontend with a modified open tracker backend (to add authentication and such). And yes, it's fully PHP/MySQL based. aniperleo is a star

Shark007 · Post by **Shark007** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:23 pm

very nice job, excellent idea.

Any chance that you'll extend this to addon makers in the future?

- possibly giving each creator thier own page such as your work is currently on a single page.
- Maybe even ftp access to each creator to modify thier own pages and files.

shark

Post by **RyanVM** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:05 pm

The way the tracker is currently written, it only allows for one person to upload to it. I have been toying with the idea of allowing for others to make use of it as well. However, I want to make sure it can stand up to a good load before doing that. When and if I decide to extend it to addon makers, I'll make a thread in the addons forum for it.

TechnoHunter · Post by **TechnoHunter** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:14 pm

nice! thanks for the updatepack ryan.. grabbing it and seeding (once downloaded) now..
TechnoHunter

Post by **RyanVM** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:32 pm

I also like this because it means people can stop whining about the referrer checking on my site

DataX · Post by **DataX** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:44 pm

Sweet Ryan, great job!!

warrior1109 · Post by **warrior1109** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:42 pm

Excellent job, big thanx Ryan.

Mitsuko Aninikkou · Post by **Mitsuko Aninikkou** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:36 pm

Great, I'll be sure to seed this as necessary.

beaker · Post by **beaker** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:35 pm

I like this so I can download without disabling my firewall due to the referrer on your site

Post by **RyanVM** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:56 pm

Yep, I like that too

TechnoHunter · Post by **TechnoHunter** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:16 pm

wups.. slight problem here

<webQuote>The sql server has encountered a problem, we are trying to fix it as soon as possible</webQuote>

nuts.. hope it works again soon

TechnoHunter

Post by **RyanVM** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:52 pm

TechnoHunter · Post by **TechnoHunter** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:55 pm

oddly enough.. works again for me now too.. notta clue what happened before.. oh well now to download the updatepack from work

thanks gain Ryan

TechnoHunter

dumpydooby · Post by **dumpydooby** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:20 pm

Be careful, Ryan. Dreamhost has been known for cutting off people that are a drain on CPU usage. Bittorrent trackers aren't really CPU-friendly ... just letting you know.

Post by **RyanVM** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:50 pm

Well aware of it, and it's been taken into account

dumpydooby · Post by **dumpydooby** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:51 pm

Good man.

dumpydooby · Post by **dumpydooby** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:20 pm

Not sure if you care, but...

It's w3c, not wc3 (world wide web consortium ... www consortium ... w3c)

htmlentities should be used on torrent titles so that "&" will be used in lieu of "&"

w3c validation cannot be done on pages with server variables ("GET" commands). You can use the "referer" URLs to fix that.

And then I adjust my w3c links accordingly.

meh. *shrug*

Protagonist. · Post by **Protagonist.** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:40 pm

Holy crap, I just started downloading the update pack and it's done in like 30 seconds. 1.1 MB/s...

That's odd the 2.1.2a is the same size as 2.1.2, but that could happen, but also the hashes don't match.

The tracker website has this hash listed for 2.1.2a:
46a5d12a279a851520b39b71aeced2191a9d0de3

And I get this hash from the file:
DA75AE5B6BADED4B0C8B723C65538B0B

Post by **RyanVM** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:52 pm

Protagonist. wrote:Holy crap, I just started downloading the update pack and it's done in like 30 seconds. 1.1 MB/s...

That's odd the 2.1.2a is the same size as 2.1.2,

Why, the only difference is one updated file which was already in the pack before.

but that could happen, but also the hashes don't match.

The tracker website has this hash listed for 2.1.2a:
46a5d12a279a851520b39b71aeced2191a9d0de3

And I get this hash from the file:
DA75AE5B6BADED4B0C8B723C65538B0B

Read up on BitTorrent. BT hashes aren't MD5 (your first clue should have been the fact that the hash isn't even the same length as an MD5 hash...)

dkrus · Post by **dkrus** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:12 pm

Thanks, my personal fav way to d/l stuff

Hunterx6886 · Post by **Hunterx6886** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:48 am

The Torrent Tracker is a great idea. My firewall didn't squeal at me for trying to download the new Update Pack. Thanks!

war59312 · Post by **war59312** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:52 pm

Love the tracker, wish I could get the modified script, lite version as it's called.

Does aniperleo share it? Thanks!