Bittorrent is a fantastic distribution technique for big files, however its heavy bandwidth usage can be disruptive to both work as well as house networks. [Brett O’Connor] has decided to push all of his torrenting activity into the cloud. Amazon’s EC2 service lets you run any type of number of Amazon machine pictures (AMI, online machines) on top of their hardware. You pay for processing time as well as data transferred. [Brett] put together a guide for building your own seedbox on the service. First, you set up the security Group, the firewall for the machine. Next, you specify what AMI you want to use. In this example, it’s a neighborhood develop of Ubuntu. when you have your SSH keypair, you can begin the instance as well as set up Apache, PHP, as well as MySQL. TorrentFlux is the web frontend for bittorrent in this case. It handles all the torrents as well as you just requirement to click download when you want to grab the completed file.

Even if you don’t plan on setting up a seedbox, the publish is a simple example of how-to get started with EC2. He’s not sure what the expense will be; the present quote is ~$30/mo.

[via Waxy]

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