(I sent the following to my hosting provider, ImHosted.com. I know they are probably going to say "No." but at least it will let them know there is an interest. My provider sits on at least two major backbones and has some very nice servers. My point of posting this is to see if anyone knows of a good torrent hosting site.... Someplace where I can get an account of some sort to host my torrents. Even though I have speedy broadband for downloads, my upload rate sux! I have huge amounts of content to distribute.)

I wish to use a torrent server of some type to distribute video and audio content that I produce, my own original content.

I know that torrent servers can consume a lot of bandwidth, however, good torrent software has the ability to throttle bandwidth to reasonable levels.

If you do not offer this option, I would like to operate this service in user-space on my account.

I don't know of any off hand, but it would be awesome to use a torrent server that is multi-user friendly like Apache.

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What I want to do is be able to have a hosting provider that will allow me to upload all my content via web or torrents (a torrent slave server maybe?) and then from that server offer my torrents to the Internet.

Hi,

I think you can try to use one of free and open servers like thepiratebay.org or mininova.org. Just google a bit and you will find a lot of trackers. Also I recommend you to create your own blog on baywords.com or wordpress.com or any other blog platform and write there whatever you want about your video, audio and links to torrents.

> I know that torrent servers can consume a lot of bandwidth, however, good torrent software has the ability to throttle bandwidth to reasonable levels.

Looks like you don't know how torrents really works.
1. Torrent servers can't consume a lot of upload bundwidth because these servers hosts only .torrent-files. All your video files and everything else located on your own PC. So, torrent servers are something like search engines and nothing more.
2. Enyone who found your .torrent-files at torrent tracker can download these files. But it's only links. Your PC will be online to upload shared files, so your computer in this case works like server. Actually if someone downloaded your files and stay seeding -- his computer become server for your files too (while he want to share these files).
3. You will have static IP for Internet with properly forwarded ports because in other case only people with static IP and forwarded ports have ability to download anything from you.

I recommend you to google about torrents and learn what they really are. Maybe you understand something wrong and youtube.com will be enough for your video files.

First, read my other posts... they will fill you in on exactly what I am trying to do...

Lain_13 wrote:I think you can try to use one of free and open servers like thepiratebay.org or mininova.org.s.

I already use pirate bay, they are awesome... mainly because that is where most people look to find video content. The more eyeballs that see my torrents, the more potential it is that my content will actually be viewed.

Lain_13 wrote:All your video files and everything else located on your own PC.

Exactly... And I have about 20 GiB of videos to share over a slow upload connection. I fully understand how torrent software works, but in order for other people to be able to seed my own video content, I must first pipe it through my tiny internet connection.

FYI: I ditched that hosting provider that I mentioned in my first post above. What I did to bypass my tiny internet pipe, was to rent a dedicated machine with a fat internet pipe... and then I physically took my content to a location that had a fat connection and used that to upload to my server. However, I have other issues to deal with... see my other posts that I linked to above.