From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 25 06:29:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D912616A407 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:29:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hier7.com) Received: from smtp109.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp109.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.207]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78ED313C467 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:29:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hier7.com) Received: (qmail 75184 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2007 06:02:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?74.109.56.185?) (cms.kw@rogers.com@74.109.56.185 with plain) by smtp109.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Feb 2007 06:02:58 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: t8b8XFEVM1lxZ0nJdrsDBEEZJ16vYVWCbmzIV5wI.TlRfx.rTEChvZM03xXbGmpr2w-- Message-ID: <45E12693.9050206@hier7.com> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:02:59 -0500 From: Chris Slothouber Organization: hier7 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45E0F697.2030005@allcaps.org> <002001c758a1$a3ed10f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> In-Reply-To: <002001c758a1$a3ed10f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:29:40 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Lentvorski" > To: > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:38 PM > Subject: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? > > >> Can we please get the FreeBSD torrent tracker and/or server back? >> >> (snip) >> > > Nobody pays the mirrors for their bandwidth. They are hosting and > paying for the bandwidth out of the goodness of their hearts. > > Nothing is stopping you from setting up your own torrent server on a big > fast > pipe that everyone else can use, and not pay you for. > > I don't know for sure how other ISP's do it but we definitely use > bandwidth limitations on the servers we host, customers that pay a lot > get a lot, customers that pay less get less, and the freebie servers > get whatever is left over after the paying customers have had their fill. > > (snip) > > I would suspect if you examined the financing scheme used for the Linux > download servers you would find that it is quite different than FreeBSD. But isn't the whole point of peer to peer file distribution to *distribute* the bandwidth requirements to the point that the costs involved for each of the individual peers is trivial but the client receiving the file still obtains full speed of a direct download?