How to distribute torrent files?

Solution 1:

Not knowing what exactly your problem is, I can recommend pscp from parallel-ssh as a tool to upload small files to multiple servers.

You prepare a list of servers to upload to and let it know what to take locally and where to put it remotely. For example:

$ pscp -h list-of-servers file.torrent /tmp/
[1] 02:11:22 [SUCCESS] 10.0.0.21
[2] 02:11:22 [SUCCESS] 10.0.0.20
[3] 02:11:22 [SUCCESS] 10.0.0.45
[4] 02:11:22 [SUCCESS] 10.0.0.19
[5] 02:11:22 [SUCCESS] 10.0.0.2
[6] 02:11:22 [SUCCESS] 10.0.0.5
[7] 02:11:25 [FAILURE] 10.0.0.3 Exited with error code 1

Solution 2:

Given they're very small files typically couldn't you just have a 'dropbox' using HTTP with a cron'ed script doing a curl/wget with wildcard?

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Solution 3:

You could have the torrent clients check an rss feed for new torrent files or switch to magnet links instead of torrent files.

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Solution 4:

You might want to look into murder

Murder is a method of using Bittorrent to distribute files to a large amount of servers within a production environment. This allows for scaleable and fast deploys in environments of hundreds to tens of thousands of servers where centralized distribution systems wouldn't otherwise function

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Murder was/is developed by the folks at twitter, and they're using it daily to distribute files.