> Does anyone have, or know of, snake-simple instructions on how to host > large files in a public server, making them available only through > bittorrent. > > I poked around, and can see how to make a torrent file, and then get > that torrent file to a tracker, but I gather from this that the target > file is expected to be available form my PC, and only when I run a > bittorrent client. I want to serve the files form ruby-doc.org, not my > home box. On the ruby-doc.org server, you would upload the file and its corresponding torrent to a private area, then run btdownloadheadless.py on the torrent file. There also has to be a tracker involved, which should also probably run on the ruby-doc.org server. I use screen or its simple incarnation, dtach, to run bittorrent downloads (and uploads; they are the same thing) Ari