As a Nexus One user, the modding community on XDA is probably the single greatest thing on the planet when it comes to my Nexus One, without you guys, the entire Android platform wouldn't be as great as it is now.
In an effort to give back to the community, and help other nexus users, I'm here to offer free, unlimited (virtually) hosting to any and all nexus one developers. Gone should be the 4shared and mediafire links, non direct downloads will hopefully be a thing of the past! I have spare space and bandwidth, and I want to use it to help people.
If you are a Nexus, or even just an Android, developer, please, send me a PM and I can give you a subdomain of my facepwn.com, as much bandwidth as you can use, and plenty of space. This isn't only file hosting, I'll happily give you MySQL databases, shell access, anything (within reason) that you need. Completely free, on my VPS, not shared hosting.
Just drop me a PM and I can set your hosting up today/tomorrow.
Wow, thanks bro. =)
Nice work thanks bro!!!
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That is way cool. Let's hope you get a lot of requests from Devs, because I can't stand rapidshare and mediafire downloads.
Way to give back, man. Cheers.
Just want to say I've got some hosting too I can spread around
Not VPS, just a standard bluehost hosting package - but I do have unlimited bandwidth/storage etc paid through the next 11 months and am not currently using for anything.
I was thinking about making a similar post but ya beat me to it
I'll be glad to help out also, even if just as a secondary mirror. Just hit me up w/ a PM or email! Wildmonks is currently using it as a mirror and it beats the hell out of rapidshare etc
same here. we'll give you ftp access at androidoverdrive.com
just drop a line and we can hook you up. we have forums too and since the staff is knowledgeable we can help provide support for your rom as well
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Not VPS, just a standard bluehost hosting package - but I do have unlimited bandwidth/storage
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They don't allow file storage/sharing like this.
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They don't allow file storage/sharing like this.
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Hm, I'll have to check my ToS again, maybe shoot them an e-mail. I was under the impression it wouldn't be an issue.
Edit: Ah, I see the "Backup Storage" clause. Seems easy enough to workaround as it's not being used explicitly for that. I do have a site in the works up on the main domain, could even put some type of placeholder up if that's all that's needed to say it's not being used "exclusively and explicitly" for backup storage.
OMG how many more of these do we need? This also isn't anything to do with Development so shouldn't a Mod move this to general?
cool! good job! may God always bless you!
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OMG how many more of these do we need? This also isn't anything to do with Development so shouldn't a Mod move this to general?
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OMG, how many more ingrates do we need? This isn't anything to do with being helpful so shouldn't a Mod move this to garbage?
You apparently don't understand. Take CM6-a1 for instance, I provided a mirror for just the N1 version on my own hosting to help out, and I served over 1Tb of bandwidth on a single file within a week. Now extrapolate that over all the Roms out there, and you're looking at 100s of terabytes of bandwidth a month. Spreading that load out over multiple servers, data centers and countries keeps speeds high, costs per person lower and allows for continual service (aka, redundancy).
So, kindly, shut it if you dont understand or appreciate why someone offering a service such as this is nice.
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Hm, I'll have to check my ToS again, maybe shoot them an e-mail. I was under the impression it wouldn't be an issue.
Edit: Ah, I see the "Backup Storage" clause. Seems easy enough to workaround as it's not being used explicitly for that. I do have a site in the works up on the main domain, could even put some type of placeholder up if that's all that's needed to say it's not being used "exclusively and explicitly" for backup storage.
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Too much traffic to a download and they wont like it.
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Does anyone ever torrent this stuff? I'd download crap and leave the torrents going 24/7 if someone had an android tracker.
If I knew anything about trackers and had time, I'd take up some of the offers for free hosting and start one, but I don't have either time or expertise...
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OMG how many more of these do we need? This also isn't anything to do with Development so shouldn't a Mod move this to general?
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Enough to get rid of all of the stupid mediafire, rapidshare and 4shared links. I hate using those sites, and would rather see everyone be able to give direct links I can easily download on my phone, and that are fast.
Way cool Man!!!! Thanks for this!!!!
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I will be hosting FOR FREE your Roms on my web server. Why you are asking...Well i would like to help out. I alrdy have RRE roms uploaded and a site made because i use his roms and i like them. Right now i will let up to 5 people to be able to upload there things. If this goes good i will make it so more people can do it. So just think of it as you have ur own site for your roms lol...well thats if you know html lol...Yes if you know html go ahead and make a page to upload if not just give the files to upload and i will give you the link of were they are going so you can post them on here for people to download instead of useing Megaupload,Etc...(i hate them sites) Well anyways this is what i will be doing if you would like to do this please reply or send me a msg.
Thanks.
RRE Roms I need to update it lol but here is his.
Also i will be uploading all radios also.
P.S this is not just for Raphael Rom Developers
developmenters?
... is that a new breed?
You mean ROM developers ? Love the developmenters though
I think it's great! We all hate those free upload sites that make you wait 82 secs before download starts, and the speed sux.
I hate being "that guy", but have you completely taken into consideration the bandwidth necessary to successfully host ROMS for a long duration?
If you have a shared web host, they're most likely going to suspend your site after a short while. Most hosts advertise "Unlimited Storage" and "Unlimited Bandwidth" nowadays... these are very misleading claims -- they typically specify limitations in their Terms of Service. Read the fine print carefully.
If you have a Dedicated host, then you might be okay depending on your plan. I bring this up because there are going to be A LOT of people downloading ROMS and at 100-200MB a piece, that adds up to a whole lot of bandwidth!! It would be unfair for everyone to rely on a mirror that might shut down shortly after coming online.
If I'm speaking out of line, or if you have already taken these into consideration, please ignore me!
I will second that. I host my ROMs on my residential line (which is actually totally unlimited!) and I have had offers before of 50GB a month. Cleaned it out in about 5 days. I would love to have you host my ROMS though to spread the load as I only have 2.4 mb up stream and usually one of my regulars mirrors to Rapidshite to help me out.
PM me if you want more info/stats from a smalltime chef
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I think it's great! We all hate those free upload sites that make you wait 82 secs before download starts, and the speed sux.
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Yeah i know i hate that too thats why i have my own server! = D and i also have 3 domains!
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I hate being "that guy", but have you completely taken into consideration the bandwidth necessary to successfully host ROMS for a long duration?
If you have a shared web host, they're most likely going to suspend your site after a short while. Most hosts advertise "Unlimited Storage" and "Unlimited Bandwidth" nowadays... these are very misleading claims -- they typically specify limitations in their Terms of Service. Read the fine print carefully.
If you have a Dedicated host, then you might be okay depending on your plan. I bring this up because there are going to be A LOT of people downloading ROMS and at 100-200MB a piece, that adds up to a whole lot of bandwidth!! It would be unfair for everyone to rely on a mirror that might shut down shortly after coming online.
If I'm speaking out of line, or if you have already taken these into consideration, please ignore me!
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Ok. I do have Unlimited space right now and everything... this is what i have right now Total traffic 21.9 GB/99999.0 GB Disk quota 3709/999999 MB lol what do you think? i have already talked to my host about it. So we are all set if anyone wants it feel free to send me a msg...this is not just roms also!!! Hey you guys can pay all this money for these dont ass uploading sites or just take this up cuz i am a nice guy lol.
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I will second that. I host my ROMs on my residential line (which is actually totally unlimited!) and I have had offers before of 50GB a month. Cleaned it out in about 5 days. I would love to have you host my ROMS though to spread the load as I only have 2.4 mb up stream and usually one of my regulars mirrors to Rapidshite to help me out.
PM me if you want more info/stats from a smalltime chef
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Yea sure thing i am here to help!! I will send you a PM but please send me a PM if you would like to do this from now on!
LlamaLord said:
Yea sure thing i am here to help!! I will send you a PM but please send me a PM if you would like to do this from now on!
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PM'ed
3 more to go...
2 Spots right now are taken please if anyone would like to do this please PM me!
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RRE Roms I need to update it lol but here is his.
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*clicks .. feels his retinals burn and die a horribly painful death*
please tell me those colors are temporary?
I already have a spot but wanted to say thanks again
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*clicks .. feels his retinals burn and die a horribly painful death*
please tell me those colors are temporary?
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What colors?
aruppenthal said:
I already have a spot but wanted to say thanks again
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lol yes you do. i enjoy your roms keep them coming!!! = D
Not more takers? ok well i have 3 more spots if anyone wants in!
Well, I feel that XDA has given a lot to me since I became addicted to Android and I feel like giving back to the community. I want to offer free hosting to the devs here for their ROMs and kernels. I have several sites that I own and several hosts as well as a dedicated server here at home on its own dedicated line. Speeds for the server I own are 50 Mbps down and 30 Mbps up. The hosts that I have are around 10 Mbps up and down. I'll even allow devs to run their own site on a subdomain from my site unless you want to purchase your own domain. Please feel free to PM me if you are interested!
I'd like to duplicate the offer. I'd be happy to mirror ROMs, kernels, themes, whatever, and sites are fine. I have one 150GB unlimited-bandwidth GoDaddy account, so it ma or may not be as good as the OP, but if you want several mirrors it might help. Also, if you want to get your ROM/kernel/theme onto the dedicated Android ROM index on the server, just PM me. I have the pages for the Inc and EVO right now, with every other rooted phone soon and tablets and WinMo phones after that.
Look here for more information on this topic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10887615
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I'd like to duplicate the offer. I'd be happy to mirror ROMs, kernels, themes, whatever, and sites are fine. I have one 150GB unlimited-bandwidth GoDaddy account, so it ma or may not be as good as the OP, but if you want several mirrors it might help. Also, if you want to get your ROM/kernel/theme onto the dedicated Android ROM index on the server, just PM me. I have the pages for the Inc and EVO right now, with every other rooted phone soon and tablets and WinMo phones after that.
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Look here for more information on this topic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10887615
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Yup. Cody is right. You can not use a GoDaddy account for file sharing unless you are on a dedicated server.
We have a space available as well. Check signature to see site.
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Apparently no one reads or listens to what happens. haha.
i will duplicate this offer too
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Apparently no one reads or listens to what happens. haha.
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Yup, they like to be in denial.
Edited - problem solved for now. Just bought more bandwidth. Hopefully, that will last.
How long do you have and what is the next level of bandwidth cost?
Just tell me about another free server and how I can transfer all my crap there. I don't know how long I have. I just got their notice.
Just thought I'd throw this out there but it sounds you should sell some add space. It is a great site and the traffic is only going to increase, especially once you get all the "how too's" posted. Then you'll get return "business". You could finally make a little $ for your time and effort. Good job, keep up the good work. In the meantime, I'll figure out how to make a donation using paypal and hope others follow my example.
Sorry, I don't have any information for you on a different web hosting service.
How do I "sell" ad space?
Ya, the first day of launch it got 500 people visiting it. It's increasing daily. I basically used up my monthly bandwidth limit in less than a week's time. And my website doesn't even show up on google yet.
Check this out. I found it after a quick google search. There were tons of others but this one was very infirmative and offered several different methods of how to do it. Think about who your perspective clients are and I believe that your site will sell itself. Show them the numbers and make it attractive for those that get in on the ground level. Then as it gets more traffic you can change your method of billing or charge more, or even have some length to your contracts. Check this out:
http://www.websitetoad.com/sell-advertising-space.htm
If this is not appropriate to post this link please delete it.
Just bought more bandwidth. Hopefully, this will last.
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Just bought more bandwidth. Hopefully, this will last.
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Put up a PayPal donate button on the site. I am sure people will share the love.
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Put up a PayPal donate button on the site. I am sure people will share the love.
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It's there - he's got it at the bottom of "Start Here".
Just donated - that site is a really big help to direct users to the usual questions that come up.
I dont know about you guys, but seriously.. all the ad crap associated with the normal download sites is getting ridiculous. Its as easy as a few clicks to make a torrent and we could seed these things at ridiculous speeds.
If there is a reason we are using these other BS sites, that's fine.. I guess I just don't know what that reason might be
Money I would say.
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Yeah tiredness would be a awesome way to distro but yep I think its the advertising money
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Problem with torrents is versions... everyone would be sharing old versions... Simpler fix would be getting devs sponserships.... A dev could get sponsered by a site like engadget and have a article-like post to display links to the file on engadget. An xda thread would then follow it with links but it would have to link to the article not the file, which could be sketchy with xda rules... Which means beginner devs would be left out unfortunately. But places like file uploading sites cannot watch every upload, so they cannot police the uploads themselves. So little guys will have to pay for server space until recognized, and they get picked up by a sponsor...
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Problem with torrents is versions... everyone would be sharing old versions... Simpler fix would be getting devs sponserships.... A dev could get sponsered by a site like engadget and have a article-like post to display links to the file on engadget. An xda thread would then follow it with links but it would have to link to the article not the file, which could be sketchy with xda rules... Which means beginner devs would be left out unfortunately. But places like file uploading sites cannot watch every upload, so they cannot police the uploads themselves. So little guys will have to pay for server space until recognized, and they get picked up by a sponsor...
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I don't know if different versions would be that problematic. Sure, older versions would still be out there, but if a post was created that always contained the latest torrents for the latest roms, then the only people who would be getting old versions would be people leeching from outside of XDA.
I was thinking about keeping an updated copy of all roms, and then creating torrent links, seeded by me for others to DL and share. Of course I will check with the Devs first.
However, the problem with the system now, is even I, an accomplished programmer and highly skilled on the internet, am having problems figuring out at times which link is the correct and real download link. These free share sites are so full of garbage ads and trick links to get you click on everything BUT the actual DL link. Once you have successfully navigated the shark filled waters and obtained your file, it downloads at a snails pace.
It's just an idea, and obviously would need some collaboration and planning to work well for all involved
Would this be on a private tracker? Seems that would be easy for people to add malicious content and upload it then have it spread all over the place if it's not on a private and secure tracker.
I guess the .torrent files could just be posted in the threads as the download links are now to keep people who aren't actively seeking something like this away. I'm just picturing all of this going out on tpb or something and people not having a clue ruining their phones and spreading malicious content. But I guess there's no reason that couldn't be happening already.
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Would this be on a private tracker? Seems that would be easy for people to add malicious content and upload it then have it spread all over the place if it's not on a private and secure tracker.
I guess the .torrent files could just be posted in the threads as the download links are now to keep people who aren't actively seeking something like this away. I'm just picturing all of this going out on tpb or something and people not having a clue ruining their phones and spreading malicious content. But I guess there's no reason that couldn't be happening already.
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there is nothing that prevents some yahoo from coming onto xda, grabbing a file without reading anything, and then bricking his device. the "tracker" would simply be whatever stickied post we have that has the links to the torrents. If I were hosting the torrents links, I would just provide them (the torrent files) via my dropbox. the only people who would even be leeching and seeding would be those people who got the link from that post, which would also link to the roms OP that contains the instructions, should people want/need them.
The only issue with this method is the slow start. I have 5MB up stream, but if 100 people hit that all at the same time, it would slow to a crawl, I would have to limit my seeds to 2 or 3, and speeds would suffer until we had a good base (would only take a few hours). But after that, speeds on the torrent would be plenty fast to support <5 min DL times
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there is nothing that prevents some yahoo from coming onto xda, grabbing a file without reading anything, and then bricking his device.
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True. And there's nothing stopping someone grabbing the file, modifying it with malicious content and uploading it to a public torrent site either. That's why I said it could be already happening.
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the "tracker" would simply be whatever stickied post we have that has the links to the torrents. If I were hosting the torrents links, I would just provide them (the torrent files) via my dropbox. the only people who would even be leeching and seeding would be those people who got the link from that post, which would also link to the roms OP that contains the instructions, should people want/need them.
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For torrents to work there has to be a hosting tracker. That's how everyone gets connected, via the tracker that facilitates it all and hosts the original .torrent file. It's not just simply where the .torrent file lives to be downloaded from, it is software that tracks who is trying to connect, who has what pieces of the file, who is requesting them, etc... it's what makes Bitorrent work. Without it no one can connect to each other. So if you simply make a .torrent file and give it to people via dropbox nothing will happen since it's not being hosted on a tracker. If you look at your torrent client when you've got something loaded you'll see there's a column for what tracker it's on. If you try to open a .torrent file that is no longer being hosted on a tracker you will get an error.
There's many sites that have trackers, some public where anyone can download the torrent and some private where you have to be member to download and some even more private where whenever you download the torrent your personal passkey is embedded/added to it so that it is affiliated with your account. Sites that track user's share ratio do that.
So there is the issue of what tracker is to be used on what site? If it's on a public site then that torrent is out there for the whole world with no documentation which is probably not that good of an idea. If it's on a private site then people have to register, in which case perhaps xda or an xda member might want to set up a tracker site just for Android ROMs and such.
There is a way to set up your own tracker but I've never looked into it much so I don't know if the only access is to those who actually have the torrent file or if the file is listed somewhere and available publicly.
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The only issue with this method is the slow start. I have 5MB up stream, but if 100 people hit that all at the same time, it would slow to a crawl, I would have to limit my seeds to 2 or 3, and speeds would suffer until we had a good base (would only take a few hours). But after that, speeds on the torrent would be plenty fast to support <5 min DL times
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The reason torrents are slow when they start is because there is only one person with the entire file. As the pieces flow out to the "100" leechers they will begin sharing with each other. Bitorrent is written so that the original seeder gives out different pieces to different people so that then they can continue sharing amongst each other. So in theory, the original seeder should only have to give out exactly one full copy of the file and the rest of the work is done by the swarm.
As I understand it you shouldn't have to limit your seeds that much, clients are written to know how to handle it, and the more people you give different pieces to the more they can share with each other which is what really gets the speeds going. There's also superseed mode if you are the original seeder, which at this time I can't remember how that makes a difference since it's been a long time since I've used it.
You should, however, cap your upload speed to a little below capacity, although this is usually done to help get better download speeds. Can't explain why off the top of my head but it has to do with keeping the pipeline open for the two way traffic.
This just popped in my head today trying to download some ROMs and things with slow server connections.
I see torrents as only being a good thing assuming enough people are actually seeding the file. Hell, torrent it as a directory with a zip and the instructions in a text file. Also posting it with a version/date would be a good idea too.
Why is this a good thing? Well there is so much illegal content on torrent sites that it would be nice to see it used for other legitimate purposes besides indie albums and Linux ISO files. It's OUR job to try to keep it legitimate.
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You should, however, cap your upload speed to a little below capacity, although this is usually done to help get better download speeds. Can't explain why off the top of my head but it has to do with keeping the pipeline open for the two way traffic.
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When you download a file it sends packets, and before it can transmit the next one it has to verify that you actually received the previous one. If the upload is maxed out it can't do that as fast as normal so it retards your download speed.
My advice to everyone is to look at your network traffic upload when downloading a large file, then cap it to just below whatever it's peaking at.
I'm all for the idea of using torrents for ROM downloads. I personally have a NAS holding my downloads, so once seeding I'd have the ROM up 24/7.
I don't like public sites but I'm sure no one in here has an issue with signing up for a free private one. Best solution would be XDA as the tracker so that its all internal, but not sure they'd go for that.
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and how exactly would the devs track their downloads? Most devs only continue to release ROMs if there is interest.
This has been talked about before, and the devs are against it. I think less people use torrents than you think.
XDA could use magnet links as the tracker (much as TPB is doing now.)
As far as interest, you can see it in the ROM threads when there are 50 someodd pages for one ROM, and three for another. You could even put in an (opt in) anonymous tracker app that reports usage statistics and/or thank them for the ROM on the original post.
I've always had this idea also and Magnet links would be great. This idea once again popped into my head when I was downloading Newts Senseless ICS that the other guy (forget his name) has been updating. I downloaded it on my phone over wifi and it literallly took about 45 minutes to download because it was capped since I had a free account on the hosting site.
Another great perk of using torrents would be you wouldn't have to wait for the uploader to finish uploading to the site so people can start downloading, and in the rare case the upload screws up everyone doesn't have to wait hours once again for the file to be re-uploaded. Also it's less bandwidth used since there isn't a central server.
So if some users wanted to start this but the devs wanted their own hosting, would the devs get angry at others hosting their ROMs in torrents? I think if we want to test this out it'd be worthwhile. Then if it works well, devs can start if they wish. Worst case scenario we have multiple download sources.
Count me in for trials if someone picks a tracker.
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So if some users wanted to start this but the devs wanted their own hosting, would the devs get angry at others hosting their ROMs in torrents? I think if we want to test this out it'd be worthwhile. Then if it works well, devs can start if they wish. Worst case scenario we have multiple download sources.
Count me in for trials if someone picks a tracker.
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of course the devs would get pissed if you started torrenting their ROMs. Its their intellectual property.
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of course the devs would get pissed if you started torrenting their ROMs. Its their intellectual property.
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Torrenting != pirating. It's just a file sharing protocol.
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So if some users wanted to start this but the devs wanted their own hosting, would the devs get angry at others hosting their ROMs in torrents? I think if we want to test this out it'd be worthwhile. Then if it works well, devs can start if they wish. Worst case scenario we have multiple download sources.
Count me in for trials if someone picks a tracker.
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Torrenting != pirating. It's just a file sharing protocol.
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nrfitchett (which gets autocorrected to bewitched ) was replying specifically to the post quoted above which suggests doing it against dev's wishes.
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Not against, in addition to. If they said "no you can't" then we shouldn't. However if they just didn't want to do it themselves but don't care if we do, then its fine.
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nrfitchett (which gets autocorrected to bewitched ) was replying specifically to the post quoted above which suggests doing it against dev's wishes.
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I didn't read it that way, especially considering the "intellectual property" bit. Regardless, this sort of setup would work best if the devs were seeding their releases themselves, so there would be no permission issues. The file obviously has to come from them initially, and they'd control what they put out there.
A private tracker would solve 99% of the concerns here, and is a common use case for trackers already. A limited number of users are allowed to post the torrents to the tracker, while all users are allowed to download.
Every time I'm dealing with broken links to megaupload or listening to people complain that uploads to the myriad file hosting services are slow or crapping out in the middle, I wonder yet again why someone hasn't set up a private tracker for rom distribution.
Exactly, and it would also prevent things like this from happening.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1163009
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This is a perfect example of why these things should have torrents. I had 2.3.5 WebTop on my system but deleted it because it was outdated. I didn't think every other copy on the internet would disappear as well
Oh well, hopefully he learns to keep backups now
I am now personally hosting the site but may have lost the original domain name. All Imperium services and ROMUpdater servers are now gone and the new site is very limited. I now no longer personally host any files and have found a third party service that pays me per download. The following projects are now dead:
WebTop enable devices TabletDock
WebTop enable devices CarPC
Remote Access ROM Development Service
Anything Galaxy Tab
Anything GS2
Anything G2X
Anything not Photon related
The Martian Imperium site is now closed and in the process of being purged. In all likelihood there will be no new website and unless somebody here has a copy, all the files will disappear as well. iPage was the cheapest host I could find for the bandwidth users were pulling (500GB-1TB a month and over 1000 DL's a day). In addition to my own work, I was hosting all the SBF's, some high demand older ROMs and kernels, root-unlock-relock and other Photon related files.
I looked at alternate places to host but Mediafire would cost almost ten times as much and dropbox almost three times as much just to host files. I even covered the site in ads to help cover expenses with no real success. The core factor was that my wife and I went over the receipts yesterday and I have spent something like $1000USD this year in equipment and hosting. If I had received a $0.01 donation (after paypal takes it's cut) for every unique download I actually would have made money and been able to continue development. There were many things I had planned to release this year but as it stands I am leaving development and guide writing.
To those that have donated to me in the past I'm very sorry about this and will return your donations if you would like.
Thank you for the explanation, and all you've done. The sad fact is most don't send donations. Over the years that I've been on xda, I've only done it a half dozen times. I'm sure I should have done it more. I know development won't get you rich, but it shouldn't cost you. Thanks again for all you've done. Webtop and imperium are the ****!
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What started all this was a "We need to have a talk" email from my host. They had been very forgiving about the bandwidth usage but had enough and it was upgrade to business class service or leave. Meanwhile this is what I was working....
Remote Access Development Services. It's only a proof of concept at this stage but it's free to any dev that wants it.
I actually might be able to help you out if you think you can keep it below a TB a month.
Let me know and Ill go back and check my usage to see how much bandwidth I have left over. I think I get 2 TB a month and I dont believe Im quite using one.
I can help you out in the hosting department. My hosting is unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth per month. I use IX web hosting. If you would like, I'll throw your files up on my site so that anyone that needs them and get them... I can upload them and you can hotlink to them...
Let me know... I'm not able to donate $$$ (due to the fact that i don't have much myself) but I can donate space and bandwidth. The Photon 4G needs good developers, and I'd hate to see you go...
phqchevys said:
I can help you out in the hosting department. My hosting is unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth per month. I use IX web hosting. If you would like, I'll throw your files up on my site so that anyone that needs them and get them... I can upload them and you can hotlink to them...
Let me know... I'm not able to donate $$$ (due to the fact that i don't have much myself) but I can donate space and bandwidth. The Photon 4G needs good developers, and I'd hate to see you go...
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Most unlimited hosting plans. Will freak out after a tb a month.
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Just trying to help out...
But, you might want to check out there policies. There unlimited is truly unlimited... according to their TOS. That's why I went with them. Currently I have 5.91GB of used space and 518GB of bandwidth used this month... about average for me...
That's some BS right there. I've never used any of your work, but I've seen you around. (I have an Electrify, I can't use a lot of Photon stuff. Plus it's locked... 2.3.5.)
Seems like there should be a way, in this day and age, to croudsource the files somehow. Multiple dropboxes/sugar syncs/box.nets, or a torrent with a bunch of us hosting all the files. In fact if you can get just a few people with fast Internet at home to leave their BitTorrent client running, seeding your torrent, people could get that just as fast as they could from direct download. Linux uses BitTorrent, couldn't you do something like that? Hell, I only have 1.5MBit DSL, which lets me upload about 30kB/s before web browsing starts to lag, but I'd help seed. I don't have a Photon, but Electrify development kind of depends on Photon development.
Best of luck to you.
To All,
I appreciate the offers for file hosting but as the number of projects increase so would the bandwidth. The main source for the, to be honest, leeching is from locations outside xda. For example, China is responsible for a very large portion of it and have found hotlinking of my files in a couple of sites.
I was able to sell of some things today and have buyers lined up for others. I may be able to continue but at a much slower rate and will have to kill a number of pending projects.
I have found a possible solution but have had to kill a number of services. It also involves a very limited access website and file hosting has been moved to a service suggest to me by one of my users in Russia. I don't know how well this will work out as I will have to remove the update service from all future releases.
Please try the new site and let me know if it works. For now it's just a copy of the old site with a bunch of broken stuff. Unlike the old site, live site updates are now impossible and can only handle a limited number of connections.
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That's some BS right there. I've never used any of your work, but I've seen you around. (I have an Electrify, I can't use a lot of Photon stuff. Plus it's locked... 2.3.5.)
Seems like there should be a way, in this day and age, to croudsource the files somehow. Multiple dropboxes/sugar syncs/box.nets, or a torrent with a bunch of us hosting all the files. In fact if you can get just a few people with fast Internet at home to leave their BitTorrent client running, seeding your torrent, people could get that just as fast as they could from direct download. Linux uses BitTorrent, couldn't you do something like that? Hell, I only have 1.5MBit DSL, which lets me upload about 30kB/s before web browsing starts to lag, but I'd help seed. I don't have a Photon, but Electrify development kind of depends on Photon development.
Best of luck to you.
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You can say it's BS but there were a lot of things on the site the most free services do not allow. In addition to the site itself it had live support chat, a forum, an update server (think ROM Manager) as well as the entire Photon file archive and my own projects.
Multiple file hosting accounts makes file management a job unto itself. Torrents have been tried before with very little success.
Like I mentioned above, I have found a possible solution that may or may not work out but have had to kill a number of services.
I will be more than happy to do something as simple as setting you up a ftp server. You would have full access to your personal "ftp folder" on my hosting server... If interested, PM me and ill set it up...
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Lokifish Marz said:
To those that have donated to me in the past I'm very sorry about this and will return your donations if you would like.
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I appreciate the offer but would consider it boorish to take you up on it.
Frankly, I think it's unnecessary for you to even consider making the offer, but not surprising given the nature of your efforts to help and support this community.
Let's just say that this is taking the concept of giving back to others a little too far.
I start my new job this Monday and once my money flows, I'll start donating to those who deserve it, i feel bad but yea glad to see your still around.
i have most of the same files (old ones at least) hosted on holylivingfuck.com in my sig, i do however have a new host (seperate from hlf) which ill be uploaidng all my copies onto as well. if you could be so kind as to update the guide with the links ill be sending you that would be awesome
trying to make sure that we dont have any lost files due to domains etc
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I am now personally hosting the site but may have lost the original domain name. All Imperium services and ROMUpdater servers are now gone and the new site is very limited. I now no longer personally host any files and have found a third party service that pays me per download. The following projects are now dead:
WebTop enable devices TabletDock
WebTop enable devices CarPC
Remote Access ROM Development Service
Anything Galaxy Tab
Anything GS2
Anything G2X
Anything not Photon related
The Martian Imperium site is now closed and in the process of being purged. In all likelihood there will be no new website and unless somebody here has a copy, all the files will disappear as well. iPage was the cheapest host I could find for the bandwidth users were pulling (500GB-1TB a month and over 1000 DL's a day). In addition to my own work, I was hosting all the SBF's, some high demand older ROMs and kernels, root-unlock-relock and other Photon related files.
I looked at alternate places to host but Mediafire would cost almost ten times as much and dropbox almost three times as much just to host files. I even covered the site in ads to help cover expenses with no real success. The core factor was that my wife and I went over the receipts yesterday and I have spent something like $1000USD this year in equipment and hosting. If I had received a $0.01 donation (after paypal takes it's cut) for every unique download I actually would have made money and been able to continue development. There were many things I had planned to release this year but as it stands I am leaving development and guide writing.
To those that have donated to me in the past I'm very sorry about this and will return your donations if you would like.
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Damn unfortunate for the Photon community if we lose you. Definitely one of the very helpful devs out there. I do understand what you mean...lots of people like to use the work...not many understand what it costs you in time and energy, not to mention cash money. Best of luck to ya!