Otherwise, you can simply use uTorrent's built-in tracker and upload it to a personal website. įor torrents you intend to share with everyone, you will also need to upload the torrent to a tracker site (such as ) with an appropriate title and description for others to find and download. In OpenBitTorrent's case, it will be and udp://:80/announce. It will look something like this: or udp://:1111.

If you want to use an external tracker such as OpenBitTorrent, obtain the announcer URL from the site. Fortunately, utorrent comes with a built-in tracker function that we will utilize for this guide. Please follow it first.Ī tracker is needed for all peers to connect to for a updated list of peers. This has already been covered in another guide. You will first need to install and optimize utorrent for maximum speed. The only requirement is a internet connection. You can share files privately within only people you choose, or publicly with anyone on the Internet. Except perhaps our web host, DreamHost - they offer a huge 50GB of space just for backups, along with their normal webspace so you can use it as a convenient file storage centre.Įnter Bittorrent - a very efficient peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing protocol to share your files with anyone, anywhere. But chances are your web host will not be too happy about it as their terms of service do not allow you to share resource intensive files. If you have a web hosting server, you can upload it to there. Or you can split the file in segments and upload it to a SkyDrive, RapidShare, MegaUpload or other file hosting server. Or you can take a risk and send it via MSN. So what other alternative is there? There's FTP. And MSN is not designed for sending such large files - just imagine if the file stalled at the 97% mark - You will need to resend the entire file! MSN's Shared Folders had some promise but it was later replaced by SkyDrive, which limits each file to 50MB, although it gives 25GB of space. MSN? Free media file hosts have some limits either in the maximum data you can download per day, or the constant nagging to buy their premium service. What are the options when you want to send a 4.3GB DVD folder to your family, relatives and friends? Rapidshare? Megaupload? Or. If youĭon't like this, please don't read any further. Use of this document, We will not be responsible for it. In real serious terms, if any corruption of data, hardware damage We will not be held responsible if thisĭocument causes your computer to explode or burst into flames. Proceed at your own risk! The information here is accurate to This article explains how to share large files with either your friends (privately) or with anyone (publicly) using BitTorrent and uTorrent, optionally using uTorrent's built in embedded tracker. Home > Articles > Creating a Torrent in uTorrent (Guide / Tutorial)Ĭreating a Torrent using uTorrent (Guide / Tutorial)

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