Posted by Ben Barren on January 18, 2009 – 7:44 pm
Using Amazon's EC2 as a seedbox
Just back from a run but this is so kewl what Brett O’Connor has done with seeding torrents using Amazon EC2 - I’ve been checking out the different seedbox business models and players - where u basically lease torrents, via getting 3rd party “seedboxes” to get yer torrent files for u and upload in seconds/minutes the necessary ratio for u to keep your tracker membership (which can be really annoying) Check players such as Seedboxhosting.com and SeedM8.com
Seeboxhosting wont deliver : Throttled or capped upload and download speeds NOR Traffic shaping of any kind NOR Unresponsive customer service
P2P blog summarise : “Torrentflux is usually installed on so-called seedboxes - servers that are solely used for downloading and seeding torrents. Seedboxes cost anywhere between 30 and 300 dollars per month, depending on whether you’re talking about shared or dedicated servers and various bandwidth and disk space restrictions.” Anyway as Amazon is so cheap/performance based etc - why not get the world’s biggest etailer to download, seed and store the latest from Hollywood, games/film studios and record labels. Awesome.
EC2 + Bittorrent = Awesome.
Negatendo : “So then why not then move Bittorrent out of the home/office and into the cloud? This weekend I was able to do just that with great success. Using Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and TorrentFlux (a web-based Bittorrent manager which runs on top of Bit Tornado). I created a web-based, open-source Bittorrent “machine” that liberated my network and leveraged Amazon’s instead. I can access it from anywhere, uploading Torrent files from wherever, and manage them from my iPhone. I also pay only for what I use - which by my estimates will hopefully be less than $30 per month (That was a quick and not-so-thorough estimate. For some silly reason I didn’t account for the fact that the instance was probably going to have to be on all of the time. Once I gather some real data on how much it costs be sure and update this post. I agree it’s probably going to be over $75/month. Real data to follow.) And the best part? My ratio is maintained while my Left 4 Dead games speed along without any annoying lag.”
Typical Seedbox Deal Currently : "For every $6 you get 4 GB of disc space and 1 standard resource allocation quota (RAQ). Minimum plan is $18 = 12 GB of disc space & 3 resource allocation quotas(RAQs). Dual Core, 2 GB RAM Good plans to pump up your stats on private trackers, software not well suited to public trackers."
Posted by Ben Barren on January 14, 2009 – 1:22 pm
So it’s not all films + TV, there is “the cloud” after all, which is the new black. Every1 needs a xmpp cloud; So Birkin. And Amazon’s cloud is as interesting as anybodies, so when they invest in a ‘platform for the cloud‘ player being Engine Yard, that’s interesting via Cloud Computing Journal : “It describes it as a “platform for the cloud” aimed at programmers and system administrations who want to write scalable, manageable applications for the cloud and says it can be used to automate the cloud as well as for writing distributed real-time apps. Engine Yard claims it can “embrace the difference of many clouds” and automate processes and application management. Features include a standard XMPP infrastructure; a security and discovery agent to manage security policy; a process automation agent to orchestrate operational tasks involving both machines and people; a system provisioning registry so applications can be self-organizing; a federated design so apps can operate seamlessly and securely - sorta like e-mail; distributed auditing/logging; and distributed job control for operational awareness.”
I'm 3 of 8 True Blood AudioBooks down now onto Book 4 Dead to the World where Sookie + Eric 
Click y'all
On the other hand, if u r not into the Cloud, then maybe u’d prefer a bit of fangbanging or shapeshifting. If u want to cossie up to the half dead then The Costumer has the list required for a Sookie Stackhouse outfit, maybe for yer next Vampire party:
- Merlotte’s shirt
- Short black shorts
- Green apron
- Waitress notepad
- Natural makeup
- White sneakers
- Louisiana accent, excellent manners, Southern charm
- Vampire bite prosthetic (optional)
Gossip Girl S02_E15 Grab it ere. The King is Dead. Long Live the King.
Watch : New Zealand’s greatest Lord of The Ringsesque - fantasy + fighting : The Latest Legend of the Seeker episode S01E08
Listening to : Dead to the World, True Blood audiobook 4 (guess that will be on TV in 2011), these are awesome to run and drive to, mixed up with music and podcasts on the shuffle, thx again4that!
Chuck Bass : Well he stuffs it up again, Gossip Girl S02-E15′ere. And this is a good little riffin off and around Chuck Bass, blog.
Oh Chuck Bass is at it Again, He's so Silly Sometimes !
Posted by BB on December 20, 2008 – 12:11 pm
So it’s that last Saturday calm before XMAS. Strange feeling. Just watched the gettn award buzz Michelle Williams Wendy and Lucy, (watch it ere) kinda a smaller brooding female lead (that stays alive) version of Sean Penn’s Into the Wild, well in so far as its a Road Movie to Alaska.
My Random Saturday Reads.
Seeking Alpha - Internet Stock Report : “My DCF price target based on a WACC of 10% an a 3% terminal growth rate produces a price target of $65. Using a reasonable 12x EBITDA multiple (EBITDA growing 18% over next 3yrs) to my 2010 EBITDA estimate yields a price target of $63. My model has Amazon generating $2.10 in GAAP EPS in 2010, but let us be conservative and round that down to $2.00, then applying the current trading multiple of 30x to that figure would yield a price target of $60.”
The Economist think they have solved the science of gender attraction : “The correlation is with the genes of what is known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This region of the genome encodes part of the immune system. It turns out that one of the most important aspects of mate choice in mammals, humans included, is to make sure that your mate’s MHC is different from your own. Mixing up MHCs makes the immune system more effective. The MHC is also thought to act as a proxy for general outbreeding, with all the hybrid vigour that can bring. Fortunately, then, evolution has equipped mammals with the ability to detect by smell chemicals whose concentrations vary with differences in the MHC of the producer… Women, it seems, choose not the kind of smell they would like on a partner, or even one that might mask a nasty odour of their own, but rather something that matches their MHC. In other words, they are advertising their own scent.”
OK - I’m goin to get a cawfee at Balnarring - i’m waiting for The Wire Season 3 to leech as I have watched Seasons 1+2 again this week (and have S04-5 as well thx to mad men swap with @mnods, thx) Also watching Summer Heights High for first time (now its on HBO, im fascinated what Americans think of this show ? I’ve actually really enjoyed S01 Kath + Kim US version after first couple eps.. anyway i post 140 chars digress) As Dave Fincher says about his next film about a foodie starring Keanu : ““It’s really about the creative process. It’s truly an aromatic art-form, making food. I love that idea.””
