Does torrent tracking take bandwidth?
 

i know that torrent tracking puts load on the server...
but does it take up bandwidth as well?
i mean,
if some one share's 1 Gb of files through a tracker on my board, does the 1 Gb go through my band width limit?
will the 1 GB be in my bandwidth?

it does take up bandwidth, and usually more than the size of the file if you are downloading it as well, thats just the nature of torrents. If your host allows torrents, please share because my current host nearly booted us when we set up a server-side torrent installation. And now im looking for a new one.

Id say it would take up more then a ususal site :|

thats sad :(..
cause i only have only a limited amount of bandwidth...
and i dont want to loose all of it in torrents..:(

That doesn't make sense to me. The actual file doesn't go thru the tracker, the clients just report stats to the tracker.
Yes, it takes some additional bandwidth thruput, but for a small private tracker, you can run it right thru your vb in php.

I don't mean you can be demonoid, but if its just for a smallish forum, check out VBTT

if you are worried about bandwidth and such, check my last post in this thread

http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthre...1#post10783891

the only thing passing thru your site is the torrent file.
You do not use the actual file size amounts, so were talking a file < 100kb.
now how many times its read is the way you'll use the b/w
if you have tons of peers then you can expect more http requests on that .torrent file during scrape/announce

You can figure that for every peer on the tracker, they are 'announcing' to your site about twice an hour (that is your announce time and it set by you, but usually about 30 minutes) and then for every torrent that they keep in their bittorrent client, they will need to 'scrape' every so often also. As far as how much extra bandwidth it takes, I have no idea. I run a fairly active forum and also a tracker. My forum has about 300 active users (per 15 minute cookie timeout) and about 10,000 peers average. If I take a look at my apache status, I'd say about 70-80% of the processes going on are tracker related. But, this all depends on how many torrents/peers/active users you have.