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Originally Posted by cheekymonk3y

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.

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