Create Your Own BitTorrent Blog With Diferior
Written by Ernesto on December 15, 2007Diferior makes it easy for everyone to start a BitTorrent or filesharing community, and more. It is easy to customize and can be used as a blog, a forum, a simple http downloads system, a public or private BitTorrent tracker, or all of these features at once.
Are you someone that always wanted to have your very own BitTorrent tracker? Here’s your chance, with Diferior it is a piece of cake. In fact, it is as easy as setting up any other blogging platform or CMS.
Diferior has an online installer which makes it fairly easy to setup, even for complete novices. When it’s installed there are several options to customize it to your own needs. Diferior has a built in private BitTorrent tracker where users can post torrents and there is also an option to allow public torrents and http downloads.
Povilas Musteikis, the developer of Diferior, told TorrentFreak that Diferior started out as a personal project that got a little out of hand. “The whole “blog-filesharing” concept received very positive feedback from site visitors and I started receiving e-mails from people interested in what CMS I was running.” So, he decided to make it available to the public.
The script is released under a GPL license and Povilas hopes that it will appeal to both advanced users and people who are new to BitTorrent. “I am a linux user and I support OpenSource community,” he said, “for once, instead of only taking, I decided to do some giving and release the script under GPL, so everybody can benefit. Hopefully Diferior will be appealing to both casual and hardcore users. It is easy to install and maintain, but also has a lot of potential under the hood.”
Diferior runs fine as long as your webserver or hosting plan meets the requirements. One of the things you need is ssh/gcc access, otherwise you cannot get the XBT tracker backend running, instructions are included in the Diferior download package. Unfortunately, not all webhosting companies like BitTorrent. Earlier this year we wrote about Hostgator who forbids their customer to host .torrent files, let alone let them host a tracker.
Povilas told us that Diferior will have its own BitTorrent tracker in the future as well as several other improvements. “I plan to constantly add new functionality, based on user feedback and requests. At the moment Diferior is very multi-purpose, with well developed blogging, file sharing and community capabilities. I haven’t put emphasis on any of these functions yet, but I hope to evolve them independently, judging by community demand.”
Themes for Diferior are based on the widely used smarty template engine. Currently there is only one theme available but no doubt more themes will be developed soon.
The script has an impressive feature list for an initial release, to name a few:
There are really too many features to list them all here, you should definitely check it out if you’re interested in this multi functional CMS. It makes sharing even more easy and fun.
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Sounds cool
Great…now how long before the feds shut it down? :/
Well, I’ll enjoy it while it lasts. Thanks.
Oh, I forgot to add:
Looks like a good tbsource/TBDev.net/TorrentStrike replacement. :D
[quote]Great…now how long before the feds shut it down? [/quote]
Developing bittorrent tracker software isn’t a crime, even in the most backwards of countries such as America.
Where can we find a list of hosting companies that will allow you to install and run this?
I have webspace and hosting through a friend… i just don’t know how to set this stuff up :P
oh never mind instructions are in the zip… yea yea RTFA
I have webspace and a legitimate hosting bandwidth, I just don’t know how to set this stuff up…. :P?
Diferior has an online installer which makes it fairly easy to setup, even for complete novices.
i’ve been looking for something like this. thnx =D
Looks pretty good, but I’m still looking forward to xbtit.
In response to the host question - try prq.se, shinjuru.com, or exmasters.com. All have gotten high reviews from what I have read.
~ IvIaS
French toast > all of the above.
Good development for the file-sharing community as a whole, very happy to read about it. Thanks for the article. :)
Is it time to go fishing already?? LoL this is going to be interesting…
What does this program do in the area of logging IP adresses and tracking of that?
IP addresses are being logged and can be viewed via WEB interface, but I will add ’stealth’ (/’anonymous’) mode in later versions.
aren’t there ways to ‘hide’ what your up-downloading?
really interesting! i wonder if this platform will overcome the mighty Tb.DEV
Great initiative UnrealX, I love the idea of an integrated torrent CMS.
The specs don’t mention seeding torrents, will you support that?
Maybe we could integrate this with the free bittorrent upload & seeding service we run at http://www.podmailing.com/
[quote comment="239906"]Great initiative UnrealX, I love the idea of an integrated torrent CMS.
The specs don’t mention seeding torrents, will you support that?
Maybe we could integrate this with the free bittorrent upload & seeding service we run at http://www.podmailing.com//quote
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look at the little fishies bite.
Like it a lot. Wish I had time, but it’s nice to know it’s there for when I do get time.
please integrate your frontend with opentracker
http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/
this is the best tracker out there!!! REAL good!
thanks!
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