Diferior, an Easy to Use BitTorrent CMS
Written by Ernesto on March 08, 2008Setting up a (private or public) BitTorrent tracker may sound hard to some, but it isn’t. With Diferior, you are only a few clicks away from being the proud owner of a torrent site, private or public. That’s not all, the content management system also supports FTP and http downloads and comes with a blog and forums.
Since the first beta release in December, over one thousand people have tried Diferior already, and many were impressed by the ease of use. It is not much harder to setup that the average blog or CMS software.
One of the downsides of the first beta was that it only worked with a modified version of the XBTT tracker. However, the latest release is no longer a beta, and it comes with several tracker alternatives. Diferior has now a built in php tracker, which requires no configuration and works out of the box. The downside is that it can only handle a couple of thousand peers, because it uses quite a lot of resources.
People who want to be able to track more peers should go for the bundled XBTT tracker, which is really fast, but requires GCC and SSH access which some hosting accounts don’t offer. It can handle tens of thousands peers though, without breaking a sweat.
For those who don’t want to run their own tracker, there’s also external scrape support, which allows use with trackers from The Pirate Bay, or any other open tracker. Ratio enforcement will not work in this case of course.
We asked Povilas Musteikis, the developer of Diferior, what the most significant improvements are compared to the previous release, he told us: “Since Diferior is a multi-purpose CMS, improvements address various issues for various types of websites. I did not focus solely on, say, blogging system or torrents.”
Indeed, Diferior is more than a BitTorrent tracker, it’s also a blog, and it even has forums which now support private messaging as well. The default theme now comes with four color schemes, but since the themes are based on the widely used smarty template engine, creating your own is relatively easy.
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 running a BitTorrent tracker more easy and fun.
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cool…
Hmm
Looks really cool, wonder why I haven’t head about it before :P
Been looking for something like this! Sounds sweet!
yawn
Sweet
Looks interesting, I do recommend people use XBT though, it handles FAR more peers.
Would love to run my own tracker… esp since I live in Sweden… and have PHP programming experience.
The thing is, dont know where to find a host… and how much trouble i can get for doing it.. an article on that would be really helpful to people like me. Anyone else reading this too can of course recommend/suggest ideas or links where I can read up on it.
Thanks!
Where’s opentracker? That what you should use.
“With Diferior, you are only a few clicks away from being the proud owner of a torrent site”
Yawn…. like there is a need for more torrent sites?!?
If you can’t find what you are looking for on the 10-15 major players of BT index sites, you are a total n00b with no hope. Best to quit while you are ahead.
[quote comment="307055"]“With Diferior, you are only a few clicks away from being the proud owner of a torrent site”
Yawn…. like there is a need for more torrent sites?!?
If you can’t find what you are looking for on the 10-15 major players of BT index sites, you are a total n00b with no hope. Best to quit while you are ahead.[/quote]
he meant trackers not indexing sites … duh! and trackers are always welcome and needed
[quote comment="307055"]“With Diferior, you are only a few clicks away from being the proud owner of a torrent site”
Yawn…. like there is a need for more torrent sites?!?
If you can’t find what you are looking for on the 10-15 major players of BT index sites, you are a total n00b with no hope. Best to quit while you are ahead.[/quote]
It’s always amusing when noobs call others a noob.
If all you’re using and relying on is the 10-15 major players of BT index sites, then YOU are a total n00b with no hope. The real gold is found among the myriad small and unknown (at least to you) BT sites. More of those are always welcome.
I think this kind of thing is a great idea and should be encouraged, because with the amount of file sharing aps going down or getting taken over, there’s a need for ongoing replacements.
But what about bandwidth costs, that’s what concerns me. Who can or will absorb those costs?
Perhaps if many people were doing it, costs could be shared or absorbed by ISPs? I don’t understand it much.
I also agree that this is a good idea, if they can trim down to be less painful on the resources than many more home grown trackers can begin to exist and getting rare or unknown content will become easier! At least ideally
[quote comment="307055"]“With Diferior, you are only a few clicks away from being the proud owner of a torrent site”
Yawn…. like there is a need for more torrent sites?!?
If you can’t find what you are looking for on the 10-15 major players of BT index sites, you are a total n00b with no hope. Best to quit while you are ahead.[/quote]
Go die fag boy
why dont you all grow up jessssss
its took time and effort to make this looks good to me well done
^^ um, punctuation please?
NONE of this crap is easy to use due to it’s law skirting nature!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
I thought this site used to be about news. Seems every other entry over the last few days seems to be about promoting ones website.
Hmm, any free hosts that allow this script on their servers?
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