
Grab the Public IP address from the Lightsail console and connect using your preferred terminal emulator. Now that we’ve assigned a static public IP address and opened port 8112, we can now connect to the instance and continue the setup. Lightsail is an AWS product that aims to compete with the likes of DigitalOcean, when it comes to fixed prices per-month of virtual private servers.

Head to the AWS Lightsail console and spin up a Lightsail instance. To sign up for an account you can click here. AWS is one of the largest providers of cloud computing on the market. If you’re new to AWS, you’ll need to sign up for an account.
#HOW TO USE TORRENT FILES 2018 DOWNLOAD#
We’ll also be able to add torrent files and view download progress using the web UI. We’re going to use Deluge to download files and MobaXterm to transfer them to a local computer. Below, I’m going to show you how you can utilize AWS Lightsail to host a dedicated BitTorrent server.

There are many other pros (and some cons) to using BitTorrent, however that’s what this articles is about. Their game client allows players to download off of their peers instead of directly from Blizzard’s content delivery network, saving Blizzard a tonne of money in data transfer costs. Blizzard Entertainment (for example) use BitTorrent protocol to reduce the cost of delivering game updates to players. While many people associate BitTorrent with the sharing of illegal content such as pirated Movies/TV Shows, the legitimate uses for the protocol should not be ignored. BitTorrent is a decentralized file transfer protocol that allows for downloaded data to be shared between peers, meaning there is less load on the originating content host.
