Add webseeds to the torrents

[Justin2026]

I found no general area for feedback so I am posting it here.

You can add "web" seeds to torrents that can speed up downloads for torrent users. It is as simple as specifying the direct download URL when creating the torrent.

 

[t.lamprecht]

Thanks for your suggestion, it'd be feasible for us from a technical POV. But one thing that I see as slight advantage from an infrastructure POV: I like that torrents are rather independent of our CDN, as then one doesn't put any load at all on the CDN when using torrents.

But, we already have an seeder that always seeds the ISO too, we could add some more of those at sites where we got enough bandwidth (or not that much load) and thus provide a few more "always on" seeders from our side. Would that help your use case or limitations you run into? If not, it'd be nice to get a bit more infos here to see what other options are or if defining webseeds indeed make sense for other reasons too.