hobby project

CIO: "The little hobby project from Finland turned 20, rolled over the 3.0 milestone, and dominated almost everything from mobile devices to supercomputers."

Let’s start off by saying that running a reliable tracker with tens of thousands of peers is not something everyone is capable of.

It requires the right skills and expertise to keep everything running smoothly. Also, larger trackers such as PublicBitTorrent require a 1 Gbps connection, something not everyone has access to.

Stefan Koopmanschap has written about a hidden gem he discovered in PHP to help locate blocks of text that seem similar from one or more sources - similar_text.