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Why? This would work... until the surprise bandwidth bill comes in.You could just do this for free using dropbox though, or another less expensive object storage.

https://sites.google.com/site/torrenttricks/use-dropbox-as-a...




Dropbox is going to cut you off much faster than S3 if you're attempting to serve torrents from them.


I've heard of dropbox cutting off high traffic files a couple of times, anyone have the specifics on what constitutes high traffic though?


https://www.dropbox.com/help/4204/en

"For Basic accounts, the total amount of traffic that all of your links together can generate without getting banned is 20 GB per day. For Pro and Business accounts, the limit is 200 GB per day."


So $2.50 worth of S3 outbound transfer (for personal accounts).




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