Comparison of BitTorrent tracker software
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The following is a list of notable software for running a BitTorrent tracker.
| Tracker | Programming Language | License | Operating System Support | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MonoTorrent[1] | C# | MIT | Linux, Mac, Windows | Uses Mono for cross-platform support (.NET) |
| Opentracker[2] | C | Beerware | FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, Solaris, Windows,… | Uses libowfat,[3] performs well even on embedded hardware. Only requirement is a POSIX compliant OS. |
| PeerTracker[4] | PHP | GPL | Cross-platform | Extremely lightweight and efficient BitTorrent tracker. Supports SQLite3, MySQL and soon PostgreSQL for storage. |
| PHPBTTracker[5] | PHP | GPLv2 | Cross-platform | A simple BitTorrent tracker which supports tracking basic statistics. Supports MySQL backend database. |
| RivetTracker[6] | PHP | GPLv2 | Cross-platform | Based on PHPBTTracker, it is a slightly more complicated but still simple to use BitTorrent tracker which supports tracking basic statistics. It has a more polished user interface than its predecessor which splits torrents up into pages and uses icons from the Tango Project. Supports MySQL backend database. Support for RSS 2.0 spec. |
| TBDev Tracker[7] | PHP | GPLv2 | Cross-platform | A fully featured torrent tracker originally based on the final version of TorrentBits. The user interface is very polished, and is used by many private tracker sites. |
| μTorrent[8] | C++ | Proprietary Freeware | Mac (Intel only), Windows / Wine | Does not have a web interface or list of hosted torrents; it is not designed for secure or large-scale application. |
| Vuze[9] | Java | GPL | Linux, Mac, Windows | Vuze (formerly Azureus) has a built in tracker. |
| XBT Tracker[10][11] | C++ | GPL | Linux and Windows | Uses MySQL for data storage, lightweight tracker |
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.monotorrent.com
- ^ http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/
- ^ http://www.fefe.de/libowfat/
- ^ http://code.google.com/p/peertracker/
- ^ http://dehacked.2y.net/BT/
- ^ http://www.rivetcode.com/software/rivettracker/
- ^ http://www.tbdev.net
- ^ http://www.utorrent.com/faq/features#faq15
- ^ http://azureus.sourceforge.net/faq.php#17
- ^ http://xbtt.sourceforge.net/tracker/
- ^ http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbtt/
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