Aria2 – download utility (bittorrent, http and some other stuffs)

Posted by mkhairul - September 13, 2007 at 05:09:07 am - No Comments

Categories: Tips, blog

The Day The Server Went Down..

Due to excessive use, people handing out accounts to others and such, my friend’s torrenflux causes his server to use tremendous amounts of resources which evidently leads to its crash. A perl program that torrentflux runs hogs all the resources, I can’t remember from the back of my head the name of the program but I’m pretty sure its a perl program. Some kind of a flaw in the program (not perl, mind you). The crash was unacceptable because it was a shared hosting.

So anyway, those were the good old days where I dont have to worry about downloading torrents and stuff, just put it in torrentflux and a couple of hours it is done. I tried to relive the experience, I googled and wikied all that I can to find, a program that are similar to torrentflux (without the need for a root access), but found none. ctorrent, rtorrent is nice and all but there’s a problem that I encountered, whether it needs some sort of library, dependency and some other stuff, in the end it requires root access to install these kind of things.

A few months I endured the torture of using utorrent. Not because the program bad, but because streamyx is limiting the bandwidth for torrent. As I had discuss in Streamyx O’ Pain.

Alternative

While I was searching for a nice flash image gallery apart from fig and flash gallery (it doens’t provide the source ), I found aria2 – The high speed download utility. Looks interesting, I decided to check it out. Ok the installation was simple. Apart from setting configure’s –prefix.

sh ./configure --prefix=/home/yourfolder

I will create a bin folder inside /home/yourfolder and there’s aria2c program in there. That’s all you need to do. Use the instructions and all is ready to go. Oh yeah, make sure you run it on servers that are connected to the backbone for example servers that are in the datacenter or using a leased line. Away from the evil traffic shaping.

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