Ask HN: Best way to distribute multi-GB dataset?

13 pointsby ggoodale13 anni fa9 comments

I'm in the process of shutting down Word2[1], an MMO scrabble-like word game we built for Node Knockout back in 2010. The game's world is amazing - ~265MM tiles, ~123MM played words, over 1MM unique players. Once all personally identifiable information has been removed, I'd like to provide it to interested parties to play with. The clean dataset will be ~15GB compressed - what's the preferred way to share multi-GB files these days? Bittorrent, S3 (probably Requester Pays unless there's another option with manageable costs), or something else? Suggestions welcome.

[1] http://massivelyfun.com/saying-goodbye/

4 comments

markcarlson13 anni fa

http://archiveteam.org

ggoodale13 anni fa

Rad! Haven't run across Archive Team before. Looking into them now.

willmacdonald13 anni fa

Bittorrent Sync

logn13 anni fa

Sourceforge

ggoodale13 anni fa

Interesting - hadn't considered that possibility. Thanks! I'll look into it.

0x006A13 anni fa

Bittorrent

ggoodale13 anni fa

Seems reasonable, though given the size of the file I'm probably going to have to host it somewhere for seeding purposes rather than just parking it on my home fileserver (yay Comcast monopoly in my area).

davidbanham13 anni fa

How about a torrent hosted on s3?

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.htm...

ggoodale13 anni fa

Looks like that only works for 5GB files or less, which is a shame.