So if you haven't heard the term seedbox here's a quick explanation: basically a seedbox is a dedicated server that is used to seed or leech BitTorrent files on the net. The idea of running a seedbox interests me  not because I want to seed anything online but because each of my machines  currently have  BitTorrent software like uTorrent  or Azuerus  installed and it's a big hassle having to administrate these applications by going to the SmoothWall to configure port forwarding to each client every time I want to download something. (I refuse to trigger the BT ports through the router into my network so when I want to download BT files I manually configure forwarding).

By having a dedicated seedbox I could remove the BitTorrent applications from all of the devices on my network and force my users to use the seedbox for all BitTorrent activity. Additionally, I can monitor and report on all the BitTorrent activity.

So I decided to run TorrentFlux on my server. Problem is that TorrentFlux is a mySql/PHP application and I run a windows server. I found this guide online for setting up a WAMP server and it worked out good other than having to set the listening port to something other than 80 since IIS is using that. 

I have it running now and to this point I'm inpressed. There are some features that are missing that I'd like, such as the ability to select individual files in the torrent to download but all in all it meets my needs. I had to work through some hacks in order to get it to work properly (and some torrent files still don't work) but so far I am impressed.  

Developer Roger Martin created a really great OSS ASPNET project call Gallery Server Pro which provides a great little Content Management System (CMS) for photos that I had the opportunity to use the last few days. To this point I'm extremely impressed with the project. I had some minor issues I had to work through to get it working but now that it's up, its fantastic. I especially like the fact that it runs on my home server so no need to worry about privacy or bandwidth issues. If you have a Windows server at your disposal I highly recommend checking it out. I have been thinking about creating a CMS for this so I'm really relieved that someone has already doen the hard work!

Gallery Server Pro