Just today I've seen two examples, one from ibiblio, the other from hurricane electric, of dedicated torrent hosting. It seems like Prodigem is onto something here :). Now, how to stay ahead of the curve? The answer is for Prodigem to keep on the path of the groundbreaking, and I've got some ideas as good as the original...

(Via Thomas Winningham and slashdot)

By default prodigem currently allows users to have prodigem seed 3 torrents. This number 3 is referred to as your hosted torrent allowance. I'm thinking of removing this concept all-together from Prodigem.

For one, I think it's confusing to the novice user. But more importantly, with the controls I've implemented to limit storage space and limit user's bandwidth, I'm no longer sure it's necessary to have a third control to limit the number of torrents you can have prodigem seed for your account (as the two others in a way already do limit the number of torrents you can have prodigem actively seed).

Though, the upside of keeping the allowance is that each torrent that prodigem hosts spawns a new thread internally which, as an aggregate, affects the load put onto the Prodigem server. However, I've lately gotten my load problems under control and am not sure I need to be as conservative anymore about protecting myself from this.

Thoughts? I can't imagine any user saying I should keep it. How should I handle the malicious user who might try to have prodigem seed an excessive number of very small torrents? Limit torrent size to >1MB? Right now there is only 1 torrent (out of 68) which is below this threshhold (I'd of course grandfather it in).