In this article i’ve shared with you some of the best Bittorrent Tracker Scripts in PHP and my experience with each of them in very short so that it helps you in starting your own Torrent Site. This article only concerns private torrent tracker scripts and not the scripts which indexes torrents such as mininova. My highest advice will be if you are starting something with some fresh ideas and and confidence in the venture i recommend spending money and creating your own tracker from ground using something like opentracker which piratebay uses.
How to Earn from Torrent Site
Before you start your torrent site, you may like to plan for future expenses, as running a torrent site is costly and from my personal experience donations don’t suffice for the costs, and specially in new sites people doesn’t even donate even when you give then free uploads or ratio fixes. Most people hit and run on new sites. So those who are wondering how to make money from torrent sites you are in right place. There are several whys you can make money from torrent sites, some of them are listed below:
Content locker : Content Blocker or Locker locks the content and hence disables people from downloading unless they finish some pay per action PPA. The best company offering PPA in market is Adscend Media. Payment on per action varies from 50 cent to $15 based on its conversion rule. I don’t suggest using content blocker for main site, instead it should be used in screenshot or snapshot pages, also they can be done for all download pages.
Affiliate Marketing – This is my favorite method, for affiliate marketing you need some knowledge in SEO and marketing itself, but this is the highest paying method you can even use this method even if you dont have a website by cleverly integrating it, My friend who have a torrent site earns around $800-900 from affiliate marketing every-month without doing anything. If you want to jump in affiliate marketing i’d suggest investing some money and getting to know about the market by reading Commission Domination by Anik Singal & Andrew X, 2 Hottest affiliate marketers.
Bad Ideas – Some of the bad ideas to earn from torrent sites are using pay per download model, CPC ads (never converts), hefty membership charges (specially for new websites), and other n00bish ideas.
Xbtit
Xbtit is developed by Btiteam. It is released under Free BSD license. It is a highly recommended tracker and can certainly be regarded as one of the best available tracker. It even has option of integrating xbtt C++ tracker which is highly efficient. It uses SMF as its forum and the project is actively supported by a large group on members. Its definately the best choice if you want the best free tracker.
Main Features :
- Choice Of Tracker (PHP or C++)
- Template System
- Choice Of Forum
- External Mail Server Support
- Easy Modification Installs
- Ajax Shoutbox and Poll
- Cache System
- Extensive Admin Panel
- External Tracker Support
Some Live Sites Using Xbtit :
Torrent Strike
It is one of the modded version of original TBDev Script. Torrent Strike has many flavors such as officially supported Nzb, Fullymodded etc, or even some unofficial ones. The script is lightweight good for a starting new site which doesn’t want many hassels. I really don’t like the admin panel and settings are pretty odd. Its recommended to those who want to run a very simple lightweight script.
Main Features :
- Template System
- Poll and Shoutbox
- Games
- Embedded phpBB forum
- Fast Tracker
Some Live Sites Using Torrent Strike :
Template Shares
This script is developed by xam and comes at a premium, its originally based on TBdev, but it has been modded beyond recognition, the script is encoded and released so that it cannot be copied. I have used the script on one of my friends site and also asked what are his views about the script,
I was originally using torrent strike and i mainly transferred to this script as it looks good and supports external scrape, integrated imdb easy plugin system and many other features. Truly saying at first i was very happy with the script but later i realised its pretty security freak script banning every ip, without support of multiple downloads for same user which really was a drawback to me as i sometimes release torrents in public sites. More over this script uses encoding and has many excess stuffs which are not needed but takes up my whole system ram and processor, its very system heavy. I will not recommend this if you have low budget and can’t get yourself a great server, or if you want a script which you can mod it to suit your needs. I will also not recommend who wants to release torrents in public. Moreover i find the script admin and moderator panel highly complicated. This script is only for sites who wants to have very secure site and lots of restrictions in site, or want to have ssl layer. For a general regular site this isn’t worth investing.
Main Features :
- SSl and External Scrape Support
- Silver, Double And Free Leech Torrent
- IMDB Support
- Cronjob
- Plugins Support
- Very Secure Admin, Moderator Panel
- Subtitle Support
- Easy Paypal Integration
- Ajax Themation
Some Live Sites Using Template Shares :
PHP MyBittorrent
Main feature of this script is active support or other networks other than bittorrent. This is a recommended script for those who wants their site to have different protocol supported or wants to create public tracker. This is the only script having massive torrent upload and PHPBB3 forum integrated.
Main Features :
- Supports all latest BitTorrent Protocol Extensions, including Compact Announce, MultiScrape, DHT, Peer Count, Tracker ID, Unique Peer ID, Backup Tracker
- There are many ways other than BitTorrent to share files. GNutella, Direct Connect, eDonkey are some of them.
- Massive Torrent Upload
- Low Requirements
- Theme System
- Easy to Mod
- phpBB3 Forum Integrated
Some Live Sites Using Php My Bittorrent :
Torrent Trader
This is a classic script, does’nt really have anything special. So i can’t really say for whom the script is, maybe its for those who don’t like the above 4 scripts mentions and liked the settings and system of torrent trader. You need to try it to know.
Main Features :
- Fully Themable
- 14 Languages
- Peerguardian Import Facility
- IRC Integration
- RSS Feeds
- Additional Hacks
Some Live Sites Using Torrent Trader :
Summary
There is no summary to this i can’t pin point and say that “this script is for you”, its better you try the script yourselves and check which suits your needs and also your knowledge and you are better off to go with that. But as for general conclusion, i think you should obviously try Xbtit. and if you have money to spare you can go for Templateshares, though i dont think you should opt for that considering its encoded and you can’t suit your needs, but its all about your wishes, maybe you’ll find templateshares better than others. The other script mentiones are also worth trying and lastly it all depends on your needs and your pocket (not only on script but also on the server). There are many other script i haven’t included practically because either they are still in Beta or are ols and are not being developed. Some of them are Yana Scaturi, Gazelle, YAFTC etc.
What you can do next is visit BVList, and check out all options throughly and get recommendations from other users using such scripts.
P.S – Many Links given in this article host illegal files in their tracker, i do not approve them, i have only added them for demo purposes, Please don’t infringe any copyright by hosting illegal stuff in your tracker. Thanks!!
Yassin
Very Nice Scripts For Torrent Site !! i Test It
Thx !!
Yuna Scatari
Yana Scaturi -> Yuna Scatari
RTFM!
Joeroberts
:s
Joeroberts
Beta testers needed for phpMyBitTorrent version 2.0.4 beta1
http://www.jungle-pirates.com/phpMyBitTorrentV2.0.4_beta1.rar
tony
thanks for the write up about torrentstrike and im glad to see our project is being used and there is a new version of torrentstrike going to be released soon which will run quicker and also come as a xbt option soon after
rapid0
Another example and Family Safe version of the Template Shares tracker by xam
http://rapidtreggy.com
Joeroberts
We are still seaking Beta testers for
phpMyBitTorrent 2.0.4
some features added:
NEW cache system to lighten database load
This includes
1. configs
2. Shout configs
New shout box settings from admin panel
Settings Include
1. Open/Close ShoutBox
2. announcement on top of shouts [BBcode is used]
3. Number of shouts to show
4. How long to keep shouts
5. Refresh Rate
6. Idle Time
7. Allow System to shout new users
8. Allow Shout new torrents
9. Allow Porn Torrents to be shouted [not finished]
New level control system
Allows you to
1. Create New level
2. Edit what each level can do
3. Edit level color
4. Delete level
New Help desk system
New User Pruning system
New By pass email confirmation
New give upload credit on sign up
New layout in admin panel
New Youtube video
Lots of code fixes from past bug reports
Joeroberts
phpMyBitTorrentV2.0.4 is moving to RC1 files can be found at bvlist or phpMyBitTorrent web sites
Joeroberts
phpMyBitTorrent2.0.4 is now Gold release https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmybittorrent/
Dobby2007
Link to Desifilmz not working!!!
Subhadeep
yes, i’ll update it
John Stroman
I find I can’t use other peoples’ scripts. They are always buggy, man. I just wrote everything custom for cinematorrents
It can be good to at least review what else is out there and analyze what’s been done.
.-= John Stroman´s last blog ..Big Fish 2003 720p BluRay x264 CMCT =-.
Frank
Xbtit dosen’t even come with the very basics to run a tracker that has members, no rules, no faq’s not even a disclaimer, not to mention the lack of support they offer even when you sign up for their so called premium support which you wont get any of even though you have paid for it.xbtit is for thoses if you have time, money and patience, and be prepered for the mods not to work.
PhPmybittorrent has all the basics and more but is a very clumsy script and i had a lot of errors before i even got to the home page.
Torrent trader seems ok but looks very “old” visually but comes with the basics and is easy to add mods to which is a plus in my book.
nadz
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ArabicGT
Watch This HD Video. A Quick Tour On Xbtit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE96cK4_qBE
chaotec
hey guyes what about What about those Scripts؟
torentz.com or /thepiratebay.org/
How do I get one of these
chaotec
can any one a link for x10 media torrent Search Engine encoded
Phatpicks
I am looking 2 start my own Torrent download, like Demonoid or xbit,
I want 2 be able 2 implement feeds like blogs,streaming,widgets etc.
pls email me.
india information
thanx 4 sharing …..
i really need it.
joeroberts
the Linked demo for phpMyBitTorrent is for the Next release of 2.0.5
witch is not out yet.
Z3r0
i’m using xbtt tracker on http://www.PoTorrent.com , but it’s unreliable
thinking of creating my own custom tracker
buznagn
i know this post is old but people still probably look at it so i would like to say the site Diva Design using the torrent trader source is no longer around. the actual site was not a tracker but did use the source just to show people that torrent tracker sources are not limited to just running a tracker and can be used to run any kind of site you want.
sitebitch
we use Template Shares 7.1 good litle scrip just no help from maker xam.
Dentoo
Seedboxes and tracker hosting will be nneded.
Hosts that are recommended and accept torrent trackers and seedboxes are:
http://dentoo.info
and http://admin-hosting.com
They will give you best advices too with their experience.
SupamaN
Where I find hosting?
web hosting
This article only concerns private torrent tracker scripts and not the scripts which indexes torrents such as mininova
joeroberts
phpMyBitTorrent can index torrents like mininova
dark shadow
TSUE looks awesome: http://templateshares-ue.net/tsue/
testa
i think theres a java applet backdoor in phpMyBitTorrent CHAT
joeroberts
kinda hard for that to happen due to the fact no message or query’s are executed threw the IRC chat
that is all done on another server.
Now If you Host a IRC server this could be true But that has nothing to do with phpMyBitTorrent
Anon
There is a new source code on the block called. U-232.com
Here is a promo code for a site using this source base so you can take alook. Bear in mind, this site has been modded quite a bit compared to the original u-232 code base.
https://digitalabyss.me/promo.php?do=signup&link=30af27118e66a280e7f0f56bfe960127
tbdev gazelle
what about gazelle, tbdev?
just because some of this scripts are fully modded … that doesn’t make them better then tbdev
as 90% of the best private tracers are using tbdev code … + xbtt
look here
http://www.tbdev.net/topic/24714-tbdev09-xbt/