There are some things that are less about usefulness, and more about the cool factor. One such thing is setting up your own torrent tracker. There are plenty of legitimate use cases, but for most people, a personal tracker would be overkill. If, however, you need to distribute large files without wasting bandwidth, or just want to know how all this works, you can get one started fairly easily with RivetTracker. All you need is the right software and a basic understanding of Apache to get things moving.
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