Are you thinking about the possibility of increasing the number of torrents that can be processed? The script wasn't really designed with multiple servers in mind. I suppose a key issue would be how the database would work - you'd probably need some clustered setup. If you could solve that, and a few other small things, such as file syncing (e.g. attachments) from multiple sources, most things should probably work, as long as there isn't some corner case race condition or similar. Ultimately, it'd probably be easier and make a lot more sense just to get a larger server than deal with the hassle of thinking how to distribute processing and manage merging.
Alternatively, you could just run completely separate setups, if you don't ever need to merge the databases. I'm not sure what your motivation for the question is, but if, say, you wanted other Nyaa categories to be fetched, it could be a viable option, where the other categories would be on their own website.
Of course, I don't accept donations, so this hypothetical scenario won't play out.
Thank you! Yes, that's exactly what I meant by pipes :)
As for adding servers (specifically for torrent-processing): By server I meant ether a dedicated one, or a VPS. For example, if someone went ahead and donated a few dollars: Would it be possible to rent another server and integrate it into the processing-pipeline, without rewriting large chunks of code? (once again: for torrent-processing specifically)
AT currently runs on the following 4 'servers': - updates/torrents processing - webserver (animetosho.org) - storage server (storage.animetosho.org) which hosts attachments, screenshots etc. also hosts mirror.animetosho.org - 1fichier proxy (ddl.animetosho.org) for Direct links
The servers typically have 100Mbps or 1Gbps NICs, but I don't use dedicated bandwidth (i.e. it's shared), so actual maximum throughput can vary depending on usage by others, and the host may throttle the connection, and some have monthly quotas. I assume that's what you mean by 'pipes'.
Webserver sends out roughly 1TB per month. Storage server somewhere around 1-2TB per month (can vary depending on what sites decide to hotlink screenshots). DDL server varies a lot.
Your last question is hard to answer as it depends on what the purpose the new server would be for. Ordering a new server is usually not difficult, whereas integrating it would depend on what one plans to do with it.
There's also a slight issue of what a server exactly is. Basically, you can have physical servers (aka dedicated servers) which can host multiple virtual servers (technically virtual servers can further host virtual servers too), which means you could create your own notion of what a server is, regardless of underlying hardware or service. animetosho.org and ddl.animetosho.org run on virtual servers, which I consider to be 'servers'.
I've been wondering for quite some time now, maybe you are willing to answer them: 1) How many servers are you using? 2) How big are their pipes? 3) How much traffic does this site produce? (I would love to see some statistics <3) 4) Would it be easy to add additional servers?
It seems like the Nyaa mods actually prefer it to be submitted to the English section but won't enforce it. Their switch is rather weird, as some are posted to English translated, whilst others aren't. The ones that remain in English translated also have non-English subtitle tracks (at least the ones I checked).
I don't really like changing the fetch rules as it complicates the processing pipeline/rules a bit, but I've made the changes now, so new files from Erai should be fetched. See how that goes.
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I agree. Why complain? Watch what you want. I prefer having both. Sometimes I get tired of reading subs so having options is nice.
Think about if every type video (movies, tv, etc.) you ever watched wasn't in your native language or even subbed were rare like some of the 3rd world countries. It would suck. Hell being the U.S. releases most of the biggest movies in the world most non English speaking countries have to deal with subs or bad audio conversions. It goes both ways.
At least with animated video dubbed conversions can be pretty good and easy to make the mouth movements match the audio.
As far as asking why anime are dubbed its obvious. Dubbed to native languages = More audiences = more money made for animators and distributors. If money wasn't to be made outside of Japan most of the sub conversions would be shitty as hell and wait times for subs after release would take forever.
Why wouldn't they be? They're easily the biggest North American distributor of anime. They're making big bucks and partnered with Crunchyroll and owned by Sony Entertainment.
Face it, FUNimation isn't going anywhere... and based on various pollings around ANN, aBytes, and other anime communities, more than half of anime fans are okay with dubs even if most would normally prefer subs, while more than one third won't watch subtitles.
The reason I prefer them over HorribleSubs is that they provide additional subtitle-tracks. Adding them shouldn't be too hard, as it's probably just an extra rss-feed that needs to be fetched.
The only difference on most Erai-raws rips compared to HorribleSubs these days is font styling now that HorribleSubs is forced to download the same CRF encode from Crunchyroll rather than the 2pass they had been doing for years.
It's a lot of extra bandwidth for AnimeTosho who already seems to be very self conscious about bandwidth usage by it's 15GB cap on auto approve listings just to post duplicate offerings with nothing different than a font change. Especially if the group keeps posting it in a different category that is gonna require special treatment to get added here.
Would it be possible to explicitly grab Erai-raws' releases? They seem to have decided on uploading them in another nyaa-category. I downloaded a few files and they all still have an English translation.
He's talking about their new stuff. That's because Erai changed its tag from "Anime - English-translated" to "Anime - Non-English-translated" which AnimeTosho does not process.
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