The main ingredients of any successful torrent tracker are a recognizable name, good hosting, and a good engine. In addition, you will have to deal with website promotion and work with advertisers.
Domain
To start creating a website with torrents, you need to choose a sonorous domain name. If you are going to create a torrent tracker in RuNet, it will be natural to use a domain in the. RU zone, the name of which will contain the word "torrent". Such well-known trackers as rutorrent, torrentino, etc. have taken this path.
You can register a domain name at any domain registrar. All you need to do for this is register on the corresponding website and top up your balance. As a rule, domain registration in the. RU zone for one year is about 80-90 rubles.
Hosting
The second step is choosing a hosting. Most Russian hosters offer their customers budget tariff plans in the region of 200-300 rubles per month for supporting several sites at once on different domains.
You will upload your torrent site via FTP. Login and password for FTP access must be provided by the hoster. Usually, after paying for hosting services, you will receive a letter by e-mail with all the necessary data - FTP access credentials, access credentials to the administrator panel and data for access to MySQL databases.
Engine
The heart of any torrent tracker is the engine itself. There are many free and paid tracker engines available on the internet. One of the most popular for a long time remains an engine called TorrentPier. It is a free open source torrent tracker engine based on the phpBB2 forum. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database. Externally, the sites created on TorrentPier very much resemble the rutracker portal, which is popular in Russia.
Torrent site development
The main task of the tracker owner is to ensure the flow of new visitors who will upload torrents and support the life of the forum. To do this, the site must already contain many popular films, music videos, etc. You can promote your site using large social networks and forums.
How to make money on torrents
You can and should earn money on torrent trackers. You can place paid banners, blocks of teaser networks, links to CPA offers or links of affiliate programs on your website pages. Don't forget about mobile traffic - nowadays many users download torrents directly from their smartphones. If you filter this traffic and show it ads targeting the mobile niche, you can earn extra money.
