Torrents are stereotyped to be a pirates tool, fortunately this is not true. Businesses, writers, scientists, professors, game developers, online advertisers and many others are using the Torrent network to get their files to many people, quickly without the high cost of high bandwidth web servers.

This article will explain how you can create a .torrent file which can be placed on a website for users to quickly download large files.

Creating a torrent file

The steps to creating a .torrent varies between clients, if your client is not listed below leave a comment and I'll add a tutorial.

Azureus

Azurues' wiki (http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/CreateTorrentWizard) explains in detail everything you need to know about creating a .torrent file. This tutorial will summarize how to create a .torrent file using Azureus and using an external tracker.

Step 1: Choose "File > New Torrent"

Step 2: Fill in the announce URL of your preferred external tracker

Step 3: Choose if you want to create a .torrent file from a file or directory(folder) and click next.

Step 4: Browse to the file and then click next.

Step 5: Click Finish.