Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir

Summary

The Bittorrent Tracker made in Elixir 👷‍♂️This project is a Work In Progress. While not ready for full industrial usage it does work. There is a testing instance running at extracker.dahrkael.net:6969 with all current features enabled (Live statistics). Features Implementation Legend: 🔲 Not Yet 🔰 Partially ✅ Done ❌ Won't do Important Features ✅ High performance (uses ALL the available cores, in-memory storage) ✅ Low memory usage (~200MB of RAM for each 1.000.000 peers) ✅ Zero setup (launch it and it just works) Tracker-related BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals Final and Active Process BEPs ✅ BEP 0: The BitTorrent Protocol Specification Accepted BEPs Draft BEPs Deferred BEPs ❌ BEP 8: Tracker Peer Obfuscation Other Features ✅ HTTPS support ✅ Database backups to disk ❌ WebTorrent 🔰 Infohash whitelist/blacklist 🔰 Peer management (interval enforcement, cleanup, banning, etc) 🔰 Metrics 🔰 GeoIP support (statistics, peer restrictions) Feel free to propose features in the Issues Setup There are 3 main ways of running ExTracker currently Straight from source code For this method to work you need to have Erlang and Elixir installed on your system Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Dahrkael/ExTracker.git && cd ExTracker If needed, modify the configuration in config/runtime.exs to fit your needs run MIX_ENV=prod iex -S mix From Releases Currently there are no official releases built (soon™️). You can however make your own and deploy it where needed: Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Dahrkael/ExTracker.git && cd ExTracker run MIX_ENV=prod mix release extracker for Linux or MIX_ENV=prod mix release extrackerw for Windows for Linux or for Windows Find the release files inside the _build/prod/rel/extracker folder (if its a different machine make sure the OS and architecture is the same!) Copy the folder to its final destination If needed, modify the configuration in releases/{VERSION}/runtime.exs to fit your needs Run bin/extracker start Docker For th...