Update & Bandwidth statistics (Kinda) (May 2021)

Hey everyone,

I have some minor updates and partial bandwidth statistics for you today.

As of a few days ago we now offer a hourly updated fullscrape over at https://opentrackr.org/scrapes/fullscrape.gz -- We still offer fullscrapes through the tracker, but we may discontinue this in the future to reduce load.

This fullscrape is rate limited to 1 request per minute per IP, but this might be increased to once per 30 minutes. Either way it's not meant to be downloaded that often, if you wish to check for an updated fullscrape just get the date modified with a HEAD request. (This also counts towards the rate limit)

I've also been thinking about setting up a IPv6 tracker, but I'll need to do some more research in how this will affect our current setup.
I mostly wonder how modern torrent clients handle having both access to IPv4 and IPv6. It should announce twice, both over IPv4 and over IPv6. If this does not happen a client might only be listed on the IPv4 tracker, or worse, only the IPv6 tracker. If anyone has an opinion on including IPv6 or has experience with running a dual-stack tracker feel free to leave a comment!

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The server has been running smoothly with the new hardware and code updates, allowing us to serve more requests then ever before! This also means our bandwidth usage has increased by quite a lot.

Sadly I misconfigured vnstat (didn't increase data retention period), meaning we only have partial data for May! Oops, next month will be complete though :)

•           day        rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
•      ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
•      05/13/2021     2.36 TiB |    2.57 TiB |    4.93 TiB |  502.10 Mbit/s
•      05/14/2021     2.25 TiB |    2.51 TiB |    4.76 TiB |  484.97 Mbit/s
•      05/15/2021     2.21 TiB |    2.45 TiB |    4.67 TiB |  475.30 Mbit/s
•      05/16/2021     2.30 TiB |    3.24 TiB |    5.54 TiB |  563.59 Mbit/s
•      05/17/2021     2.80 TiB |    6.70 TiB |    9.50 TiB |  967.34 Mbit/s
•      05/18/2021     2.71 TiB |    6.51 TiB |    9.22 TiB |  938.84 Mbit/s
•      05/19/2021     2.84 TiB |    6.73 TiB |    9.57 TiB |  974.27 Mbit/s
•      05/20/2021     2.76 TiB |    6.49 TiB |    9.25 TiB |  941.58 Mbit/s
•      05/21/2021     2.82 TiB |    7.18 TiB |   10.00 TiB |    1.02 Gbit/s
•      05/22/2021     2.67 TiB |    6.40 TiB |    9.07 TiB |  923.49 Mbit/s
•      05/23/2021     2.89 TiB |    7.30 TiB |   10.19 TiB |    1.04 Gbit/s
•      05/24/2021     3.17 TiB |    8.46 TiB |   11.63 TiB |    1.18 Gbit/s
•      05/25/2021     3.14 TiB |    8.31 TiB |   11.45 TiB |    1.17 Gbit/s
•      05/26/2021     3.08 TiB |    8.20 TiB |   11.29 TiB |    1.15 Gbit/s
•      05/27/2021     3.12 TiB |    8.23 TiB |   11.35 TiB |    1.16 Gbit/s
•      05/28/2021     2.93 TiB |    6.72 TiB |    9.65 TiB |  982.56 Mbit/s
•      05/29/2021     3.02 TiB |    7.70 TiB |   10.71 TiB |    1.09 Gbit/s
•      05/30/2021     2.67 TiB |    4.77 TiB |    7.44 TiB |  757.23 Mbit/s
•      05/31/2021     2.94 TiB |    6.25 TiB |    9.19 TiB |  935.92 Mbit/s

As always, if there are any questions please let me know!