I started this thread to collect a long list of
1. Torrent Trackers
2. Site for uploading the .torrent file

Please suggest your favorite ones.

Unique Visitors Per Month AUGUST 2011

fulldls 146,569
seedpeer 220,480
torrentdownloads (net) 227,719
sumotorrent 255,400
torrentportal 262,482
kickasstorrents 298,805
monova (org) 371,084
bitsnoop 381,353
torrentreactor (net) 518,305
isohunt 891,242
extratorrent 1,026,889
btjunkie (org) 1,802,473
piratebay (org) 3+ million

list is 2 months old now so needs updating - run these domains at:
http://www.compete.com/
and get the latest numbers - google torrent sites to add ones not on this list and check those too. It only takes about an hour but then you will know what's hoppin' vs. what's droppin'

torrentz - 1,709,930
nutorrent - 26,103
1337x -189,948
torlock - 69,688
newtorrents ) - 31,601
h33t - 116,440
demonoid - 787,278
limetorrents - 36,555
torrentfunk - 121,791
torrentzap - 89,641
fulldls - 151,776
yourbittorrent - 231,978
vertor - 410,635
bt-chat - 54,679

All the listed ones are good, just check out which ones you like. Always take the ones with most traffic.

Originally Posted by fandi

I started this thread to collect a long list of
1. Torrent Trackers
2. Site for uploading the .torrent file

Please suggest your favorite ones.

demonoid has gone way downhill since a year ago
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/demonoid.com/
not worth upping there imo
you have to check stats every few months to keep on top of the changes

Can someone please explain the importance of the trackers when you create the torrent? I just use the 2 standard ones in utorrent:

tracker * openbittorrent * *80 / announce

tracker * publicbt * *80 / announce

(and upload torrent to btjunkie, extratorrent and tpb)
...

Is there an advantage to using more than these 2?

Originally Posted by jennifer.goldfieldin

Can someone please explain the importance of the trackers when you create the torrent?

Trackers are what keep your torrents available, sending information to the downloader so he can connect and recieve the "bits" from you.
It's very important to have more than just two trackers because if those two were to fail at the same time your torrent would not be downloadable by anyone ('Ive had it happen when 3 trackers went down)

Some say too many trackers is also not good because you stress your torrent client out trying to update all those trackers, there may be some truth to this but it's probably only true when you have tons of torrent seeding.

Personally, I would not use less than 5 trackers but never more than 15.
(7 or 8 is a nice balance)
The best way to find the most reliable trackers is to visit your favorite torrent site and download some torrent "files" (not the torrent itself just the torrent file). Pick the most popular, heavily seeded torrents you can find

Then visit this site:
http://torrenteditor.com/

load the torrent file up like you are going to edit it and it will show you which trackers are online and which are offline. You will start to see a pattern of which are usually online as opposed to off and those are the ones you will want to use

As you begin seeding your own torrents keep an eye your trackers from time to time from within your torrent client, you will see if any of those trackers are no longer running very good and you can update your tracker list accordingly.