If you want to start a bittorrent tracker but don't want to bother with all of the trouble of things like Gazelle, you might like thehighseas, a straightforward bittorrent tracker I wrote:
That's a different league though. Gazelle provides a lot more than just listing torrents.
Absolutely, I just thought I'd mention it in case people want to get into bittorrent but want an easier way to get started
I'm not sure about that. Feature-wise it might be in a different league but the code is absolutely horrible.
Gazelle isn't actually a tracker though - it's a web front-end / torrent website, but doesn't actually do the tracking part itself.
Thanks - but having written a bittorrent tracker + web interface, I'm aware of the distinction. Most people who want to set up something simple don't actually care though, and my hope is that thehighseas helps people get started sharing with friends.
Sorry, I didn't mean to patronize your face off - was clarifying more for the benefit of other readers who are not so au fait with the infrastructure :)