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		ineedasername on Jan 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Database-less torrent website The headline doesn't make much sense. There's still a database, what changes is simply where it's stored when in use. "Torrent Website w/o DB Server" might work better. That aside, would this method scale? 135,000 torrents doesn't seem comprehensive, so I would expect real world use to have many more. Maybe a different SQLite db for different categories?

moolcool on Jan 13, 2022 [–]

Since it's search is just based on prefixes, you could probably just alphabetically partition the databases.

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