Easily host a private bittorrent tracker and seed files on a linux server. The dockerfile is for the tracker, which runs bittornado. The bash script seedtorrent creates a .torrent file and starts seeding it with ctorrent.

• docker run -d --name tracker -p 6969:6969 joselee/bittornado-tracker

• git clone https://github.com/joselee/bittornado-tracker.git
• sudo apt-get install ctorrent
• sudo chmod +x bittornado-tracker/seedtorrent
• sudo mv bittornado-tracker/seedtorrent /usr/local/bin/

• seedtorrent fileOrFolder torrentName.torrent
• now the .torrent file is ready to be distributed

There's lots of room for improvement here. This was a really quick and dirty solution so that I could avoid using FTP.

• seedtorrent installation and execution could be packaged into a docker container (would need to use shared volumes)
• seedtorrent could host up a simple website that lists the .torrent files