Best way to prepare for an Emergency move.

[hireshi]

If your torrents have the private flag set, and you lose the domain, then the existing swarm is dead.  i.e. - don't set the private flag.


As for the rest, have good backups and a move takes as long as it takes for you to upload the required files.

Thank you Moe,
it is set to Private, and I intend to keep it that way. However, I could get a new domain right now if you could push me in the right direction (pref offshore domain).
I am currently registered with Hostgater, lol. 

[Moe]

Each and every TLD registrar ultimately answers to ICANN, so there is no TLD or registrar out there that is "safe" to use. Regardless of their individual policies, they all answer to a higher authority.

About the only thing you can do is to NOT use the actual domain your tracker operates under in your announce URL. Rather, set up a different domain to use as an announce URL and add a CNAME DNS record pointing to the operational domain. That way if the operational domain gets shut down, you can alter the CNAME record to a new one and your torrents stay alive. As long as you don't publish the announce domain anywhere outside of the torrent file, it should fly under the radar.

[hireshi]

Each and every TLD registrar ultimately answers to ICANN, so there is no TLD or registrar out there that is "safe" to use.  Regardless of their individual policies, they all answer to a higher authority.

About the only thing you can do is to NOT use the actual domain your tracker operates under in your announce URL.  Rather, set up a different domain to use as an announce URL and add a CNAME DNS record pointing to the operational domain.  That way if the operational domain gets shut down, you can alter the CNAME record to a new one and your torrents stay alive.  As long as you don't publish the announce domain anywhere outside of the torrent file, it should fly under the radar.

So, can I buy a new domain, set that as the url of my website and announce url, but keep current one my tracker operates under private?
How would I go about having my tracker announce to an url not set to it, or does it announce to any url registered to my database?

[Moe]

You want to have two domains - one that you use publicly for your web site and tracker. Another that you do not publish, but use in your torrents as your announce URL that points to the actual tracker domain. It won't stay a secret, but it will hopefully stay obscure enough that it won't draw unwanted attention. So register something meaningless and hard to remember.

[hireshi]

You want to have two domains - one that you use publicly for your web site and tracker.  Another that you do not publish, but use in your torrents as your announce URL that points to the actual tracker domain.  It won't stay a secret, but it will hopefully stay obscure enough that it won't draw unwanted attention.  So register something meaningless and hard to remember.

I got you,
Thank you all for the valuable information. Now I know where to go from here.