We’re Back…
Written by Ernesto on February 18, 2008… after almost 24 hours downtime. Thanks for waiting.
No MPAA or RIAA
No DDOS
Hardware troubles caused the downtime, normally not that big of a problem if the people at Softlayer weren’t that incompetent. It took them 12 hours to find out that the motherboard died, and another 12 to reinstall the OS. At the time of writing we still don’t have our data back. So, we took our backups and moved out of there, let’s hope everything holds up.
Forums are down for now, will be fixed within 24 hours
We will move to a better and more stable server in a few hours, without any significant downtime hopefully
update: The “you can click but you can’t hide” image was supposed to be a joke. I linked it to the new IP. 50 worrying emails and an hour later I took it down.
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nice to see you back, thought it was a takedown
Nice one lads, was getting worried there.
phew! i was getting worried about you guys. keep up the good work amigos. long live torrentfreak.
Site is down for me unless I use a proxy ;s?
@4 same here, I thought it was my isp being evil
@4, @5: They write that they moved out of the previous webhotel, so the ip address of the site has probably changed. This in turn means that it will take some time until all the nameservers learn the new ip…
about time lol
Welcome Back!
TorrentFreak cant be taken down…right? You guys dont break any laws! :)
your site going down really gave us torrentfreak fans goosebumps.
ITS NICE YOU PPL R BACK!!!!!!!!!!
Are the forums down?
After reading a Google cached page of the PRQ fire I had the idea maybe you guys where hosted there too lol
Welcome back !
DNS propogation delays meant I could only see the site via IP insertion.
Knew it’d only be a matter of time…
WB, guys. =]
Incompetent because it took 24 hours?
Dare you to host with moxie :P
Just one day of downtime is not too bad , nice to see you back up again.
Our ISP tele2.fr in France has had an “Internal Network Error” for 20 days and counting , still no explanation or apologies so far.
I am blogging it here – http://opensource.weloveit.info/node/80
Yup, one of the bad things of electronic devices is that they tend to fail from time to time.
Great to see you’re back though.
Yep all working fine now :)
364/365 ~= 0.997. It is rather hard and expensive to get a realistic 99,7% uptime guarantee. I believe 98% is more common which means an expected average downtime of 8 days a year – not necessarily contiguously of course.
[quote comment="292148"]@4, @5: They write that they moved out of the previous webhotel, so the ip address of the site has probably changed. This in turn means that it will take some time until all the nameservers learn the new ip…[/quote]
No if you use OpenDNS :-P
Добро пожаловать назад. :)
[quote comment="292345"]364/365 ~= 0.997. It is rather hard and expensive to get a realistic 99,7% uptime guarantee. I believe 98% is more common which means an expected average downtime of 8 days a year – not necessarily contiguously of course.[/quote]
You’re right, Unfortunately it’s the third time this year. For most sites it’s not a huge problem I guess but we had some stories to post, that is the frustrating part.
We need to invest in redundancy, that’s the next step.
So you mean the sacrifices I made to the Gods were not necessary? Jeez :(
the MPAA message still shows to some users in Norway :-/
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5357/wtfkn3.jpg
Im getting that message aswell… from UK…
I think its just been hacked tbh
Still showing the MPAA ad in sweden but using opendns get’s me to the correct site
I live in Norway…
Never seen that MPAA message…
enter this in your host file
69.65.29.20 torrentfreak.com
Uk here, never got that message once..
its normal for websites to have downtime people…. wow
[quote comment="292421"]the MPAA message still shows to some users in Norway :-/
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5357/wtfkn3.jpg/quote
That was a joke ;)
Removed it when people started to *freak* out
np, now get me my pipe and slippers.
I recommend you go with a smaller dedicated host. These massive web hosts have so many customers that they can’t possibly provide decent support to all of them. Your continued custom is also less important to them, what’s one less customer out of thousands. I found this out through experience.
Go on webhostingtalk, or any large hosting forum and look under offers. If you see a good one, do a search and check other users feedback. You should be able to find a good little host this way.
Long Live T-Freak!
Please, do not make this kind of jokes (picture) so as not to scare the shits out of me.
No shit, I couldn’t get on suprbay or torrentfreak, but I could pong them both. I was up all night peeking through the blinds.
[quote comment="292189"]TorrentFreak cant be taken down…right? You guys dont break any laws! :)[/quote]
it does not matter if they broke a law, the MPAA would still attack them, call them a terrorist or some shit, either way if they did that, it would be a fun retalliation.
lol that can’t hide thing made me laugh sorta figured it was a joke as tf has absolutly no questionable content on it at all.
This site has been infiltrated and is now in the control of internet spooks. I just know it is! I will probably be killed for this knowledge, so God bless you all.
Jking.
Serious I though it was a take down as well.
sorry for the emails :p
but some things you dont wanna miss far out on holiday.
i think this one was more scary
http://img46.imageshack.us/my.php?image=torrentfreakte7.jpg
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