Demonoid Offline For a Few Days
Written by Ernesto on June 26, 2007Last week, Demonoid’s ISP was forced to take a smaller BitTorrent site offline. So, when the Demonoid site failed to respond this morning, many expected the worst.
Update:
Anti-Piracy Organization Tries to Shut Down Demonoid
However, the current downtime of Demonoid has nothing to do with legal actions, but with hardware issues. The Demonoid team says they are currently replacing harddrives, and that it could take a few days before the site is back up.
The timeline given indicated that this is more than a regular hardware update. The downtime is probably caused by harddrive failure.
The official announcement in the Demonoid IRC channel is:
“Site offline for a few days while harddrives get replaced”
At this point it is still uncertain if any data is permanently lost or how long it will take to get things up and running. According to one of the admins It looks like the most recent data is lost for good. The good news is that there are backups, but these are a few days old.
Luckily the Demonoid trackers are not affected by the downtime. Demonoid is still one of the most used trackers, any downtime of the tracker will make thousands of torrents unusable in clients without DHT and multi-tracker support.
Update:
Demonoid placed this message on the frontpage:
We had a system problem which will force us to restore everything from backup.
The disks are pretty much empty right now and until we are able to upload the backup and set up everything up, we have to close down.
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Phew.
I expected the worst when I saw I couldn’t access Demo this morning.
Hopefully they are moving off of LeaseWeb
Thank God. It`s one of my favourite torrent sites! :D
a few weeks ago, my isp blocked DNS for demonoid, but when I still couldn’t get the page to load even using opendns this morning, i was really worried
thanks :) such a relief…will there be upgrades?
Whew!! It’s not gone for good. That’s a relief. I was just getting to know Demonoid! ;)
thnk god! i went through tons of waiting for resestrations or an invite.
if you would like a goood sub site while its down, go to http://www.torrentman.com that is te defaule site for bitlord.
its is better then most but not demonoid.
oh and by the way. i got an invite from my friend. his demonoid name is thewiger. mine is areoseek.
tnx and have a nice dy
i coudlent access it at around 12:00 est. erie pa.
very glad to hear its only a technical problem, see you all soon
Anyone know if your ratio will be updating in this time? Want to know if I should be downloading one of the ISOs I haven’t gotten around to or if I should seed…
Demonoid says “We had a system problem which will force us to restore everything from backup.
The disks are pretty much empty right now and until we are able to upload the backup and set up everything up, we have to close down.
We’ll be back as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience.”
Our Ratio’s, noooo!
Someone’s gone and spilt mead all over that rug!
If the tracker is running, the ratio should be updated.
See you on the other side
While they are at it - Dump the ISP…
My favourite site is demonoid, I visit it several times a day. I can’t believe that the whole thing is just about hardware problem because it can be amended in a few hours. There must be something legal action behind the scene and I hope that demonoid will replace its server to somewhere else in the world just like thepiratebay and demonoidfans will be able to download/upload torrents. It is the only site which provides good quality classical music in large amount.
feel free to stop by http://file-world.net. New site with lots of potential. All new members welcome.
you dont know what youve got till its gone….. I think when they get back up and running… we all should donate some $$$ to the good people at Demonoid. I didnt realize how much I cared till I couldnt access it.
http://www.bytecollectors.com is open for new users great speed’s and plenty of seeds
I recently know Dem was out! Today 27 at 15:00, before (26 and 25) I was downloading at speed of 60K, so I didn’t worry about check demonoid.com, until now when I saw the speed rate of download at no more than 1.5K.
Can somebody tell me when exactly demonoid.com was out?
My torrents are active, so the rate are sslllowly, do they keep slow until they finally disspear?
Thank You and LIVE DEMONOID!
F___ BRIEN!
If you are looking to alternatives to Demonoid, Isohunt or TorrentSpy, you should check this list of sites:
http://digg.com/tech_news/23_Alternatives_to_TorrentSpy_IsoHunt
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