Demonoid Offline For a Few Days

Written by Ernesto on June 26, 2007 

Last 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.

demonoidUpdate:
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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76 Responses

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26 Jun 28, 2007 at 15:15 by Sean

They are a gift from god

27 Jun 28, 2007 at 19:26 by jimjo16

hope you can restore everything its a great site the best

28 Jun 29, 2007 at 07:33 by Poser

As indicated elsewhere, I would think there’s something “sinister” up at demonoid. A drive crash in a worst case scenario can be rectified within hours, a day for the most. It’s been four days already. Im feeling a bit sick already :))))

29 Jun 30, 2007 at 10:11 by Ahhh

AHHH DEMONOID COME BACK. -.-

30 Jun 30, 2007 at 18:09 by DXO

the official forum is working now:
http://fora.demonoid.com/
=)

31 Jun 30, 2007 at 21:48 by tonnentho

i am in total desperation! i can’t get doctor who releases by MM on Demonoid. Anyone know where I can find MadMartha?

32 Jul 01, 2007 at 02:00 by lol

I’m getting so impatient! …The computer isnt fun without demonoid.

FAVOR! Can someone put some peper an from disney OR PBS ARTHUR?

THAT WOULD BE AWESOME ^^

I cant believe there’s no ARTHUR torrents….arghh lol

~kid at heart lol

33 Jul 01, 2007 at 02:36 by Noxer

It’s (semi) official.”pending renewal of service by current provider, Demonoid is no longer in service as of 07/01/07″ Briend release e comment=”126516″]I’m getting so impatient! …The computer isnt fun without demonoid.

FAVOR! Can someone put some peper an from disney OR PBS ARTHUR?

THAT WOULD BE AWESOME ^^

I cant believe there’s no ARTHUR torrents….arghh lol

~kid at heart lol[/quote]

34 Jul 01, 2007 at 04:16 by Noxer

It’s official
Demonoid is gone for good.
txt.de/antip/briend. nr/ 07.0107/ar9g

35 Jul 01, 2007 at 05:51 by O_O

O_O WHAT?! WHERE DID YOU GET THAT INFO FROM?!

36 Jul 01, 2007 at 12:29 by O_O

“There was a delay with our new hardware that pushes the site return for Wednesday.
The Forum is now back online though.”

-demonoid. AHHHHH WEDNESDAY >_

37 Jul 02, 2007 at 15:09 by aravindu

demonoid is my favourite torrent site

get back soon…..

38 Jul 03, 2007 at 03:21 by etiennexxx9

I hope that wednesday will be THE day.
can’t wait anymore…

39 Jul 03, 2007 at 10:10 by Tieskut

I hope Tim Kuik (BREIN) will die soon. I bet that son of a whore has an illegal copy of Windows himself.

40 Jul 03, 2007 at 21:49 by neilbigh101

im not like most of you, old and sceptical? but must say demonoid feels a bit like a safe pair of hands to a novice , hope it`s back for all soon, ps why cant we donate via cash or chq not credit card details? if it was i would

41 Jul 04, 2007 at 00:28 by dangi

well its now 27 minutes into wednesday
and its still not up yet.

42 Jul 04, 2007 at 03:52 by dangi

yay demonoid is back online now

43 Jul 04, 2007 at 03:53 by Demon Lord

Its UP ! Its Back !

On their home page !

Newspost - Jul/03/2007
Still working on this

Just got back online

Please restart your bittorrent client!

More later

44 Jul 04, 2007 at 05:57 by Alex Costa

Hi, can someone send me an email with a Demonid invitation? Tks.

45 Jul 04, 2007 at 08:57 by T Graham

Does anyone have a clue when registration will be open again, or if anyone is willing to e-mail me an invitation code i would greatly appreciate this? Iv been searching for some classic animation films, which demonoid is the only place to carry them. Im a huge fan of the scene, but cant seem to find my way into demonoid.

46 Jul 04, 2007 at 18:31 by Humole

YaY demonid is back althought its quite slow and some “Server too busy” notices :( I hope they fix that

47 Jul 05, 2007 at 12:31 by evil man

thats wat u get wen u piss off the wrong man oops i mean there hard drives were fucked cause of a virus problem oops a big one haha

48 Jul 05, 2007 at 17:26 by Katie

is it possible to get an invite to demonoid. I have tried everything and its not wotrking email me at tdslioness@yahoo.com or leavein messenger

49 Jul 11, 2007 at 11:03 by pNeo

Please people help me! I must get demonoid invitation, I must. If somebody got it please very plz send to me: magaiveris @ gmail . com please. skype: freemanlife

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