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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Hello all,
please get me an invitation code to register for demonoid.
raomvp@yahoo.com
Thanks in advance
anyone else having demonoid problems again fr the last few days? i’m just getting a blank white page. no error messages, plain nothing.
Same problem as puncheroo! I Think this is the end…
Same problem as two above people!
The end is here! Damn! Damn!
[quote comment="133123"]Same problem as two above people!
The end is here! Damn! Damn![/quote]
lmao 2 seconds later i tried it and it worked!
It’s just terribly slow. Keep refreshing and sometimes it’s showing the page. It can take 10/15 refreshes or more sometimes :( Probably too much attention because of the Brein thing. I thought they were ordering new hardware. So i am expecting to see the site up and running smoothly soon. I miss my daily dosage Demonoid :p
yeah, it’s down again..and refreshing helped the other day, but today (july 17) it doesn’t help anymore.
Wish they would say if it is tech problems or if they are shutting them down..I don’t know what to believe anymore..but I miss the site!
hrmmmmm down today, right as i remembered to look for something =x
glad i found this post. hope all goes well for them.
it’s down again… guess I’ll go see if the servers are okay… they have moved their new server just about 20 min from where I lived ^^
Still no luck. #^&%@ the is no site better when it comes to comics torrents. I miss it already. Wish it was clear what’s going on.
Damn.. the best site is dead, you could find there anything you want..manvanmars bedankt voor de goede dutch commics.
Stichting Brein in Holland has made Demonoid to stop, so they went to Canada because it’s legally there but that is already a week ago and still nothing .. is it definitely the end??
i got on yesterday and was working just fine, this morning still has problems :(
i just love that site, best site on the net.. hope they can get back soon !!!!!!
Is it still down due to hardware problems? Does anyone know when it’s expected to come back up? :(
Just got back online
Just got back online?? Nothing by me.
After a few hours,offline again!
People, I believe (thx god) Demonoid is back!!!
why do people need an invite code so bad isnt it just for one time or do you get to register while your using it???
Offline again, shit!
You need a invite code to register, or you can register mostly on friday. But if there comming back???
can someone invite me “khinmin@gmail.com” for demonoid.com? thanks
Does anyone have a spare demonoid invite? delijdewolfe@hotmail.com Thanks in advance!
Awwww! When is Demonoid going to be open for registration? I’ve been waiting all month and I don’t know any members. Do any of you know what specific days it opens? Could someone give me a invite? You don’t have to but it would be nice…
email: thedom98@yahoo.com
If your isp blocks anything or shapes your downloads you can always use a VPN to make it so that they cant monitor where you go, here’s a site that will set you up with a VPN, there is a setup fee but after that it’s free monthly.
http://www.filesharesmart.com
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