Demonoid Warns Of Severe Torrent and User Data Loss
Written by enigmax on September 27, 2009Earlier this month we warned that there could be extended downtime at Demonoid, one of the Internet’s most popular BitTorrent trackers. Worried users are keen to see the site return soon, but staff at the site are warning that not only will it take time but months of data could be lost in the process.
There are many popular BitTorrent sites on the Internet that are sorely missed when they go offline, but of course, the larger the site, the larger the disappointment.
One major site having serious technical issues at the moment is Demonoid. At the beginning of September, TorrrentFreak reported that the Ukranian-based site would go down for possibly-extended downtime due to some hardware problems.
“We are experiencing power outages that have caused some ram and hard drive issues,” site staff sad in a statement. “We might have to shut down everything to fix and prevent further damage,” they added, while warning that the site could disappear for days while the site’s power circuit received maintenance.
Since we receive questions daily from worried users on the situation at Demonoid, an update seems in order. Unfortunately, at this stage it doesn’t seem like good news.
Although staff at the site say they hope Demonoid will return as soon as possible, they have confirmed that the hardware issues have caused severe data loss. This problem is compounded by the fact that the person who can get the data back is unavailable to assist at the moment.
“A loss of a some months worth of activity including registered users and torrent submissions is to be expected because the backup we are hoping to get back is not up to date, so please be prepared for it,” Demonoid staff said in a statement.
When ‘the backup guy’ has worked his magic the site will return. In the meantime, anyone getting public BitTorrent site withdrawal symptoms can check out our alternatives list.
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176 Responses
Strange.
Am really Worried… :-(
In Soviet Ukraine data backs you up!
Sorry. I’m not much of a comedian. :)
Uh… they should get a technichian to try to pull out the info of damaged sectors…. but yet… DAMN!
They used some kind of Raid? Preference Mirror or the one (i don’t remember the name) that is several disks working as one :)
But.. yet.. agian.. that’s bad.
So do they have backups or do they require actual data recovery?
Data recovery is difficult and expensive.
http://www.pirlog.com
The thing is:
If you are one of the biggest “private” trackers in the world… you can get away with crap like this, because … your the biggest.. Hell we all thought TPB was gone for good, and it may go down at a momments notice again… but we are all still going back to the site.
Its not going to hurt them in the long run
Thanks for the follow up! We were worried about Demonoid and it’s good to see an update every now and then !
Fingers crossed that Demonoid will return soon :-)
A raid guaranteed… ;(
Hope they come back even stronger..
As they say, you are only as strong as your weakest link..
We await you oh Demon..
Can’t wait – you don’t realise how much you miss something til it’s gone!
Bit of a bummer because I’ve upped around 500gigs to their tracker in the past three months – fingers crossed the data loss isn’t THAT bad!
ARGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I hope I don’t need to reregister and find another friggin invite code.
Looks like it’s time for me to start seeding again then.
I suppose they didn’t use Raid 10 which is way better then Raid 1, I don’t think they used Raid 0 no one is so stupid ^^
Interesting… I think there is more to this story than meets the eye.
Thanks for the update!
RAID != Backup
fucking retards ,couldn’t you make a BACKUP ?!!!!!!!!!
damn you demoniod !!!!!
While I thought demonoid really banned my IP
http://blogote.com/2009/ideas/demonoid-down-in-india-demonoid-not-working.html
FML for not reading torrentfreak regularly… but still alternative list can’t beat demonoid..
Demonoid rocks \m/
Private trackers are the best!
sure ausssssss 500gb.
id say that when they say “a few months of loss data” that would include you 500gig bro.
it just sux i had a few ps3-team blu rays on the go. damn it!!
@ double digits
My Demonoid files are still downloading. I had to add the openbittorrent tracker to each of them, but after that they are working fine.
Sure I can’t go to their website and search for anything new, but probably all, or many of the trackers are sitting under openbittorrent.
I can’t believe you were able to spin that much story from a couple of paragraphs of text on the web site.
Pretty lame backup and recovery procedure Demonoid has over there.
They have a maintenance window every day. Yet they now have to recover from an old backup. And are dependent on 1 guy that is able to do the recovery.
Hey guys, ever hear of documenting important procedures, like recovery of a backup set. And of testing your recovery procedure regularly, using actual backups.
This is just plain stupid. Not worthy of an IT-worker. (I won’t call them specialists)
I’m off now, looking for some other private tracker.
not a problem .. we’ll reup as soon as they’re back up .. ;)
They’re just that good.
What do they mean by some month lost can it be more than 6 month lost
well this is a bummer, my ratio really skyrocketed over the last month or so thanks to 24/7 Arkham Asylum seeding. guess they’ll have lost all record of that too.
Funnily enough, now Demonoid’s down, the torrents I got from there are going faster than ever.
my account…..
i hope it’s not gone too…
Those Demonoid alternatives are good to know about, but the ones I’ve looked at aren’t nearly as good as Demonoid.
I hope they return ASAP, and if any of my uploads have disappeared, I’ll just have fun re-upping them.
google.com
This sounds like great news!
The site is on its way back up – that’s great.
(Individual torrents can always be loaded back up; don’t see why it would be a disaster even if the site came back up empty – the important thing is the tracker service itself combing back online)
hmm I care how? Get on a professional private tracker
it’s the demonoidians that matter , contents will always come back to you.
I hope my account is still there. It took me 3 months to get registered on demonoid :(
LOL, You clowns thats talk shit about DEMONOID are silly, sorry you cant get a coad! If you had ever tryed that site you’d understand why so many people LOVE Demonoid!Everything you get is real! LOND LIVE DEMONOID!! True demonoids please dont forget to support Demonoid, even $5 bucks a months helps to keep the site up and running!!!
@25
I noticed that my torrents from demonoid started going significantly faster since the tracker went down as well.
interesting…
Demonoid has everything and i agree, it has alot of underground stuff you won’t find on private trackers. Demonoid is def missed can’t wait till its back!
Since I could never register on demonoid, even though I’ve tried for months and months, I couldn’t but feel some kind of schadenfreude… especially if they’ve lost a sizable amount of accounts. That way, they’ll probably have to open public registrations for a few days, so I could finally get in.
Yes, I know, that’s a bit antisocial (demonoid members can’t be blamed for demonoid’s ultra-restrictive registrations), but hey, why shouldn’t some of them stand on the wrong side of the fence just like we outsiders constantly have to?
ive been checking every day for last 2 weeks for Demonoid to be back
Get that lazy guy who can help back ASAP
FUCK! a terabyte of uploads gone!
Demonoid is a public tracker and a semi-public site as has pointed out in the forums on the site by site admins and long time demonoid members more than once.
And i too am fearing a loss of my account since i only joined recently. Also even if they experience a loss of members im not sure taht open registration will occur as site admnins also said that the servers have been overloaded with volume since the exodus from tpb began, of which i am a part i guess. That is why registration and public site access have been severely curtailed recently. Im hoping for open registrations because i imagine my account may be one of the ones lost but im also hedging my bets, looking elsewhere for renewed access, just in case open registrations dont happen and i am in the group that losses out.
They said that some hardware got damaged in the power outages, i wonder if some of that hardware was where the more recent data backups were stored and thats why there will be such a loss of information, just to give demonoid the benefit of the doubt as they say because i certainly dont know.
Isn’t it strange that one of the most prominent trackers was shut down due to power outage? If they are based in the Ukraine where power outages seem to be regular just like in almost every other ex-Soviet republic, they should have used some UPSs and back up say every week or have some alternative servers.
rofl!
all YOU NOOBS who use public trackers.
you are the lowest class of bittorrent users.
i hope you rot in your low class hell, leecher f@gz!
why are there so many people who think that
a) demonoid is a private traker, it isn’t. semi-private website, public tracker
b) a tracker determines the speed of ones torrent, it doesnt, the peers you connect to and the upload speeds of all those connected to you determine speed
hope they fix it soon
@42
b)
tracker does determine speed because some uploaders with gigabit are on sct/scc etc
you dumb noob!
looking forward to their return.it is a great torrent site.
HAVE PATIENCE ,IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL,WHO USE THE SITE ,TRY TO BE FIAR , IS A HELPFULL SITE SO GIVE TIME AND UR SUPPORT TO demoniod UP AND RUNNING SO IT WILL STAY FOR LONG , KNOW MAN IS PERFECT.
Get a membership at a REAL private tracker and you don’t have to worry as much
@43
and whats to say there isnt 2x-10x the ammount of people on a public tracker with gigabit lines. Sure that would be pretty stupid of someone, but guess what, theres a lot of pretty stupid people in this world.
your the dumb noob to be honest, a tracker has no reflection on speed.
“And i too am fearing a loss of my account since i only joined recently. Also even if they experience a loss of members im not sure taht open registration will occur as site admnins also said that the servers have been overloaded with volume since the exodus from tpb began, of which i am a part i guess. That is why registration and public site access have been severely curtailed recently.”
I’m in a similar position than you, except that I wasn’t able to register at all and not so lucky becoming a member.
This said, I don’t think that capacity problems would stand in the way of them opening up public regs. If they had hardware problems, they’ll more than likely update to more modern hardware, and this would mean, they would have more capacity than before (I’m not talking about bandwidth, that’s another problem).
So even if you’ve lost your account, don’t despair: chances are significant that we’ll both be able to jump aboard soon during one of their open regs periods.
I’m not losing hope, even though I’ve grown quite pessimistic recently. This lost data incident could be the chance we’ve been hoping for all the time.
lol @ the policeman retard who thinks a tracker determines speed, its the uploaders bandwidth you dumbass.
Of course going by the intelligence of the police, Id expect nothing else from someone with a user name like that.
off-topic:
as long as the tracker is fast and responsive then it will have no influence on download speeds. download speed is purely a function of the speed of the peers connected to the client
if the tracker is slow and unresponsive then a delay can be introduced to the client receiving peer details. in this case the tracker can be responsible for low download speeds because the client is receiving poor service from the tracker. however, with peer exchange and dht enabled the client has more options to discover peer details than the tracker alone. with a modern client like uTorrent or Vuze even a bad tracker can have very little effect on speed because the client will discover peers direct from the swarm
on-topic:
the fact demonoid has been down for 2 weeks has done little to affect the amount of traffic they are receiving
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/demonoid.com
incredible that a site can be offline but sustain the same level of traffic regardless. what i find strange is that they have not put an advert on that page to protect their revenue especially at this time when every cents matters because one would expect they need to purchase hardware
http://www.h33t.com is not a demonoid alternative because we moderate torrent descriptions and member behaviour
as long as i don’t lose my 1.85 ratio, it’s ok
Hoping for a quick and speed return..
http://www.demonoid.com the best bit torrent tracker..
i hope when the site comes back on line, members will donate $5 or $10 to help out, no doubt this problem cost extra to fix and update equipment.
have always had a hard time getting my stats to update properly on that site so until they sort that shit out, i don’t really use it that much.
try http://thegooglebay.com :D
Yay, so now I get to beg for a Demonoid invite when they finally come back online (got invited 3 weeks before they went offline).
Sucks, but I won’t complain too much seeing as they are the best torrent site I belong to.
@27
Greetings FlightSuit! I’m with you, I;ll just re-up every thing. I made backups of all my info so no prob reloading my torrents.
And just exactly whats so great about your “private’ sites, the ones I’ve seen have very little content and the rules are not geared toward someone with a less than stellar connection (upload speed). And my ratio was 2.85 with a 40kbps max up rate.
@Reasoned Mind
Stay off Demonoid, don’t want your kind there!
Oh no, my sweet ratio.
Not that it matters, but it’s the only site I use that registers up -and download :p
i like hangin around several sites but demonoid is my home ,, we’re like family ,, sure there are a few idiots but for the most part the users respect each other and accually moderate the site
If anyone is trying to download any torrents from the ‘noid and is having trouble, try adding these trackers to your list.
http://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce
http://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
They have kept my torrents alive and well.
I’ll invite all of you if I’m not burned myself.
This is old news – the demonoid site has had that message up for a few days now, at least.
We’ve been having some problems with power issues which apparantly caused some hardware damage. There was, in fact, some damage to a drive, causing them to need to backup. A backup was corrupted, as far as I can derive from their warning, and without the backup guy (It looks like the onsite backup was bad, and they are turning to the offsite backup – for you idiots roaming on about backups, research backup, father backup, grandfather backup for how backups should work for maximum retainability) has the stuff they need.
Or so I understand.
Give me a bloody break!
When I was on shaw with bandwidth limmits, I couldn’t very well download 60 gb and re upload it, as I’d be going double over it.
Also demonoid has more stuff on it than most private trackers out there.
Finally, I do my best to re upload everything, but sometimes I couldn’t that month, which would get me banned from a private tracker in about 2 seconds.
Which is quite stupid since its not really my fault – shaw is just what my family used.
Am on mts now and it rocks. No bandwidth issues.
But still, come on already. Demonoid has in some cases more seeds than say btjunkie or other alternitives, not to mention no bitching or complaining.
At least with demonoid you know your going to get your files. Other sites you can wait a month or more even for 30 gb. 5000 leachers and 400 seeders ain’t a good mix…at least with demonoid its more like 30 seeders and 10 leachers.
Just my two cents.
This ‘event’ has nothing to do with hardware failure or data backups… there has been an internal squabble brewing for quite awhile.
As before… sit down and be patient, this may take some time.
for those too lazy to google
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather-father-son_backup
so what (probably) happened was the problems with power caused the loss of the son backup, which is done daily. That leaves them the father backup, which is usually off-site at a designated employee or storage facility. The grandfather backups are taken out even farther to isolate from disasters of larger scale.
So the guy who has the father backup, which is at least a week out of date, if not more depending on how they cycle their backups, is currently unavailable or busy, and until he arrives, they can’t go back online.
Amazing how many ungrateful pieces of *IAA turds appear when a damned good torrent site goes down for a bit.
u idiots,
im on every top private tracker and i know much more than you nubs
go back to ur slow-ass public trackers.
you are all dumb to think public + demonoid have faster speeds than scc/sct/ftn.
of course it is PEERS and SEEDS that determine speed. but such uploaders on gbit are on the top private trackers.
dumbasses.
all the seedbox users are on 1337 private trackers
dumb babies
then isn’t it still the seeders that make it faster, not the tracker itself?
I think the confusion is that others think you mean the physical (well, ethereal) tracker itself is what gives speed.
And I think what you mean is that certain tracker groups are faster because of the existence of gbit seeders.
Of course, those are limited to what the gbit seeders are seeding, but I suppose the point stands…
Mierda, espero no perder mi usuario y tener que conseguir otra invitacion. Algun alma caritativa me invita a un tracker privado?
Demonoid no la cagues pues, yo soy tu fan!
The backup they’re going to use is a loss of only one month, not months. If you registered in the past month you’ll have to sign up again.
Repeat: One month, not months. TF is exaggerating a bit.
Why do people promoting private trackers have to be such jerks? I’ve seen that for a long time, and this topic is just the latest example of that. I’m seeing less name calling from public tracker fans, and more hope and gratitude. I imagine that the private tracker puppets are encouraged by their admins to bash everyone else so they can remain blissfully elitist.
Good luck to Demonoid. It’s my favorite tracker and I hope to see it return soon.
OLD NEWS IS OLD front page of demonoid had this like 3 days ago
I would recommend that you guys left demonoid and started using some other private tracker. Like torrentleech or something if you don’t have an account then get one here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFGM4WSAKso
OMGosh dude, data loss is NOT cool!
RT
http://www.total-privacy.net.tc
I get most everything from iptorrents anymore.
But, I sure do miss the forums. They were active in comparison to most private tracker forums.
I’ll be glad when they’re back up and running.
So…one of the biggest torrent sites in the world, and they don’t have any backup plans? If they’re accepting revenue from advertisers, then they should have a zero-hour plan in place. Tracker goes down? Admin does some commandline switches, the most recent backup is up on a different host in a different building. Not exactly difficult to understand the concept – I don’t run a website or anything, and I get it. Why don’t they?
And I’m speaking as an actual Demonoid user. You idiots are complaining about your memberships that are lost because you just got there – I’ve been using Demonoid for literally five years. My ratio is measured in terabytes. Quit your bitchings and go get a rapidshare account or something.
gonzobot u bad
“I can’t believe you were able to spin that much story from a couple of paragraphs of text on the web site.”
QFT
@ policeman
You stick to you private sites & trackers and keep deluding yourself you know what you’re talking about and you’re more secure.
Foolish child
This isn’t fair. Could someone else set up another free site? I want it.
private trackers blow
i accidentally demonoid =(
This could all be cover for a monumental f-ck up by the staff. A few simple mistakes and you can corrupt all the data on the server(s).
They should fall back to the backup for now and work on fixing the current hardware in the background. People will be pi-sed at losing some of their ratio but it’s better than no site at all.
if demonoid is down jst use http://www.trakeraccess.org its a great site
Actually, private trackers are on the whole less ’safe’ than public ones.
Why? Because when the site admins get busted, they roll over and cough up their user list details + ip logs due to court orders.
I would think that what happened with Elite Torrents, et al would have taught you all that by now.
sorry http://www.trackeraccess.org
#75 Gonzobot: “Quit your bitchings and go get a rapidshare account or something.”
Gonzobot, locked out people will always bitch that the doors are closed… and it’s their (our) damn right to be bitchy about it.
Don’t be so selfish, man. You may well lose your demonoid account following that f*ckup, and you’d be just as pissed about it as we mere mortals.
Oh, and btw, sharing is caring. More of that attitude would make the world better, okay? Elitism runs against the very spirit of file sharing.
Their excuses and technical stories are the most nonsensical storyline I have ever heard since the 9/11 Commission published its report.
I know this is so far from being on topic but I have to say, I am glad to see that TF is finally getting on with stories that are actually interesting again. Good work guys keep it up.
I will wait patiently for months if need be. Demonoid has provided me with the access to information that I would never have attained otherwise.
I now can learn physics, mathematics, computer science without spending the money I don’t have. My country does not this information and other sites suck.
I now have my own library, I hope to someday return the favour and upload scanned books.
Demonoid has changed my life, indeed, has given me my own life.
Demonoid, the mother fucking god turtle.
maybe they’re addin a vpn to the server ,, wouldn’t that be cool ;P
Hey that’s funny, my public tracker still works.
maybe they are purposefully purging user data in anticipation of a raid and blaming it on power issues.
they already did that ;)
ARGH! yup withdrawal! just cannot find the type od programs i was jumpin on at demonoid! no other trackers ever, eveer, ever have them or if the do it’s old as dirt and i already have them.
Demonoid come back pleeeaassseee :-(
Demonoid is such a mediocre site. Crappy speeds and dated look.
Who really gives a shiz?
demonoid is where it all comes together ,, the masters of the code get together and shoot the shit ,, havin fun ;)
If they are only looking at losing a few months of data, I probably have nothing to worry about. I registered with demonoid in 2006. If I remember right, at the time I registered they had open registrations on Fridays.
Here are some things to think about:
#1. It costs money to backup all of their data, most likely more equipment would be needed and they provide us a free service.
#2. The person who can recover their data is not lazy. He or she is probably good at what they do and is very busy at the moment.
#3. Demonoid might be down for quite a while and we will have to try to deal with it.
#4. Demonoid doesn’t care about seed ratio. But I find some people dumb posting comments on torrents complaining about no seeds when they have a very low seed ratio themselves, like around 0.30 or less. :P
#5. I’ve never liked The Pirate Bay because their search feature was so limited. With Demonoid you could select movie and pick a category like comedy or horror. I’ve never found another torrent site with as advanced search feature or uploader descriptions with screen caps and lots of detail on the files. If you know of one please say so. ISOHunt is my second choice for a torrent site, don’t have an account cause I’ve never once uploaded a torrent on any sites, and I don’t really like ISOHunt that much either.
#6. I’m going through Demonoid withdrawls right now.
41 Sep 27, 2009 at 15:34 by policeman
rofl!
all YOU NOOBS who use public trackers.
you are the lowest class of bittorrent users.
i hope you rot in your low class hell, leecher f@gz!
_____
You really think you’re elite because you’re dumb enough to fall for private trackers, don’t you?
It’s easy to believe you really are a cop.
http://torrentfreak.com/25-great-pirate-bay-alternatives-090822/
Uhh….kinda funny your alternative list is actually alternatives to The Pirate Bay and Demonoid is listed at #4. In my opinion, there isn’t a decent alternative to Demonoid for me. So I have to make due. I’m even using the Torrent Finder Toolbar in Firefox web browser, even though it has a list of about 50 torrent sites, I still can’t find anything as good as Demonoid, or even close.
“Demonoid is such a mediocre site. Crappy speeds and dated look. ”
MEDIOCRE SITE?? It’s one of the most popular torrent sites in the world!
CRAPPY SPEEDS? It’s the number of peers/seeds that influence speed, and not the tracker as much.
DATED LOOK? Oh, so you seem to demand ENTERTAINMENT every second, yes? That’s what the movies are for.
Try a little gratitude
when you get something free.
@michael8124
The alternative list is the best there is and I’m happy it exists. Everyone on their list deserves to be there and each and every one of the 25 are the best you can get. I feel bad for demonoid, but they won’t be gone for to long. Patience friend…. patience.
Hope you come back soon Demonoid. With this down time I’ve found that I am completely lost with out you.
I agree that they should not worry so much about content and just get the site back up and running and we’ll just re-up our goods.
@101
I was pointing out the irony that the link to their alternative list to Demonoid has Demonoid on the list. But you are right, I should be grateful Torrent Freak has an alternative list.
P.S. Thanks for not being a dick when responding to my comment like a certain couple of trolls who post comments here often. :D
usenet is as near to an alternative demonoid as you’ll get…though it does cost a little.
…at least all those tacky Glenn Beck torrents will be gone
lulz
@105
“…at least all those tacky Glenn Beck torrents will be gone”
Please tell me you didn’t just call Glenn Beck “tacky”. :O
I prefer to watch his videos on youtube.
private trackers are for nerds who want the newest GARBAGE-LOOKING CAM…I WANT DEMONOID BACK.
Glen Beck? Isn’t he the guy who raped and murdered a little girl in 1990?
@108
“Glen Beck? Isn’t he the guy who raped and murdered a little girl in 1990?”
That is a rumor and also what is know as “internet meme”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme
“Urban rumors and hoaxes”
Many Internet memes are urban legends, fraud schemes, slander or false news stories that are either planted deliberately to become an Internet meme, evolve by mistake or rumor, or that jump from an offline source to the Internet…..”
Here is a site I found with some info on that:
http://www.examiner.com/x-19545-Anchorage-Liberal-Examiner~y2009m9d10-Did-Glenn-Beck-rape-and-murder-a-young-girl-in-1990
“Drawing off an old Gilbert Gottfried joke in which he repeatedly insisted that comedian Bob Saget had not raped and murdered a girl in 1990, someone created the Web site GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com.”
Here is a site that refers to the rumor as “meme”:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/anti-beck-backlash-hits-nauseating-extreme-with-murder-and-rape-meme/
First paragraph:
“The viral posters that compared Obama to the Joker and to Hitler feel tame compared to the latest nasty meme to hit the Internet: insinuating that Glenn Beck raped and killed a young girl in 1990. And the meme may not go away anytime soon: preliminary evidence suggests that Anonymous, the powerful, collective behind such massive, coordinated stunts as attacking the Church of Scientology and flooding YouTube with porn, may be behind it.”
Where do you get off posting such bullshit? You should do some research before you open your fucking mouth.
this suuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
http://www.filespump.com :-)
@21 Yes, I have the same idea with ya, haha. And guest what, TorrentFreak has been able to do this many Many mAny maNy manY times, Yes, why I say this because I love this how they do. lol
Keep up good works, TorrentFreak.com
The private tracker fan bois sure are annoying. If all it takes is for you to feel like the most special person in the world is for you to belong to a private trackers group…you SERIOUSLY need a life.
We’re not all elitist private tracker fan bois and most of us couldn’t give a flying rats cunt if you feel special. Go back to your Family Guy and Britney Spears download crap you f*cking retards.
Man, this sucks! I hope they don’t loose data. I just took my ratio past 10 the last few months. :|
I agree with some comments. I think a tracker just connects people downloading to people uploading. It has no relation to the speed. Speed is determined by the bandwidth of the uploaders, and your own bandwidth limits with your ISP, and what they have their torrent client set to, and also what your bandwidth limit is set to on your torrent client, anywhere between 1 kb/s to unlimited. Also you need to take into account some ISP’s do throttle bit torrent protocols. So those who think that download and upload speeds are based on trackers and trackers alone are the noobs.
did I say tacky, I meant bat shit insane… there is some comedic value in what he does, but to take him serious, I don’t think so.
@116
“did I say tacky, I meant bat shit insane… there is some comedic value in what he does, but to take him serious, I don’t think so.”
While I disagree with what you say, I would defend to the death your right to say it.
haven’t these guys heard of ‘offsite backup’????
I backup all my servers once a day to Amazon S3 storage. Sure it costs me a sh!t load, but hell it’s so worth it. Thankfully bandwidth is cheap in the states though, Ukraine is probably a different story.
I’ve had some servers crash before, lost all data so I know how much it sucks. Since I’ve started offsite backups, I’ve had servers crash, but within 4 hours from it crashing, I’ve had new servers deployed and fully restored the backups.
Disaster recovery plans people…
yes, of course, because its so easy and cheap to have data backed up reliably and securely when you are among the most well known names in the pirating/torrenting business >.>
Seriously, this is teetering between pathetic and dissapointing. Or perhaps its a nasty combination of both.
Demonoid is run almost entirely on donations and ad-revenue, and the servers required to handle the traffic it takes in a day are likely expensive enough as it is without attracting the undue attention of the various watchdog groups waiting to take a chunk out of any and every tracker on the net today.
To wonder as to why they don’t have reliable backups is rather elitist – it isn’t run for profit (and, indeed, when Deimos ran Demonoid, it barely cut even, if ever), so an expensive backup plan would be infeasible.
Likely, backups are made and sent offsite, because in the event of a raid on the system, the backups should probably be stored somewhere that can’t be subpoenaed, don’t you think?
Or maybe I’m overcomplicating it all and its just a matter of waiting for a server tech to show up – their ISP/host is willing to allow one of the more popular and targeted bittorrent trackers on their site, so I imagine there must be sacrifices somewhere in the quality department.
German Pirateparty got 2.0%
I’m not too worried. Demonoid will return, eventually. I have 7 accounts with them dating back to 2006, so even if they lose the last few months or a whole year, I’ll be okay.
As for private trackers… well, if your connection has a limited upload speed, those sites want you to sit there and upload when there are no leechers… for days! F*ck private trackers, their selections suck and so do their attitudes and policies. Most of them are run by a bunch of a$$h013$.
Demonoid is semi-private, anyone can get an account if they know someone who has one — just ask, nicely. And they still open up for registration now and then… monthly now, I think.
Demonoid has the best indexer of any site in the world. Find what you’re looking for, fast and easy. And their torrents aren’t full of fake $h17 and malware like TPB and other public trackers.
I agree with one poster who said that this may not be a hardware problem at all… stay tuned. There may be internal personnel problems or problems with the local officials (or non-officials (mafia).
Demonoid sucks
Demonoid is down? That’s weird,,, hmmm, works for me.
ive been there a long tyme! ill still have my account! lol Long Live Demonoid!!!!!!
There were too busy trying to keep the site available to a select few and scramble the fucking invitation code, they forget to take a backup.
Registrations are closed.
Damn, me having only registered in August means i aint gonna have an account now, and i don’t know if i can get another invite code :(
I hope they are willing to let people in my situation re-join.
man that horrible
When I first started downloading TPB and Demonoid were the ones I went to the most. Every now and then I would hear some elitist talk of a private tracker. Just one thing though. How the heck do you get on to a private tracker anyways?
http://fxg-torrents.blogspot.com
Hope they come back soon. I miss them. :(
@71
No, it’s not actually old news.
Check the homepage on demonoid. The update was on the 26TH!!!
TorrentFreak already did a post saying it was down when it was down..
Trelew: “Every now and then I would hear some elitist talk of a private tracker. Just one thing though. How the heck do you get on to a private tracker anyways?”
Yep. On the other hand: how the heck to you get on Demonoid when their registrations are closed 99,999% of the year?
Forget the invites: you already need to be acquainted to one of their members. If you don’t know anyone of them, you’re out in the cold, just like with closed and secretive private trackers.
I sympathize with their members who now feel the pain of that long maintenance, but FWIW, to the rest of us outsiders, they (or more precisely their website which is the only thing that is useful, as everybody could run an opentracker daemon on their machines if need be) are as closed as any other private tracker out there.
Something else is going on here. It’s way too easy to create multiple layers of backups these days, and for relatively little money. Drives and other hardware are low-cost commodities as well, and I’d be very, very surprised if they’re running on a single server.
Between RAID, disk-based backups, tape, online backups, replication, and all the other solutions out there, many being very cost effective, it seems that there must be something else behind this.
Demonoid is a great tracket and a great community. I, for one, am glad that Policeman has his private tracker so he doesn’t need to screw up ours.
The people at Demonoid are seriously stuck up fags.
I hope demonoid comes back soon, I don’t care if torrents are missing, they can always be re-uploaded, it’s the site itself that counts.
Hi. Im new to torrenting altogether, found this site while looking for demoniod updates and wanted to join the discussion.
* When the Iran election horrors started surfacing, I came across some horrific video footage whose uploaders asked that people please seed the “torrents”, and the link on the vid included the demoniod url. I clicked and saw that you had to be a member. I clicked register and registered. Demonoid registration, apparently, was open.
*Reading this now, I sense that I was pretty lucky. I understand that it opens for a few hours every month, so I can only assume that anyone who hasn’t been able to get in could do so as easily as I did, if it’s that time of the month (no pun intended lol)
*I have not gotten any ability to issue invitations. I don’t personally know anyone else who torrents (to my knowledge)so if I did get any, I would come here and offer them to people who seem to have been waiting the longest. You probably don’t care, but I just wanted to say that.
* Once in, I discovered many items that I had been unable to find elsewhere. I also discovered that
there was a subset of people looking for items I already had, that were equally impossible to find elsewhere.
DISCLAIMER: Of course I would never dream of uploading or downloading anything legal authorities would frown on.
* That said, I do like my privacy. I would be grateful to anyone who might care to answer some questions I have, and I’ll bet there are more people like me who don’t know these answers. Even if you just want to answer by saying “google x, y or z” that at least would tell me what search terms to use:
1. For the part of demonoid or rapidshare(et al)where I can donate, upgrade to paid membership or otherwise financially support the site, can I do so in any way that does not leave a record of my name or ip address? I have vmware on my (secondhand) computer, but never tried it. I also have heard that there are proxy login sites (portals?). and I figured I can just buy one of those visa cards at a supermarket and use that number to pay. Does any of this sound like the right thing to use?
2. Same question for uploading torrents and/or for seeding. Can I do it by some kind of proxy site or via vmware? Is the same risk run by seeding as by uploading?
3. Finally, for the incomplete torrents I have, how do I use the trackers suggested by MrGristle4 in #61 above? Just make a text file of them like the one demonoid includes? or do so and change the extention to .torrent?
4. If anyone here knows any way to pass a message to demonoid that if they put up a donation link on their current “maintenance/update” page … I will be happy to donate funds to help. I get the feeling others will too.
5. Thank you for any answers and best of luck to those waiting to join demonoid. I really like it and trust it.
Torrenting is a gamble, ppl who think they can hide their IP are wrong. Uploading comes with all the same risks as downloading. PRIVATE TRACKERS ARE NOT SAFER.
bad news for torrenty types, i have a demonoid account but i hardly ever use it unless i’m desperate…its so sloooow….the only one true way is USENET.
hahahahaha.
One of the biggest sites in the world – but there’s just one guy who can fix stuff when things go wrong, and that one guy is “unavailable.”
My dog could run demonoid better than these idiots and/or that one guy.
#141: I know WTF
#141 – why not buy the stuff that these “idiots” are happy to make available to you for nothing. That way you and your dog wouldn’t get upset.
when the site goes back up if anyone who just started an account needs help to get back on hit me up for an invite code.
long live demonoid.
Too many imbeciles plugging their own websites and crap. Get over it, folks. Dnoid is down. You WILL live. Now if only the ‘community’ would donate $5 (yes, only five stinking U.S. dollars), the site could have better hosting & avoid these types of problems in the first place. Don’t be cheap, dig deep & give!!
01d$k001, your response is one of the stupidest things i have read on the internet in some time.
Those of us that are not leeching scumbags tend to enjoy the insane speeds we get on private trackers.
All of you that use demonoid exclusively are no better then the retards still using limewire. You’re living in the past and have no fucking clue.
Oh and you are definitely safer on a private tracker, anyone that thinks otheriwse has a freaking hole in their head.
You dont even have to be a member of demonoid to leech on a torrent and snag IPs. Even still getting to be a member on demonoid is about as simple as asking on practically every forum on the net or just waiting for a digg story about demonoid (The last few have had hundreds of invites in them).
Time for people to wise up and get a clue. Private trackers are closed communities they are not 100% safe but they are certainly safer than demonoid or any other PUBLIC tracker out there.
@ 137 new torrentor:
To answer your third question: Select the .torrent you want to add trackers to, then – depending on the type of client you’re using – either right-click or select a tab or something, and choose ‘ad trackers’ (or something similar). In the window that opens up, then type or copy/paste your tracker(s) of choice, whereby you need to make sure that you leave a blank line between each entry. After that, click OK, and you’re done. This should probably work in most of the popular BT clients.
Good luck!
@Myballs #147: How many times do people have to say in is thread that they don’t use private trackers because the selections SUCK badly and are geared toward 15 yr old boys…AND private trackers log IP’s which is retarded and very UNSAFE. I suppose these facts still aren’t getting through your dense head. so tell me, how many more times people will have to explain this to you.
I have accounts with at least 5 of the top private trackers, and a couple accounts with some of those impossible to get in hidden private trackers, and I prefer demonoid any day. Because of selection, private trackers have very poor selections because they are so small and because they are full of teenage fan bois.
o my god……listen to you guys hating on Demonid! Its funny you can tell the people that cant get a code to get on and us who can and love that site!! Quick FYI, Help support the site, every now and then give a few buck! It helps keep the site up and running. Lol it looks like they need a few bucks for a new backup!!
it’s amazing how gay the people who brag about private trackers are.
151 – Right on, man. Demonoid is by far the fastest download site i have ever come across. If you’re bitching, it’s because you can’t get on Demonoid.
Because of this problem they are fixing does this mean that because I joined inlate august, that my account will be deleted?
only damn p2p n00bz use demonoid.
sceners like myself run this shit all day everyday niggaz
Only internet fags spell like #154…Looks like gay nerds on parade typed that.
Please take off sites like bite my torrent off any lists that are alt. to tpb.
As a niche site it hardly can be comparied to tpb.
Also the unwanted traffic has caused the site to loose its web host.
Demonoid already moved their servers 3 times due to legal matters, so I’m not ruling this possibility out.
The hardware failure and lack of a recent backup sounds like a pretty good cover up to me.
Months of data-loss is a blessing for me. Most ADSL connections have terrible upload speeds (448kbps) here in the UK, technology is old – and uses an ancient telephone network for broadband (BT sucks balls).
Now those huge torrents I’ve completed won’t affect my ratio. A shame for most people though, a better backup plan should have been in place I suppose – the least they could have done was post an apology on the site for those who will be affected.
ALWAYS public trackers, they are the best. i do my part and seed, if you do yours, we’ll have it all.
so don’t forget to share, it’s important for you as well!
also
wherever you find a demonoid torrent add pure trackers to it. and if you can re-up that torrent with the new trackers added, do so. if you are the seeder of that torrent you’ll be bringing it back to life again. a bit of a hero i should say.
thank you
I miss demonoid……
I need my fix!!!
Problem here is the some people will loose their accounts. U/D-Ratio isn’t that important. You’ve downloaded/uploaded before, you’ll do it again. Hope they fix it soon.
what happend with demonoid when it come back i am still wating here?
anyone have info on last torrents . com
This is why you should back up your data… These guy’s should know better.
Every time I donate to a torrent site, they either go under or get scammed within!
Maybe I should just be greedy? ;)
Not backing up! This is what happens when we become complacent. Humble end users can be excused to some degree, but a respected and highly important service provider of this ilk should know better. That said I don’t know the whole details. Demonoid we miss you like heck. Get back asap.
143. Spot on. Well said my friend
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Demonoid is the GEAR, Daddy-Os. VERY LITTLE malware unless you’re DLing apps, then you really get what you paid for.
Rare and unavailable movies and TeeVee, which ALWAYS COMPLETE. Unlike like SO MANY “public” trackers. EVERY AXXO film “he” ever rippped.
If you couldn’t get on, you’re just MAD about the exclusion. Try harder. It’s the place to be.
The swarms sometimes get infected, but if you’re not trying to DL the latest, newest movie, then you don’t have much to worry about.
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Not backing up on a regular basis causes sites yo go down, especially when they’re host site is prone to power problems.
That is why I always recommend a good Uninterpretable Power Supply and setting up the Back up Software to do weekly and monthly backups. This way when something does happen, you loose at most 1 week’s worth of Data and not month’s worth of Data. I know for all the nay sayers out there, that Demonoid is not a Corporate IT Department, or anything like that, but some common sense in this area will hep prevent them from going down for long periods of time. If they’ve been down for this long, then I suspect we’ll not be seeing them return much before the end of the month.
i like demonoid cause its got everything,just glad im on torrent leech….
@50
Love your response, we all know the Police…LOL
I have been a member of Demonoid for 4 Years, and have seen Demonoid come and go, But Demonoid Always Returns, just might take some time?
Long Live the Best Torrent Site EVER!!
@MyBalls
LMFAO, let go of Your Balls!!!
I can’t really imagine how life would be without demonoid.It’s one of the greatest innovations i’ve come across.Long live Demonoid and God Bless Demonoid.I wish Demonoid quick recovery
can someone e mail me some invites pls stanley.knife.from.slsk@gmail.com
thaankz
#174..can you read?
I feel your pain cause im feelin kinda white and nerdy.
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