isoHunt Now Indexes 1 Million Torrents
Written by Ernesto on March 03, 2008The popular BitTorrent site IsoHunt just reached a new milestone, as they now index over 1 million torrents. In total, the torrents on IsoHunt point to 22 million files that all add up to a dazzling 743TB in data.
isoHunt has been around for ages, longer than almost any other BitTorrent site in existence today, and they are still moving forward. Last month they released a new Ajaxy comment and rating system, and today they reached another milestone.
IsoHunt founder Gary Fung writes in their forums: “It has been a long time coming, but with steady growth of active torrents from around the Web (which I’ll call the Torrentsphere from now on if you don’t mind), isoHunt’s index reached the 1 million torrents milestone 2 hours ago.”
Like most other BitTorrent sites, isoHunt’s traffic is not slowing down at all. The site is currently among the 150 most visited websites on the Internet, and listed in the top three most used BitTorrent sites together with The Pirate Bay and Mininova. The increasing popularity also has its downsides though, in this case downtime because the servers can’t keep up.
The record traffic, in combination with the new features, have caused server issues over the past few weeks, and they had to display a “iSohunt is Sick” error message more often than they wanted to. “It’ll be back to normal soon enough,” Gary says, adding “You should seldom see them now that we got most congestion issues solved.”
IsoHunt had a small backlash last year when the isoHunt team had to block access to all US visitors on their TorrentBox and Podtropolis tracker, because of their involvement in a lawsuit initiated by the MPAA. Other than that, things are going great for them.
The increase in BitTorrent’s popularity is far from over yet. The numbers speak for itself, isoHunt indexing a million torrents, The Pirate Bay tracking 10 million peers, and Mininova just had its 4 billionth download.
Good times for the “torrentsphere”.
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pls can i have invite to what.cd
jon.hark@gmail.com
all you guys must have been banned by the mods I take it.
poor babies
Lucky you guys only use three letter names, theres more tards commenting here. isoHunt isn’t a tracker. It has two release systems, one indexed from approx 400 sites, and their own users releases.
Have you tpb lovers ever noticed that the tpb tracker is used more for fakes and domplayer type files than any other tracker now days?
Some of the posters in here are better off not saying anything and just letting people think your a fool, than opening your mouth and removing all doubt!
Aaahahahah! Google is still the biggest crack/appz/p0rn search portal.
Its sad how people feel the need to do a “my torrent site is better than yours” job. Especially when in this case, the torrents from TPB make up only /some/ of the torrents indexed on isoHunt (which is NOT a goddamn tracker noobs).
Intersting stat: roughly 70% of the fake files we spot (or have reported to us) use The Pirate Bay’s tackers. We add a comment system to help YOU people to avoid these fakes more easily and all the majority can do here is bitch like little school kids..
btw i like The Pirate Bay, i think its great. I also know how to avoid a fake file and find comments from originating sites ^_^
(nothing like using hypocricy to argue a point.. i love irony :D )
Hey, not once ever have I logged into my piratebay or isohunt account and found the usual global monthly begging letter from the admins. Public sites exist for the good of the masses, private trackers cater for the minority who are only interested in themselves and are generaly hard of thinking. Getting invited to private sites is easy, some of us know enough of the right people that that is not an issue, but having no real reason to use them tells me that provided you now your ass from your elbow, you dont need a private site account for shit. The only exception to that is specialist sites like Audionews.ru where the majority of the content simply cannot be found on any other site, public or private. They at least serve a true purpose, and again, I neved had a begging letter from them either.
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If the stingy torrent hunters would just give a little donation to a quality private site they would have nothing to cry about..I will guess that the little upset people here praising the public tracker system are the ones that got kicked out of a quality site.
Piss on public trackers Piss on the Bay,Piss on ISOHUNT,piss on Sumo,and piss on the Banned club. I support my home site, I have Awesome speeds and Awesome ratios…Yes I donate to my home site..I belong to the good ratio club. You cry babies belong to the Banned and dont ever come back club. So run along now and go download from ISOHUNT…
isohunt their hunt iso game is so cool
i love catching isos..
public trackers blow…they’re so filled with noobs
[quote comment="303196"]If the stingy torrent hunters would just give a little donation to a quality private site they would have nothing to cry about..I will guess that the little upset people here praising the public tracker system are the ones that got kicked out of a quality site.
Piss on public trackers Piss on the Bay,Piss on ISOHUNT,piss on Sumo,and piss on the Banned club. I support my home site, I have Awesome speeds and Awesome ratios…Yes I donate to my home site..I belong to the good ratio club. You cry babies belong to the Banned and dont ever come back club. So run along now and go download from ISOHUNT…[/quote]
Why do you assume that just because some of us dont feel the need to line the pockets of private site admins that we’re somehow all banned from whatever asshole site you come from. My point is that there is a certain majority of people on every private tracker just like you, who think that being there makes them special is some way. Well you’re not special. The real contributers in the torrent community are not twats like yourself, but those who choose to upload to public sites where their ratio doesnt mean shit.
STFU “so sad” I did not mean to hurt your feelings. I see your a Public tracker kinda guy. I hope you realize that you too are just a hit when it comes to the advertising banners on public trackers. So its safe to say you are providing funds to the admn of public trackers. Foot goes to mouth pretty well Twot. Please try and GET IT RIGHT before you type outloud. I dont want to make you cry little man. But you need to be schooled tonight. So run along now and visit your twin brother on SUMO..
P.s. Puffs are the brand of choice for crying little girls……….
Just a hit? lulz. I dont get banner ads on isohunt, I have an opt out. Besides that no one is forced to see them. In case you havent heard, theres this thing called adblocking. I’ll let you google what it is, it seems like you cound use the educating. Finaly, ads are pay per click, so even if I did have to see ads and didnt know what an ad blocker was, I’d still have to click on most of them to generate them any income. Once again you’ve spoken, but said absolutely nothing. Bravo fool. :D
Whether you find ISOhunt useful or not, it’s good that it exists. Sites like that make it easy for newbies to get started.
And if we really want the “torrentsphere” to take over from official sites, and provide us with data that is free of charge and free of copyright, then it is our duty to use public sites. While private sites serve a purpose, it’s pretty cowardly to hide amongst the criminals that run them. We should all be uploading to public trackers. Our strength is in numbers. If more people seed on public sites, then it’s harder for the lawyers to keep track of who is operating. They can’t sue a million seeders every day, can they?
And another thing…
Why should I donate to a private torrent site? I thought the whole point of torrents was to eliminate the profit motive? If I have to pay money to download software, I’d rather pay it to the original manufacturer than to a shady mafia character running a site in Russia.
If someone is charging you to download torrents, you’re being ripped off. The way torrents work best is if people SHARE. No money needs to change hands.
does iso hunt track torrents?
Or is it just a search engine?
Isohunt is a primarily a torrent search engine, but its not *just* an indexing site, it also hosts torrents and adds new trackers to the relevent torrents as the bot crawls each tracker and sees the torrent on that tracker. The site also allows for the posting of other p2p related links like ed2k and magnet links for releases instead of or as well as torrents. 2 other sites in the isohunt group do run trackers, Podtropolis.com and Torrentboxcom, but isohunt itself does not have a tracker.
Isohunt FTW!
quantity ≠ quality
Isohunt would’ve been better, as would all of them, if instead of requiring 2 clicks which take 5 mins to resolve if you’re already downloading, you can open or save the torrent with one click, and not have to wait while they try to access all the ad sites first. After that you have to get back to the first page again. They could use popup balloons for the content.
I don’t post this stuff on their site as I’ve never been able to join up, no matter what I’ve tried. This would also deter a lot of people from commenting.
die?
[quote comment="303196"]If the stingy torrent hunters would just give a little donation to a quality private site they would have nothing to cry about..I will guess that the little upset people here praising the public tracker system are the ones that got kicked out of a quality site.
Piss on public trackers Piss on the Bay,Piss on ISOHUNT,piss on Sumo,and piss on the Banned club. I support my home site, I have Awesome speeds and Awesome ratios…Yes I donate to my home site..I belong to the good ratio club. You cry babies belong to the Banned and dont ever come back club. So run along now and go download from ISOHUNT…[/quote]
I moderate on public and private sites, im certianlly member of several under various names..
What do i prefer to share with? PUBLIC TRACKERS. People who shoot their guns from their private sites are just antisocial mofo’s. The word “thief” suits them better than “sharer”
I used to use public trackers. ISOHunt, Mininova, TPB. But they all suck tremendously in comparison to private sites. It’s not that hard to get in fellas…
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