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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yes, i am a noob. i have been using isohunt, tpb, and btjunkie for about a year.
i used to be one that d/l’ed for personal use. movies, apps, games, etc.
then i got the funny idea that if I shared more I would be rewarded with faster d/l’s and access to more content for my searches. how little i knew then, but i do realize the importance of sharing, well… at least give back a lil more than i took. so now all my ratios are at least 1.0 to 10.0 depending on the torrent.
but fear and not knowing what is out there that can harm me has limited my understanding. using Cox cable (SE US) I worry that my bandwidth is being monitored or throttled. sharing and karma for torrents is great. rare files are great to come by and would be impossible if people didn’t share. i am thankful for that and hope to contribute.
however, when the excrement hits the air conditioning, will torrent community bail me out? will that fact that i had good karma ratios aid my defense? probably not. something we all run the risk of happening.
so, i guess my question is that, will private sites offer anything more than faster d/l’s, specific content, or ratio do-gooders? or are they more secure, virus free, and educational w/o all the ego? after all, what good is an ego in a realm w/ anon usage?
have fun with this post,
sincerely,
the afterburned
It’s funny how some of these ignorant comments are putting down the ISOhunt tracker site. Get your facts straight, ISOhunt is an indexing site and is in no way a tracker site. Isohunt is simply like the google of the torrent world.
isohunt sucks, full of fakes, so what if they index this or that. How do you call a fake dumpsite like isohunt the largest bittorrent site, bulljangle, it is noob site to get caught and fined by anti-p2p as it is like I said full of fakes.
Isohunt isnt a dump site asshat. The only fakes on isohunt are other sites fakes. If isohunt indexes a fake from TPB before they bother getting around to removing it from their tracker, there is fuck all the isohunt staff can do about that untill someone reports is as being fake and it is either flagged as fake so others can avoid it, or the staff remove it from the index. So yet again, another moron that doesnt know wtf they’re talking about.
I dont see why 1 million torrents are a big achievement….
When I ran a torrent search engine, I had 40 million torrents indexed in less than a month…
“So yet again, another moron that doesnt know wtf they’re talking about.”
You breakin my heart noob
[quote comment="304109"]I dont see why 1 million torrents are a big achievement….
When I ran a torrent search engine, I had 40 million torrents indexed in less than a month…[/quote]
Whats the smell? sniff sniff… ahh thats it - the smell of bullshit.
haha, 40 million in one month. Can u give me the url plz? how come others havent heard of this?
totally agree with 57
:P
http://tftb.net
Isohunt gone good now.
I remember some 6 mnths back when I used to use Isohunt for my Torrent Search.I used to end up with torrents having very less amount of trackers and the statistics were always wrong. But now, I was amazed it all great.
Isohunt deserves it.:D
i been using isohunt from the beginning and it is unrivalled as a search engine if you know how to use it
unfriendly as the interface is they are trying hard to improve it
well done Gary, keep up the lead dude
At the end of the day bitorrent rules but a far cry from torrentspys early days before the changes, even mininova isnt as good as that was, we are just limited to a handfull and mininova is one of them. Just glad it exists
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