Comments on: Mininova Downtime Puts BitTorrent Sites Under Pressure

By: BitTorrent’s Achilles’ Heel « NewTeeVee

BitTorrent’s Achilles’ Heel « NewTeeVee — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:02:54 +0000

[...] downtime, which led to millions of users flooding other BitTorrent web sites. The P2P news web site Torrentfreak reported that Mininova was getting over 3 million unique visitors per day, and the resulting surge in [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:35:32 +0000

last phrase was think about THAT mininova staff …sorry

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:47:59 +0000

Ahh that’s sad cauz it’s simply the best there is whith the only decent internal search engins …all others (especially privates ones) are completly dumb search engin that give about anything execpt what you demanded …thoses should be put down forever (of course i didn’t check all there is out there so maybe the’re are some with decent stuff) witch i seriously doubt cauz they all have the same shitty search engins …even the way they put their stuff is all wrong and messy up to now i’ve only seen mininova doing things right and justto add something it would of been perfect if they could do a special section for other damn languages like damn spanish and german who are parasiting the good stuff …anyway before you say anything i’m french so yes it would be good to have a french section too …think about mininova staff ??? ok bye

By: Mininova's Traffic Doubles in a Year | Clint Is A Geek.com

Mininova's Traffic Doubles in a Year | Clint Is A Geek.com — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:54:23 +0000

[...] their hardware numerous times. Unfortunately the current setup still has some weak spots. Yesterday Mininova went down for over 12 hours due to hardware [...]

By: Mininova Downtime Puts BitTorrent Sites Under Pressure | Clint Is A Geek.com

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:54:31 +0000

[...] Mininova Downtime Puts BitTorrent Sites Under Pressure [...]

By: h33t

h33t — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:14:53 +0000

mininova is awesome

a great dump site

no blip in traffic at http://www.h33t.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:47:30 +0000

[quote comment="363430"]torrentz is the one to go[/quote]

Most of the time i use torrentz, but it just brings be links to mininova so its a vicious circle.

By: newsguy

newsguy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:49:58 +0000

mininova is back online!

By: fredygamer

fredygamer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:48:37 +0000

Ignore omg. telling them to hurry up is one of the worst thing a leecher can say.

By: mymnm

mymnm — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:14:37 +0000

best torrent sites 2008 : http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Best_torrent_sites_of_2008

By: igi

igi — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:51:15 +0000

is isohunt down too?

By: Isohunter

Isohunter — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:44:50 +0000

Just go to isohunt!

By: Rycon

Rycon — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:42:59 +0000

Wow, pretty crazy. It also shows what will happen if you take down a site.. these people arent just going to disappear.

By: who gives a monkeys

who gives a monkeys — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:38:43 +0000

seriously, all sites have a bit fo downtime every so often, this “news article” really is scraping the barrel, i mean WTF? If anyone is seriously affected by mininova downtime your need to get psychological help…try using a different fuckign site ! >_<

By: Seedpeer

Seedpeer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:34:45 +0000

Just to clarify, what meant was triple (3x more traffic) but I was wrong we had at some point over 4x more traffic then usual. Hope we’re clear on that one ;)

By: Blah

Blah — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:01:10 +0000

People, an increase of 200% is triple the original. For instance, if someone said that the traffic of a site increased by 100%, it’s clear that the traffic has doubled. So, using 2nd grade addition, it’s easy to see that a 200% increase is triple the original figure.

By: Seedpeer

Seedpeer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:28:23 +0000

Hmm they were for a minute :(

By: Seedpeer

Seedpeer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:27:16 +0000

Mininova is back, congratz!

By: santoscrew

santoscrew — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:10:43 +0000

[quote comment="363275"]If that happened we’d all be relegated to p2p and blogs. I believe WinMX is still operating ;)[/quote]

wow winmx :o. i forgot that one even existed!

By: Mininova is down - Pay Per Install

Mininova is down - Pay Per Install — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:33:31 +0000

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By: SUMO

SUMO — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:07:26 +0000

SUMOTorrent dot com is up and running :)

By: TorSnipe

TorSnipe — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:01:52 +0000

http://www.torrentsnipe.info – New site, but slowly growing. :)

By: alexis

alexis — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:53:29 +0000

i think they will add video stream :P
until then check my tracker: http://tracker.btarena.org
and reply with your feedback.
Also i like if torrentfreak team will make a review of.
It’s online just for 2 weeks, if you want more info contact me or ask here.

By: mierda media

mierda media — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:43:30 +0000

I have not found anything I want on MN going back for a long time.
But I don’t look at all the torrents just the main page. (lazy on my part).

By: I'mSoGeeky

I'mSoGeeky — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:07:55 +0000

Mr.Spock : We need more Speed
Engineer (With an Irish accent) : Im trying my best but your hoping for a miracle

Its like a bad ep of Star Trek.

By: andyness

andyness — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:48:34 +0000

200% equals doubled.

By: MarXian

MarXian — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:41:49 +0000

Mininova sucks !!

By: omg

omg — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:52:47 +0000

hurry up and get running again wtf!

By: Beaulieu

Beaulieu — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:26:51 +0000

torrentz is the one to go

By: malas22

malas22 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:03:22 +0000

HOLY CRAP!!!!! say it isn’t so!!!

By: HIBRID

HIBRID — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:53:27 +0000

Lame…just when I was going upload content to the featured distribution service, it goes down. Go figure.

By: Dimagus

Dimagus — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:44:37 +0000

Where’s the orange signs with “Right Lane Closed” as they work on the tubes?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:49:46 +0000

BitTorrent IS decentralised.. It’s just a single website that is down. Mininova is just one site, out of countless torrent sites.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:26:04 +0000

TPB > MN

the end

By: Zoness

Zoness — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:22:01 +0000

This is a lot like Demonoid in the sense that the public torrent community can be considerably slowed down when a major site goes down. There needs to simply be more sites out there but given the status of file sharing in most countries, plus the needed resources, it’s just not happening fast enough.

By: Fugazi

Fugazi — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:56:19 +0000

How about we take the hydra concept beyond the threat Hercules posed to it. The ancient hydra could grow heads and it was poisonous. The real hydra (check out the wikipedia) can grow tentacles and it’s poisonous. However, it has one other advantage. It can reproduce asexually. Yeah, I assume it ain’t no fun to do that, but it’s a strategy where the offspring inherit exactly the same genes from the parent.

Assuming the trackers are important because they take the time to learn about the fakers and how to fend them off. This knowledge could be inherited by those who connect to the tracker. So, a leecher could “inherit” the “genes” from a tracker and take them home. Okay, that’s not very hygienic, I admit.

Instead of a DHT cloud with no knowledge about parasites, this asexual reproduction could produce a lot of little trackers. They run on millions of home computers and serve a couple of seeders and leechers each. The cloud should not be split up among the trackers of course. After some time these trackers die, because the strategies how to keep the fakers away will be obsolete and new strategies need to be learned from “real” trackers.

By: SujithNFS

SujithNFS — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:35:20 +0000

I can’t live without mininova.
Come back sooooooooon!

By: LATCHAPE

LATCHAPE — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:09:36 +0000

VIVE MININ

By: Fugazi

Fugazi — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:04:48 +0000

Hey, watch out. The apostle Matthew is loosing faith. Prayer won’t make more trackers appear. God doesn’t do file sharing. It’s our challenge to grow the apple trees and pass the apples around.

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:02:12 +0000

[quote comment="363271"][quote comment="363252"]We’ve seen an increase of over 200% but our servers are holding up just fine.[/quote]
Does that mean double or triple?[/quote]
It depends if they mean an addition of 200% or that it increased from the original (100%) TO 200% of the original.

By: LATCHAPE

LATCHAPE — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:01:08 +0000

Temporarily Offline
Due to hardware problems Mininova will be offline for a short while. Please be patient and check back in a couple of hours.

While you are waiting you could visit our Forum or video website Snotr.

Thanks for understanding,
– The Mininova staff

By: nomber

nomber — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:24:53 +0000

Wait, are we all forgetting mininova is just a listing website? Sure it’s great, I agree with that, but these torrents are all tracked somewhere else, many from the pirate bay. I wouldn’t say it’s not “decentralised” in fact that was the excitement about bittorrent in the first place!

By: Julien

Julien — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:18:00 +0000

Here is the weakness of the bittorrent protocol : it is not decentralised…
:-(

At least there is the DHT.

By: Ron Pierce

Ron Pierce — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:55:44 +0000

If that happened we’d all be relegated to p2p and blogs. I believe WinMX is still operating ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:54:39 +0000

[quote comment="363235"]More hydras needed![/quote]
Yep :)

By: Ron Pierce

Ron Pierce — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:51:07 +0000

[quote comment="363252"]We’ve seen an increase of over 200% but our servers are holding up just fine.[/quote]
Does that mean double or triple?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:31:53 +0000

Give us this day our daily torrent.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive them that trespass against us.

By: Seedpeer

Seedpeer — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:23:50 +0000

We’ve seen an increase of over 200% but our servers are holding up just fine.

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:13:12 +0000

I like Mininova. It seems to have more accurate searches and the comments are usually helpful.

By: vvh4t

vvh4t — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:08:01 +0000

larger pipes innit