Mininova Down, to Return Stronger Than Ever Before
Written by Ernesto on November 17, 2008Mininova, the leading BitTorrent search engine, has been offline for most of the day. Inevitably, BitTorrent addicts having been getting nervous, worrying about what is happening at the same time as they long for their daily fix. We have good news for them, the wait is almost over and when the site returns it will do so, fully prepared for the future.
Similar to The Pirate Bay, Mininova is experiencing a traffic surge. Since August, the number of visitors has grown by approximately 35%, to almost 5 million every day. It come as no surprise that such an increase is stretching the limits of the hardware setup.
Over the past few months, the number of .torrent downloads have also been growing steadily. In September we reported that 10 million torrents were downloaded in a single day, but this figure quickly increased to 12 million just a few weeks later.
To cope with this growing demand, Mininova updated their server park today, and moved all the data to a brand new setup. Initially, only a few hours of downtime were expected, but Mininova co-founder Erik told us that they ran into some problems along the way. “One of the critical machines refused to boot after we transferred the data, because the table with volume information got corrupted,” Erik told us.
Erik further said that the site is coming back slowly. All the data is transferred, and they are currently tweaking the servers to get the site running smoothly again. When everything is back up again, Mininova’s setup will be more easy to scale, and totally prepared for the future – whatever that may hold.
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good news for public n00bs
It feels faster now than before
@ ruinyourlife
Thanks for probably the most retarded post we’ll read today.
Great job Mininova, good to see you going from strength to strength. Keep up the great work.
Both Mininova & The Bay are in a league of their own. Keep it up guyz
It is alot faster now Good job…
I was actually wondering why MININOVA was down for so long. Thanks for taking the time to update us Erik/ernesto.
YAY!
I guess that they have not prepared before for maintenance, changes, and scaling of software. I wonder how they changed it.
Roze
http://www.10ch.org/
i can honsetly say ive never used it, and eztv…..quit using it when they decided to use public trackers,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
torrent upload isn’t working for me :(
@3 said: “Great job Mininova, good to see you going from strength to strength.”
Thanks for probably the most retarded and ignorant post we’ll read today.
“Both Mininova & The Bay are in a league of their own. Keep it up guyz”
How sad – loaded with malware & PPI, low quality files, fakes and ultimately slow as shit and you simply don’t know any better.
http://www.pay-per-install.org/pay-per-install/380-guide-getting-started-ppi-start-2-finish.html
Thanks for probably the most stupid post we’ll read today. Meanwhile the non-retarded amongst us will download from private trackers if we use Bittorrent. OR avoid Bittorrent all together and download from Usenet… fu_ck you’re are a retard – yet you’re so clueless you have no idea and think your smart.
Newzbin = 267,000+ verified NZB downloads with 4,500,000 more to sort through. So just about everything new, most things old (across every concievable format & type), just about everything released in the scene, a massive amount of non-scene… and every single file can be downed as fast as any home internet can handle it.
Your crowing about the shittiest alternative out there that, incidentally, has massive amounts of money being made through ads: on the site but more through malware that has become epidemic.
It’s not just been today they have been down, they’ve been going offline on and off most of the week.
Or, so I’m told :)
What? It was gone? lol. Private trackers FTW :D
nets are win :D
But my favorite pvt tracker went down, it makes me sad :(
I for one use it and love it. Everything I could want is available. If I don’t trust a tracker listed, I remove it from the torrent. I use others like Demonoid, but always find myself back at Mininova. No shame.
Er, it aint the trackers you need to worry about, its any exe or archive you download. Changing trackers has no effect whatsoever…
Their not even a tracker,its just a search engine.It cannot possible take that long to get it up…
@21 And you are an illiterate, frustrated little wanker.
@12: “you’re are a retard – yet you’re so clueless you have no idea and think your smart.” lol, oh man…thank you so much. that was so funny that I laughed for 10 mins straight. I needed that
Waaaaahh mininova Waaaaahhhh TPB Waaaahh PPI Waaaaaaaahh malware Waaaaaahh low quality files Waaaaahh fakes Waaaahh slow speeds Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
So anyway, NubCakes (now NC for short) says: “Because you can’t see the difference between giving one single copy to someone you know and thousands of copies to complete strangers who then give thousands more copies out”.
..and is called on it by user ‘Me’ (#37), who replies: “You’re seriously suggesting that torrent users seed between 700GB and 1.3TB for each film they download?”
NC backpeddles furiously; “No, where did I suggest that?”
Erm…… Lemme think. perhaps in “The Very Last Thing You Said ™”?
NC, torrents aren’t given out in bunches – they’re _shared_. That’s the whole point. It’s a mathematical function, a geometric progression, an exponential curve. Your ‘thousands’ happen towards the end of the sharing cycle – you just misinterpret the data (once again,
no surprise there).
NC: “And OK, 1000’s is a gross exaggeration but the principle still stands.”
No it doesn’t. EOS.
NC: “With the average tracker user you’d be lucky if they seeded back 20% actually though…”
Oh reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally…
I sense a lying cunt
I went to see the the dark knight at the cinema & thought is was a bit average. Seeing the trailer in the months before it looked to be pretty damn crazy, maybe it was censored/watered down after HL’s death???
Anyway still worth viewing & hope it wins many awards as its better than most films that were released this year.
wrong article!!
Good luck with the future Mininova
Grow up
@28 : So anyway, NubCakes (now NC for short) says: “Because you can’t see the difference between giving one single copy to someone you know and thousands of copies to complete strangers who then give thousands more copies out”.
What – what the fuck are you talking about: oh wait, you’ve been retarded enough to post your reply in the wrong comment section. Smart.
” ..and is called on it by user ‘Me’ (#37), who replies: “You’re seriously suggesting that torrent users seed between 700GB and 1.3TB for each film they download?”
NC backpeddles furiously; “No, where did I suggest that?” ”
OK, you’re obviously a know nothing that thinks public trackers are great and is clueless and also you apparently can’t see sarcasm when it’s shoved into your face. Because I never posted that – you still haven’t worked out that in your confused yet? So go to the other story where it was actually posted and read dunce.
NC, torrents aren’t given out in bunches – they’re _shared_. That’s the whole point. It’s a mathematical function, a geometric progression, an exponential curve.”
Stop dribbling shit and using words you obviously don’t know the meaning of – everything is a mathematical function (so fucking what), it isnt a geometric progression (look at the definition you dipshit) and it isn’t exponential you stupid cocksucker – torrents dont get faster and faster and faster forever. They start slow, get faster and then slow down. If anything it’s a Bell curve but seeing as yuo’re pulling words out of your arse to cover your own appearance of stupidity, you wouldn’t know that
“Your ‘thousands’ happen towards the end of the sharing cycle – you just misinterpret the data (once again, no surprise there).”
Wait, I don’t get it – first your saying that I’m compltely wrong and now your saying that thousands of copies are given out as I said… WTF are you trying to say?
Next time try to reply in the comment section where you read the text taht your replying to. Don’t pretend to be intelligent by pulling big words out – when they fail to make sense it makes you look stupid.
Keep up the good work guys,im gonna download some files from you guys & TPB right now..
Torrents have increased in volume ever since tv streaming became more of a struggle. Remember when divx stage6 went down? ISPs started throttling connections to the other similar sites and then all of a sudden !!!!!!!!!!!! MEGAVIDEO which has conquered all of the good stuff. So its not really a big surprise that their has been a big increase in P2P traffic, because MEGAVIDEO is a complete and absolute load of shit. Mininova have responded well to this situation considering what they are up against. Thumbs up to ya guys.
@21, don’t watch movie trailers I immediately stopped that after watching trailers for Hancock and Hulk, both trailers spoiled the film. Trailers are a plague upon a good industry.
@1 & 12, very good points, and funny to see others arguing over it. Private trackers are the way forward, just like Usenet – premium content fast and at your actual connection speed. I’m luckily signed upto all the major private trackers from which i found through the search engine that is Mininova. Mininova is great sometimes for finding a torrent. But n00bs really need to be told that it’s a bit rubbish. A bit like loving public transport based on its convenience when you’ve never driven a car before.
Uploaders like Axxo make my torrent blood boil, yes they are supplying transcodes that conveniently fit onto 1cd for playing on a divx deck, but they are transcodes from release groups that supply a better (illegal) product (with higher video bittrates) which can be found on private sites.
re Elliot comber, your right, AXXO is getting highly suspect lately
wtf is up with this anti-public campaign? if you don’t like it, don’t use it. If you find yourself getting emotionally involved in issues of what trackers others use, you should probably turn off the computer and go outside for a while.
I can wait 5 minutes for a movie to finish via public torrents, or a tvshow in 2 minutes, why on earth would anyone bother finding private tracker accounts is beyond me, waste of time.
“tojans, virii”, did you download a suspicious RAR files and feel bad about it? Learn how to use the internet.
“low quality files, fakes”, read comments, dl via torrentz.com verification system, dl samples, again learn how to use the internet.
“and ultimately slow as shit”, poor connection? Really old files? You can get recent porn too you know.
Also noticed an increase in retard replies, I’ll blatantly suggest using accounts and scrapping anonymous posts, tbh.
@28 : I couldn’t agree more with all your posts. Indeed, the more noobs get told that Mininova is pretty crappy the better as hopefully some will start to explore a little more.
@31 : “tojans, virii”, did you download a suspicious RAR files and feel bad about it? Learn how to use the internet.
Unfortunately PPI/malware uploaders are getting a lot smarter by using cryptors that encrypt using a unique key for every instance – meaning that nobody – regardless of expertise or methods – can detect the presence of malware until runtime. If the bundled exe is extremely new nobody can detect that at runtime either. Learning or not.
IMHO the best search tool is to use the Bit Che application. It searches public trackers and if you have memberships private trackers as well. To use the private trackers it’s best to visit the official forum and down the latest plugin for the particular site.
Public trackers are slower than private trackers as a general rule for obvious reasons. As anybody who uses good private trackers will know – I get the feeling that some people here have not but defend public trackers because they wish to feel they are using something good and have parts of their well-being tied up to this feeling.
Everything is slow as hell. Lots of files infected. Mininova used to have cleaner files. Now the seeders have f’d off, speeds are slow and the site is down. I doubt anything will improve.
sorry no comments
OUtstanding, I can hardly wait! one of the best BT sites anywhere, next to PB of course.
JW
http://www.internet-privacy.pl.tc
Well the torrents are increasing because the economy is going to crap and no one wants to pay for anything. Torrents FTW.
http://www.boobyvideo.com
NubCakes, you’re the only retard here. Paying to pirate shit on usenet the rest of us are getting for free. Seriously, why the fuck do you usenet faggots feel the need to brag about how much better newgroups are compared to public trackers? Smug motherfuckers with no life, try leaving your mom’s basement from time to time instead of trolling here.
Do you think this ’surge’ is due to the poor economy?
Isn’t anybody upset about all these outages, it seems that all their outages are always to improve the site (suspicious) I work in IT and upgrades never go this bad, they should spend a little more time planning and a little extra cash in a redundant system.
Good luck MiniNova, world needs you, oh and thank you.
Awsome mininovas site is faster I will visit more! All you assholes(even tho it’s prolly just one loser doing it) on here need to leave. Your opinion is not valued and you ruin the comments saying the same dumb stuff. So please go away sorry for calling you names but please?
@20: Do you even know what a Geometric progression is?
Torrent traffic is similar to a exponential function, but over time that disappears, seeders drop the torrent, it dies out, etc.
@24: So yes, traffic would look like a bell shaped curve.
@32: You think private trackers are a waste of time? My friend, I believe it is you who needs to learn how to use the internet
ok there are 2 types people flaming eachother here
1, private tracker monkey who got an invite to HUEHUEHUEJAJAJATRACKER.BR
2, people who not only want to download stuff but share back for the good of the human race (i always go for double digit ratio on public trackers, sometimes nearing 3digit if the swarm is able to drain my full bw).
these discussions always start for no reason.
if you are a member of a private tracker why do you feel the need to SPAM this fact to other people?
it’s getting a bit annoying.
i’m a member of serveral private trackers including the biggest for scene/hd/music respectively.
i have never felt the need to annoy other people by telling them. could you please stop doing it?
to the people complaining about speeds: when i get on a fairly new torrent with a lot of peers my download speed is about 1/4 of the max.
maybe you should try to find an isp that offers fiber?
@NubCakes
Why don’t you learn a little grammar before you start talking about how “retarded” everyone else is? Also, learn how to spell, jackass.
@ 10: thanks for your input. i just like free and i like mininova.
The torrents are increasing because Mininova doesn’t clean old dead torrents much if at all.
I use to share uploads I posted from the noid. And when I asked to have my old dead torrents taken off they stayed up & are still there years later as far as I know.
Back then I also would use Mininova and take off trackers from the string that where suspect.
Now I just go to the trusted trackers & stay with users I trust.
I love ‘nova. Its one of my favorite sites. Funny thing this news story is posted right above the one about The Dark Knight. TPB+’nova=greatest tor sites on the net!
You guys need to stop telling all your little fucking homies about the site so we dont get all those fucking noob ass bitches on the site.
It’s down again?
punkito,
http://punkito.com/
i am new to downloading movies and confused as hell about what to use to get the movies. I have been using mininova and find it slow. Can someone tell me what is a good place to get movies geesh
I like to know from where the money comes..
While this update will be diferent from the one of Iplan we’ll be fine..
bye
3 years user from Argentina
“Stronger than ever”?
EVERY WEEK they’re on “maintenance”.
Just state “they are currently on maintenance”. PERIOD. I lobe mininova but we could all dispense with the propaganda..
I’m a homo and I swallow
Oh! I almost forgot…GULP
vous êtes super bon. long life to mininova
SOOOO WHAT
gracias a dios!!! thank god!!, lol… i ll be wating all the time.. thanks for the info….
I cannot get to the site at al, i get an error. Does anybody know what is going on. Can anybody help me please?
Hey guys, been trying to get on the site for the last 24 hours, nothing is coming up. Are they dead or something? Looking for anyone that has some info. thanx!
The Site Is Definitely Coming Back Slowly But Surely, A Few Sql Errors But I Am Sure You Clever Guys And Girls At Mininova Are Working On It, Because I Need My Mininova Fix, Anyway Keep Up The Great Work You All Do, And thanks For The Best Torrent Site On The Net, Even Better Than Pirateg@y And IsoC|_|NT.
Whats up with mininova? Cant they get a server installed in 8 days????
Sick of seeing the “under maintenance” page.
For the past 2 week, since mini updated their web servers.. it has crashed more times than anything I’ve ever seen. Good work guys. I stopped going to your site. Please get your s@$# working.
It feels faster now than before
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