Mininova.org Servers and Traffic: 2006 vs 2007
Written by Ernesto on October 04, 2007Mininova.org has experienced some massive growth over the past year. The number of visitors went up from less than a million per day to 3 million, and to keep everything running smoothly the server park nearly tripled from 7 to 19 servers.
Mininova is without a doubt the most popular BitTorrent site in terms of traffic. According to Alexa they are among the 100 most visited sites on the Internet, more popular than Digg.com, Apple.com and TorrentFreak.com for example.
In September Mininova received over 70.000.000 visitors that generated more than 300.000.000 pageviews, and they’re still growing. In October the number of daily visitors gets close to 3 million a day which means that they can get close to 100 million visitors this month.
And there are some changes if we compare 2006 and 2007
Many people might wonder what is needed to keep a site like this running, so did we, and we asked the Mininova team for an update. Last time we did a post about Mininova’s server setup they had 7 servers in total, but times have changed. As you can see in the picture below (click to enlarge), Mininova is now running on an impressive 19 servers.
More info about the servers can be found over here; they really like Opteron. I’m really curious how many servers they will need a year from now. We’ll keep you updated.
Niek, thanks for your amazing Visio skills.
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Wow. Impressive…
What about hosting in Denmark? Do they govern strict Copyright laws??
Mininova is the best! I download almost everything from there :)
” With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility ” … Ben Parker
lets all hope they use their power well
And the haters are always going to go after the top dog.
Gud luck Mininova ur going to need it.
….. >:P ….
” Sorry OJ Johnny’s dead” … o_O
cantarstrike
Mininova is awesome they are the best at removing fake torrents out of any site i have been to
[quote comment="181513"]Well, according to my measurements, which serves a similar audience;
75000 pageviews a month only assures you with about 100 euro, because your visitors are the smart anti-advertising crowd, rarely see or look at ads, let alone click on them).
So, extrapolating that to their 100 million “visitors”, guessing they count hits instead of actual page-loads, I’m roughly estimating they make about €20000,- a month, clean, after taxes.
If you look at prices for leaseweb, you can partly guess what the expenses are, but they won’t be more than half of that (including ALL hardware bills), so they’ll have 10000 euros to share among themselves EACH month!
Of course, they’ll try everything to deny this. Just like TPB did before.[/quote]
So what? They do a great job feeding us with torrents. I don’t care how much they make every month or day, all I want is free entertainment and Mininova make it possible.
hallao
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[quote comment="180966"]I love how the internet in the pictures are tubes![/quote]
I think Mininova is down soon :-(
They will be sued within days.
So how are is it to use torrents ?
I run http://www.buyblogreviews.com and want to start a torrent site :)
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