Mininova Upgrades Layout, Servers and Office
Written by Ernesto on February 19, 2009Mininova, one of the largest BitTorrent sites on the Internet has relocated to a new office in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Besides the new office Mininova has also made some changes to the site itself, while adding two more servers to cope with the growing demand from its visitors.
One of the most significant changes for the Mininova staff is the new office, located in the city center of Utrecht. The new office has more space than the temporary one they moved into last year. Aside from the five current employees there is room for another two additional staff in the future.
There are more changes at Mininova though. Niek, co-founder of the site told TorrentFreak that they will add two more servers later this week to keep up with the growing number of visitors. Last month they broke another traffic record raking in 734,300,000 page views and more hardware is needed to keep the site running smoothly.
In a blog post the Mininova crew details further improvements to the site, such as a Google’s new button standard, less ads, highlighted search results and the ability to search within a category.
In addition to these new features, Mininova teamed up with VIPeers for a new upload feature. Users with a VIPeers account can upload files straight from their computer, and the VIPeers service will create and seed the torrent before adding it to Mininova.
“The bridge we created enables Mininova users to get a specific VIPeers upload page. After uploading, torrents can be sent to Mininova with one click,” Louis Choquel of VIPeers told TorrentFreak.
With all the drama that’s going on in Sweden at the moment, it’s good to see that it’s still business as usual at Mininova. At least for now.
Mininova’s New Office
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43 Responses
cool ima pay them a visit once, thats only 10 minutes walking :d
Can we come for coffee?
cOOL Nice Office :)
keep it up Mininova We like u
I love the category searching! It makes it as easy as TPB to get the torrent you want.
(Sorry if I double commented, I got an error saying I commented too “fast” when I did my first comment and don’t know if it still went through)
Man I bet that is the most chilled out office.
Pass the bong…
Im currently under the influence of shrooms…can i recieve the bong first?..They have work to do…
i am lovin’torrent
Love rules!!
Making out with a hot cougar would be fantastic!! that’s what all my friends from ^^^^__ AgelessMate.Com__^^^^ told me again and again!! guess it’s time to check the chemistry out!!LOL
leuk pandje :)
groetjes uit drenthe
gonna stop by some day soon. Its just 10 mins away(if you’re sober)
@7, alish:
WTF?
wow….
TPB has to prove the fact that they’re not making a profit, and constantly have to prove that no materials are ever hosted on their servers.
Now mininova is not only making a profit, but they’ve got an office and employes. Now they’re even seeding stuff themselves!!
It’s a wierd world.
” With all the drama that’s going on in Sweden at the moment, it’s good to see that it’s still business as usual at Mininova. At least for now. ”
Very nice to see …..
Cheers
@11
I had the same thought. Not saying it is a bad thing, just odd.
@13
Just look at Youtube.com. Their place of business is mainly the USA, where copyright infringement is more easily dealt with in court. They actually host the infringing material as well, yet nobody goes after them.
[quote]One of the most significant changes for the Mininova staff is the new office, located in the city center of Utrecht.[/quote]
That’s outside the city center, it’s not an “A location”. (Oudegracht or Maliebaan would be A locations)
Not that they couldn’t afford it, they must be making millions from ad revenues
nice woman
it is really nice to hear this.
hope they continue the good work by operating a special office for exclusive pirated work
SWEET OFFICE!
i’ll take the third on the greens
browsing/searching still sucks.
w00t. now it’s time to upgrade your shit style. site still looks like windows 95.
@22: They can’t skin the site in Vista look. It will result in too much unneeded bandwidth and costs, because the torrents matter, not the skin.
A nice pic of the pretty office. :)
@11: FYI, TPB has an office too :)
Just to make this clear: the 5 ‘employees’ are the founders of the site (we’ve been working on it since Jan 2005). And regarding seeding: that’s done by VIPeers, Mininova just links to VIPeers on the upload page.
Thanks for the info Niek, although I kind of assumed it’d be something like that, despite the good ad revenue, its still pretty difficult to have a lot of staff…
And congrats to mininova, really nice to see another nice and strong .torrent site like The Pirate Bay.
@22:
I like the look of Windows 95, it looks clean and usable, unlike what Vista looks like, a big splodgy mess of unnecessary prettiness.
Bless the Dutch..
It wouldn’t surprise me if TiAMO,
Anakata and Bokep choose to relocate here soon.
I for one will have a nice cold beer waiting for them.
Peace.
I dont see whatcherall so exited about. Crappy ol’office in a shady/seedy part of town. w00t!!1!one.
#26 Nah, Swedish laws are currently more in favor of filesharing than laws in NL.
#27
It just means that mininova has got their shit together, unlike most torrent sites.
I think i will come by one day, its not so far away from were i live :)
Just had my first and last visit to Mininova, page changed to some smiley central or some crap…
@11 Mininova is not even hosting the torrents, they link to outside torrents. And they’re not seeding either, VIPeers is.
@14 YouTube spends at least 300k a year on legal fees, Google just has a lot of money to pay for lawyers, they make a lot more than that. Just look at their approx. traffic on compete.com and imagine the lowest video CPM rate applied to a portion of that traffic
Even white birds support mininova.
I think i’m in love ^^
Mininova would be #1 if they ran tracker.. cause once the shit hits the fan there going to be gone with a flicker.
@29
‘ It just means that mininova has got their shit together, unlike most torrent sites.
‘
…. Coz they are more of a metasearch tracking torrents tracked by TPB, Demonoid or Sumotorrent.And hence a bit more ” secured ” legally !
Nice and Clean interface though.
Yes I am also a mininova fan :)
When will we get https, like piratebay? Now that’s important..
The mininova guys are great guys and it is good to see that are moving forward with building the company.
Steven Finch
bué baril o escritório
I am a mininova fan, but I wish people would stop trying to mimic downloads, you have to look really careful to ensure its a real axxo file
Nice office, you had to wait until those two ducks for the picture, right? nice touch ;)
Oliver
http://tinymailto.com/oliversl
Yup, a ten minutes walk from here =D
Hope TPB is gonna join them here soon
haha ik fiets er morgen ff langs lol
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