Mongo56 just died.

Written by Ernesto on December 01, 2005 

BitTorrent’s biggest tracker just went offline. The fun was over, there was no money left and the DDos attacks didn’t help either.

English_Man states:

As of December 1st 2005 Mongo56.org will no-longer exist. I am sorry about this, but after over a month of battling flood attacks and the like it’s time to kill the tracker.

The flood play a large part in my decision, but they are by far not the only reason.The number of donations are not covering the server costs, (€35 last month), and I really can’t afford to keep supporting the site, there are also many other reasons NONE of which have anything to do with legal threats etc.

During our time in the BitTorrent community, we have really made a differences and a huge impression. We have worked directly with admin and developers from all aspects of the community, for instance we became the first XBNBT based tracker to run with over 100,000 peers, we broke the XBTT record with over 763,000 peers.

But it’s time to say goodbye and thank you to everyone who ever graced us with your .torrents. I have had a wonderful time running the site and have loved every minute of it, but now it’s just not fun anymore and it should be.

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11 Responses

1 Dec 03, 2005 at 16:26 by anonymous

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

2 Dec 04, 2005 at 16:44 by Mark WOng

why,it cant be true!mongo tracker has to stay!

3 Dec 04, 2005 at 16:47 by Visual

I know we all understand but we are devistated none the less.

4 Dec 05, 2005 at 15:14 by DYKE

Thank you very much for your great tracker, hopefully many other will now start open trackers to try and emulate your success.

Thanks once again

5 Dec 06, 2005 at 00:42 by Marcus Olsson

Oh man, to bad. I had just discovered the Mongo56. It’s really a shame it has to end like this. I hope that someone else will start where you left. Thanks for everything, and good luck in the future!

//Marcus
-Sweden

6 Dec 08, 2005 at 06:46 by LasTunas

An end of an era. Thanks for your hard work and dedication. Best of luck to you, and I hope you find the fun again.

LasTunas
-Canada

7 Dec 08, 2005 at 10:23 by bullshido

Thank you for your kindness in puttin up the tracker. You will be missed, Mongo56.

8 Feb 24, 2006 at 17:05 by Erebuz

ho man its a shame and the end of a eon on torrent universe but what can we do (specially if i have a download in yur track wit the 99.8% complete, just 4 mb more, but…)just cry and hope that i can finis my donload…
good luck man and have fun

Erebuz
Mexico

9 Jul 29, 2006 at 03:46 by Mark

sigh..okay..thx mongo tracker.

10 Oct 07, 2006 at 14:34 by tincho

I downloaded a password proteced RAR via eMule (PS2 Shining Force Neo USA) and it was tracked by mongo56.org. Where can I find the password now that the site is gone?

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