In an update on the situation, the sole tech admin of the site tells us that it will take a while before the site returns.

The DDoS resulted in resulting in a series of problems that may take a while to address. However, he does not intend to throw the towel for now.

“I don’t plan on shutting down, but if Im going to fix it I have to do it properly. That means upgrading a lot of our 7 year old hardware and maybe bringing up the beta only,” the admin told TorrentFreak.

Quite a few people have offered to help out, but the admin doesn’t want to expose sensitive user data to complete strangers.

“I have gotten a few offers to help but that means giving way too many privileges over the user data to a stranger…Can’t have that,” he tells us.

Users will have to be patient, but many of the older members have learned that by now. Over the years the site has had its fair share of downtime, sometimes disappearing for months on end.

“You know how it goes with demonoid. It might take a while but it will come back,” the admin concludes.

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Every time The Pirate Bay suffers a few minutes for downtime, thousands of people start to worry that something awful has happened to their beloved site. Luckily, this is usually not the case.

When the site’s not responding someone probably tripped over a cable, they’re working on software upgrades, replacing hardware or facing another technical difficulty.

And indeed, the current downtime also has a technical nature.

The Pirate Bay team told TorrentFreak that they’re working on a problem that arose after a software upgrade this morning.

Everything should be back to normal soon.

Update: The site’s back after a few hours of downtime.

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Last time this happened was little over a week ago after a memory upgrade, when the server failed to autostart.

When The Pirate Bay suffers a few minutes for downtime, thousands of people start to worry that something awful has happened to their beloved site.

However, 99.9% of the time there’s nothing to worry about, as the downtime is caused by a misconfiguration, maintenance or a planned nuclear attack.

TorrentFreak reached out to the Pirate Bay team to get an ETA for the return and we’ll update this post when we know more.

As always the best solution is to take a deep breath, and wait a few hours. The Pirate Bay will be back eventually.

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Update: The downtime is caused by a failing switch and a power problem, should be fixed within 24 hours.

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