nsane.forums Posted April 28, 2010 Share Posted April 28, 2010 Demonoid is one of the biggest torrent sites around. Now safely hosted to the west of Russia in Ukraine, the site has previously received unwanted attention from several anti-piracy outfits. So, when the site goes offline a lot of people start to think of the worst, especially if there is little or no warning.Yesterday, Demonoid once again disappeared leaving its users behind with lots of questions and in a mild state of panic. As is often the case, Demonoid’s admins have remained silent and rumors of a hostile intervention have quickly grown. Thus far, however, there is no reason to assume that the downtime is caused by ‘legal’ reasons. It has to be assumed that the site is facing hardware or network problems.On the positive side, we can report that Demonoid’s trackers appear to be working just fine. This is no guarantee that the site itself will make a quick return though. Last September the site vanished into thin air and although the tracker returned early November, it took until Christmas before the site was fully operational again. Last year’s downtime was not unique either. Since 2007 the site has been offline for more than 13 months in total, due to all kinds of problems including issues with the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA. Hardware issues and trouble finding a reliable hosting outfit were some of the other explanations that were given in the past.In a rare interview with Demonoid’s current hosting provider a few months ago we found out that DDoS-attacks and legal issues are unlikely to take the site offline, so we can only guess what the real reason for the ccurrent outage is. The wait has started, once again.Demonoid’s servers (in good shape)Article from: TorrentFreak. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bashar Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 servers are in a good shape :Dhope it wont be so long like the last time downtime there are plenty of alternative sites tho :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamHaters Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 Damn a total of 13months in 3 years.Not good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KotaXor Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 No wonder I was unable to access, thought it was on my side..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 29, 2010 Administrator Share Posted April 29, 2010 My bet is on demonoid to be back in one month if there are no legal problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KotaXor Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Well....still down...let's see how long it take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 30, 2010 Administrator Share Posted April 30, 2010 Demonoid is back. Was down due to DoS attacks on them as per the homepage. More info:Ongoing denial of service attack There is a denial of service attack in progress that is causing extreme slowness.We are currently working on solving the issue.Thanks for your understandingNo prize for guessing who would be behind those DDoS attacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KotaXor Posted May 1, 2010 Share Posted May 1, 2010 Well....its up...but one hell of slow loading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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