Is Demonoid slowly returning to business as usual?Many of you, myself included, have been following the whole Demonoid, a popular BitTorrent tracker site, affair very closely. Well, I'm pleased to report that the site seems to be slowly reappearing as we speak. I reported before that the CRIA was allegedly to blame for the recent shutdown, that somehow it had presumably pressured Demonoid's ISP to stop hosting the site. It now seems that this wasn't the case after all, that it was far more mundane server concerns to blame. The reason for this is that the trackers run on the same IP address, thereby meaning that issues and events other than a successful ISP intimidation campaign by the CRIAA are the most likely reason for the site's downtime. I got an e-mail a while back that seemed to clarify what had happened, but since I was unable to verify the source I had to take it at face value. It may now be legit after all. It reads: No, Demonoid is NOT being shut down by the CRIA, or anyone else.That is pure FOD.It suffered major server failures, and is currently being rebuilt.It seems he may just be right after all. Either way, the lack of a definitive status report by Deimos, the founder and head admin of Demonoid, has made for an exasperating week for members of the BitTorrent community who have come to rely heavily on the world's second largest BitTorrent tracker site. The good news though is that with hardware issues now being the likely culprit for the site's downtime, it may just be a matter of days before Demonoid's brought back up to snuff. Stay tuned.
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But I digress, before I put everyone to sleep; can't WAIT for Demonoid to return in full!
Well if he COULD have just said something before now , WHY didn't he say something? You have all these apparently false reports of them being shut down by the CRIA and he might have stopped all that nonsense! That was stupid in itself....letting people go on and on and not say anything.
I don't think you can blame a "collective" imagination, when reports of the sites demise by the CRIA are being spread across the net.
What really gets me is it all could have been PREVENTED....so it begs the question...WHY WASN'T IT?
lets say a server life is 3 years the first year you install the main server then on year 2 you install level 1 redundancy by year 2.9 you install level 3 redundancy so by the time year 3 comes around server 1 fails but backup 2 has 2 years left and server 3 has 3 years left.
also if the servers are in an earthquake region you may want to have them mounted on springs or something to prevent damage to minor earthquakes.
get hard drives that can shut down if they detect movement like some laptops and ipods do
We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and We need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. If you reside in Canada, that is the reason you are being redirected to this message. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.
If that is what it is coming to, then say goodbye to the net as we know it!
Newspost - Sep/30/2007
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We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this.
Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.