Why Demonoid is down...

[ShadowBlazer]

Apparently, the Demonoid servers are experiencing hard drive damages due to constant power outages in their region.

Demonoid is one of the biggest torrent sites around. Now fairly peacefully hosted to the west of Russia in Ukraine, the site has previously received unwanted attention from both music and movie companies. So when the site goes offline a lot of people start to think of the worst, especially if there is little or no warning.

During the next few days, maybe hours, Demonoid may go down due to some serious-sounding technical issues. They have already caused some damage to the site so the operators want to limit further damage.

“We are experiencing power outages that have caused some ram and hard drive issues. We might have to shut down everything to fix and prevent further damage,” they say in a statement.

The downtime could be extended, “…days maybe, until we can change the power circuit,” they add.

Several Demonoid users already report connection issues, but the site is still accessible to most people at the time of writing. The blackout won’t mean much to millions of Russian and Ukrainian BitTorrent users though, since they are already blocked from the site.

Over the years Demonoid has had its fair share of downtime. In June 2007 Demonoid was pressured to leave their host in the Netherlands, mainly because of legal threats from the Dutch anti-piracy outfit, BREIN. The site then relocated to Canada, but after threats from the CRIA, it decided to shut down there as well.

In 2008 the site eventually reappeared in full glory after being offline for six months. This time the downtime shouldn’t last that long. Any Demonoid users stuck for ideas on alternatives if the site goes down, can check here. If you’re looking for high speed downloads you could also consider to try Usenet instead (our Usenet guide).

Source:

http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-bittorrent-tracker-could-go-dark-for-days-090901/

Since last week, Demonoid had been inaccessible to its many members and most don't know the cause.

It seems the virtue of patience of the members will be tried for weeks until their servers are up again. Hopefully, they didn't lose any data.

[ShadowBlazer]

There's an update to the Demonoid page today.

Originally Posted by Demonoid

September 26

Status

The site will return as soon as possible, but there was a problem that caused data loss and the person who can help us get the data back is not able to help at this moment. The site will return when we can get his help

A loss of a some months worth of activity including registered users and torrent submissions is to be expected because the backup we are hoping to get back is not up to date, so please be prepared for it

Source: Demonoid

[Nimrod EX]

Oh shit...I registered about 2 months ago Gonna have to find an invitation again somehow... I don't think I still have the "Registration Complete" email.

It sounds like they're in some deep shit over there... it'll probably take another month at best to get back up again

[Mr. X]

No worries man. i'll give ya a invite.

[ShadowBlazer]

Originally Posted by Demonoid

There are some rumors about the site shutting down for good and we starting a new tracker next year. the rumors are of course, lies. There are no plans of shutting down or creating another site.

And there is NO official twitter/facebook/any other web community page for Demonoid. There are a few around that were created by fans and have no link to the site or staff.
The parts of the site code that got deleted are being rewritten and should be ready soon. We are also working to try and minimise the data loss as much as possible.

Thanks for your patience.

Another site update, seems like they're trying very hard to minimize the data loss.

[Dominus Ragnaros]

At this point I'm pretty sure the Demonoid users here can,and probably do,read the front page for themselves. It's not really news anymore.