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Pirate Bay Caught Up In a Hosting Whac-A-Mole - Ernesto - Feb 17, 2015
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Two weeks ago The Pirate Bay returned online and millions of users have been finding their way back to the popular torrent site since.While the site is currently up and running, Pirate Bay’s comeback hasn’t been without trouble. On Friday the site went offline for roughly 12 hours after a hosting provider pulled the plug.
TF reached out to Pirate Bay admin Winston, who informed us that “getting stable hosting” is one of the main challenges the site faces at the moment.
TPB is currently using CloudFlare’s CDN services which means that the hosting location is well hidden. However, Cloudflare does forward takedown notices to hosting providers and most are not very eager to have TPB as a customer.
The site continues to look for a safe alternative but that is proving to be a troublesome process. When we discussed the topic with the site’s admin TPB went offline again, causing yet more downtime.
“Another ISP killed it,” Winston told us yesterday. “So yeah. It will take a long time until it’s stable.”
While the hosting issue has priority, there’s also a spam problem TPB has to deal with. Despite deploying “FakeSkan” robots there are still many scammy comments and malicious torrents on the site.
The Pirate Bay initially launched without moderators due to security concerns. This resulted in a mutiny among TPB staff, some of whom wanted to start their own version of the site.
While the locked-out staffers managed to revive a copy of the Suprbay forum a few days ago, launching a TPB alternative will prove to be much harder. Winston now says that TPB is open to welcoming some of the old staffers back in the near future.
“After hosting issues are resolved I’ll talk to some old mods,” Winston tells us. “If they want to continue then it’s okay, but I won’t look for new mods. Someone from the old team will have to be in charge of that.”
After the initial disappointment of being locked out, several admins are indeed showing willingness to return to their former home.
“The conditions do not need to change from our side,” long time TPB moderator Agricola told TF. “All we want to do is keep the site clean.”
In addition to dealing with the pollution problem, TPB registrations should also open up again in the future. At the moment new users are unable to sign-up and publish content.
“There are just some security issues that have to be resolved first,” Winston says. “Plus, the hosting has to be stable.”
Speaking of hosting, a few hours before this article was published The Pirate Bay was forced to leave another ISP. That brings the total to four thus far, and the end is not yet in sight.
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RE: Pirate Bay Caught Up In a Hosting Whac-A-Mole - Spud17 - Feb 17, 2015
Yes, it's true.
Crew and ship will soon be reunited to set sail again.
Stay tuned for news as and when we have it.
RE: Pirate Bay Caught Up In a Hosting Whac-A-Mole - frostyon420 - Feb 17, 2015
(Feb 17, 2015, 15:48 pm)Spud17 Wrote: Yes, it's true.
Crew and ship will soon be reunited to set sail again.
Stay tuned for news as and when we have it.
great news guys
if things get back to the norm ill be back. im looking forward to coming back to a staffed tpb
RE: Pirate Bay Caught Up In a Hosting Whac-A-Mole - Spud17 - Feb 17, 2015
In the meantime, if anyone has any issues with their TPB accounts or torrents, please do not post in Account Issues until things are fixed at both ends.
When it's ok to start posting in that forum again, we'll remove the grey announcement boxes from the top of the page. Until then, please post about forum account queries only.
The Report Torrents/comments forum btw, will be reopened when we're ready to sail.
RE: Pirate Bay Caught Up In a Hosting Whac-A-Mole - Spud17 - Feb 18, 2015
Just a quick update...
some of you may have noticed Crew are back on TPB now and doing a bit of cleaning up.
So far, the support from members/pirates and the rest of the community has been amazing, so a huge thank you to all those who kept the faith and stayed strong.
Other Crew are coming aboard as I type this and it's going to take some time before we're running at full sail, but as soon as we're ready to deal with account issues/torrents again, we'll open the Account Issues forum to all queries, we'll remove the grey announcement box from the account issues forum index page, and we'll reopen the Report Torrents/Comments forum so members can report fakes etc, as well as making a few minor changes elsewhere on the forum.
Thanks once again for your support, understanding, and patience.
RE: Pirate Bay Caught Up In a Hosting Whac-A-Mole - AliBatman - Feb 18, 2015
I am so happy right now
RE: Pirate Bay Caught Up In a Hosting Whac-A-Mole - eika256 - Feb 18, 2015
(Feb 17, 2015, 15:48 pm)Spud17 Wrote: Yes, it's true.
Crew and ship will soon be reunited to set sail again.
Stay tuned for news as and when we have it.
Great news. Will this bring back the releaser threads too? Right now, they're gone.
RE: Pirate Bay Caught Up In a Hosting Whac-A-Mole - ScorpioPirate - Feb 18, 2015
Thanks for the update.... then I hope I can upload again..... I have try plenty times, but comming with fail .... so lets see what happening
RE: Pirate Bay Caught Up In a Hosting Whac-A-Mole - Spud17 - Feb 18, 2015
The forum will be upgraded shortly, and restored to full +TPB status.
That includes the reopening of the Report Torrents/Comments forum, and the Promote Your Torrents forum, as well as some TPB threads restored and a couple of others ammended. The grey announcements boxes will be removed and everything will be back to how it was before the December raid.
All these changes will take place at the same time, so please bear with us while we get things done.
RE: Pirate Bay Caught Up In a Hosting Whac-A-Mole - fiveofseven - Feb 18, 2015
Sweet, great to read this is happening finally.
Perhaps I will begin to upload again
What is an appropriate image hosting site while bayimg is down?