Technical updates

Hi all!

We received quite some complaints from users lately that the site was very slow. In order to fix this we just placed an extra search server and upgraded an existing webserver (apparently, one of its hard drives died, so read/write operations were very slow).

As a result, everything should run smoother than ever now! In the case that you spot some bugs or performance issues, please let us know.

Cya!

Update Oct 2: We added 2G RAM to one of the search servers, this should improve the overall site performance.

211 Responses to “Technical updates”


  1. 1 Frank

    Hi
    Excellent site, visit you atleast once a day. I have noticed lately a difficulty in establishing connection with your site, but I hope this is just a temporary measure as I would hate to loose you. Keep up the good work

    Kind regards
    Frank

  2. 2 icarus

    Thanks - and for the good work in general :)

  3. 3 icyx

    Yeah, the site was very slow, but glad you guys fixed it! What would the world be without mininova^^

  4. 4 Jaryth

    Yes, ineed thanks for the update. But maby… an update to controle the Spam problem maby? Posibly somthing like Demonoid, and the “bad torrent” link?

  5. 5 Xclsuiv

    Great job in general

  6. 6 bainey

    yey at last i can browse Mininova at Broadband speed(That’s ADSL for you american’s)not dial up(modem)and rightfuly so when your download speed is 8Mb is better now that I can find things straight away instead of having to wait nearly 2 mins to browse at peak times that being cos Mininova gets over 1million hits per hour possibly the biggest public torrent tracker on the web.anyways keep up the good work guys Mininova rules the net.

    P.s don’t ever let the copywrite agencies close youd down the net would’nt ever be the same without mininova

  7. 7 FLT

    @bainey: incase you haven’t noticed, mininova isn’t a public tracker. It’s a dumpsite. (big difference)

  8. 8 abacus

    Caution! The ERRORSAFE virus is in the website. It appears with at least two styles of download prompts and any response starts it.

  9. 9 MOD

    yea great job… but whats this virus this above guy is talking bout?

  10. 10 erwan

    it ’s so many virus

  11. 11 Jo

    Thanks!

  12. 12 Quakkus

    Great, it works outstanding, thanks a million

  13. 13 Brawk

    Site info comes up and then disappears after 5 seconds! Under construction?

  14. 14 Anonymous

    good work thanks

  15. 15 marko

    great site great job done bye all

  16. 16 silvers

    ses tous simplement ses parfait :)

  17. 17 rambe81

    Mininova blockes

  18. 18 DJ ELITE

    15SEP06 | 7:44pm (GMT) - Is the site down?

  19. 19 Kyle MacDonald

    It would be nice to be able to browse the torrents by sorting by seeds..or date added… it drives me crazy. Main reason I end up going to other sites!

  20. 20 icarus

    Kyle MacDonald: It is possible - just click the tab/headline

  21. 21 MdePomar

    Mininova rules, period

  22. 22 REGISTRATION HAS ITS BENEFITS

    @Kyle MacDonald

    Leave if you must you are probably a leecher like 99% of people on here.

    If you actually bother to REGISTER and the LOOK AT THE OPTIONS you will find you are able to do this as default everytime you visit and are logged on Mininova. It takes something to get something you know!

  23. 23 jessica

    why am i being banned?? someone please help me ive sent emails to staff at mininova and NO ONE has replied.

  24. 24 Mp3 Free 4 Me .com

    Good work! much better now!

    Now it loads within a few seconds instead of a few minutes :) Keep it up!

  25. 25 Catana

    Yeah this site is the best :)

  26. 26 V

    GREAT work. Yeah, it was a little slow, but like everyone else has said, WE ARE SO HAPPY WE HAVE OUR MININOVA. Hooahh! Thanks for the great work, fellas. You rock.

  27. 27 doublelong

    Great job guys. This just confirms that mininova is the greatest torrent site available.

  28. 28 gemini

    The forum seems to be down

  29. 29 bill

    Tried to register but kept getting “Invalid email”. kwhat is a person suppose to do?

  30. 30 jokoon

    thanks !

  31. 31 shalmanezer

    Thanks for the update but your F**** #!@&~” ads and spam suck to high heaven. Get rid of them. They are just a pain in the butt and serve no purpose.

  32. 32 Matt

    Why can’t i download anything?

  33. 33 JustMe26

    I find that the site is still running slow righ now I search for something and it takes for ever to show up and none of my cookies are blocked so should have no troubles so whats going on how come when clicking on the site seems to take its time to finish loading and searching?

  34. 34 TechZ

    The DB timeout errors are just too frequent.

  35. 35 bainey

    If you bothered to read all the comments made by others you would know that mininova is!!! a public tracker(Not a Dumpsite!!) so why not stick to what you know best like P2p I.e Bearshare and Limewire and leave torrent sites to us pro’s P.s all if you have Got AVG anti virus on your PC you shouldnt get any virus of Mininova anyway mininova is usally clean

  36. 36 crispa

    hello everybody .i first talk to you last time about the nbc tv complaining about loading tv series ect.today im back talking about sony dvd recorer home dvd cinema .model rdrgx7.i have buy my machine 2 years ago and make during that time about 3hundred recording around.now the machine is dead.the recorder priced at 1.300 dollards sugest retail price.when you or i pay arround that much for a machine i would expect a better longivity for it.so sony is not any more the qualite i have always expect from sony product.the reparation of the machine at sony cost 850.00 dollards.whoo baby it is almost the price of the machine.so the point is by no name product i mean not the big brand.at 125.00 or150.00 toshiba for exemple because the longivity of laser inside i think almost al dvd home cinema recorder is about the same.o by the way bleuray machine is sold at almost the same price as my defective recorder so they doit again iam shure that this new format is going to do like betta cassette did fall in the abyss. so thats.it.buy seriously by concient we all deserve respect as customer of there product so long crispa

  37. 37 Nick

    Amateurs go back to stupid file sharing ! Mininova is a great site and one of the quickest sites to grab a torrent. Also the virus issue, i always say “users ask for viruses, they dont come unsolicited”.

  38. 38 Joe

    Naughty history test, that all of you should be able to pass ;)
    http://www.naughtyamericahistory.com

  39. 39 abacus

    Just a caution, don’t shoot the messenger! The well documented ErrorSafe virus is in the website. I have to remove some protection to get into Mininova. The super safe Norton Security picks up ErrorSafe, even so, the installer got through.

    I’m glad to have Mininova. I’d like to have some improvements but a caution about the presence of a virus doesn’t justify being described as an “amateur” who invites viruses thank you, Nick. Greetings to civilized seeders round the world who share UK manners and tastes!

  40. 40 Spykie

    What’s up with the comment system?
    It often says there 3 comments with a torrent but then I can only see 2. (or it says 6 and there are 5) , Always one less.
    Some examples:
    http://www.mininova.org/com/425084
    http://www.mininova.org/com/425043

    Site is running great again by the way, good speed!

  41. 41 Yuu

    Exellent job on the upgrade :)
    shalmanezer Sep 17th, 2006 at 1:34 pm

    Thanks for the update but your F**** #!@&~” ads and spam suck to high heaven. Get rid of them. They are just a pain in the butt and serve no purpose.

    I ain’t flaming but trying to clarify that the ads are there to pay for their hosting otherwise they will ask for donation everytime [i am sure you allowed to donate but not a requirement :P] or they may shutdown the site so i suggest either get adblock for FireFox to block it out [though try to click once to help em out :D] or try a private site only to realise you can’t be without mininova hehe.

    again not trying to start a flame here and thanks for a great site.

    Yuu
    South Africa [fastest speed is upto 4mb [introduced as trial 01 September 06] with 3GB [includes uploading [384kbps fastest] & downloading] cap LOL :( ]
    So don’t ever think your 1337 8mb or 2GBps link aint good enough :P

  42. 42 wartie

    Great, the upgrade seemed to correct the issues. The site is much faster that before.

  43. 43 kenotz

    kudos and more power! long live mininova….

  44. 44 Anonymous

    mininova is virus free
    great job

  45. 45 Jill

    Virus found in Avast! antivirus Pro v4.7 with ken gen skins!!!!! Don’t down load this

  46. 46 arseniy

    There seems to be a problem with downloading NARUTO 51-100 AND 101-151 … http://bt.cat5connection.com:5555/announce says something like ” WARNING : Problem connecting to tracker (http://bt.cat5connection.com:5555/announce): Timeout while contacting server.
    ” and ” INFO : announce: 1.67619054992e-005″

  47. 47 arseniy

    got my email wrong on the form so here is another 1

  48. 48 nunya

    this is a good site for lots of free stuff.remember its free so stop being such babys and get on with it.and share you tight ass so we can all enjoy the benfits.i have never had a viris come down off this site yet and think its a dam good that these people here at Mininova do what they do

  49. 49 lolnoob

    There seems to be a problem with downloading NARUTO 51-100 AND 101-151 … http://bt.cat5connection.com:5555/announce says something like ” WARNING : Problem connecting to tracker (http://bt.cat5connection.com:5555/announce): Timeout while contacting server.
    ” and ” INFO : announce: 1.67619054992e-005″

    That has nothing to do with Mininova

    LOLNOOB

  50. 50 Alitha

    Good morning I have a big problem with your service it says my acct name does not exist. Someone from your office needs to e-mail real soon or i will dispute credit card charge and contact web officials about this site. I still retain my e-mail conformation as my proof. Thank You

  51. 51 Sal

    Great to see you are upgrading hardware - do you want any support = donations via paypal or so?

  52. 52 Anonymous

    ta

  53. 53 MassaD

    Great SITE!

  54. 54 mn19522

    This is a great site! However, even though I registered I still cannot add any comments. For example the torrent ABBA The Last Video has a word document in it that redirects you to a site that is a (Hollywood Interactive, Inc.) a known spam site according to The Archive Domain Name Spammer at http://www.chsw.com/domainspammer/index-2001-09-01.html

  55. 55 b00mb00m

    You are doing a Great Job!

    Thanks

  56. 56 Rafael

    Mininova the best torrent site….No more!!!

  57. 57 Dude

    I wish you would remove the pron, i cant recommend this site to people with that there.

  58. 58 wool

    great site…..however, having trouble closing download sometimes….stops at 99%….never completes….KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!

  59. 59 ggg

    lately even torrents with 1000 peers show on my azureus with 0 peers, any idea?

    tx

  60. 60 alan oliver

    ive asked for help buy still no reply 1st am unable to ad comments wen signed in an every download i only get 0.3kbs or so with 600 seeds takin 3 weeks to download 349mb my modem is 2.2mbpsso any idea thxs triggo awaiting a reply soon

  61. 61 newfieboy

    what happened to all the howard stern shows,use to be alot of shows,now they are very limited,why????

  62. 62 Mini

    Spykie you are right. The comment system has bugs.It is always one less.
    I have seen that MN when shows ‘1 comment(s)’, actually there are none.

  63. 63 ben

    Thanks you keep the good work

  64. 64 sheZ

    WHATS WRONG WITH THE SITE? I BEEN TRYING FOR A WEEK NOW AND I GET NO SEARCH RESULTS. I NEED PRISON BREAK EPISODE 6!!LOL.

  65. 65 nihaopaul

    Experiancing a few problems with the TVshow page, errors are coming up at the bottom, rss feed is updating but not the front page, clicked on http://www.mininova.org/tor/436845 but get ‘Error in SQL query: Incorrect key file for table ‘tor’; try to repair it’

    hope that helps, i’m lost with out mininova!

  66. 66 titan

    First of all,I would like to thank the person who put THE ROCKEFELLER’S on here.Second to the person who put BENJAMIN GRAHAM and DAVID DODD books.THANK-YOU.How about books written about WARREN BUFFETT,and any BENJAMIN GRAHAM BOOKS.Once again THANK-YOU.

  67. 67 steffan@steffan5.wanadoo.co.uk

    since i subscibed to this share 360 site i have not even been able to down load 1 item i joined on the understanding that i would pay 99 pence you have charged me 36 pounds for something i cannot get therefore iwould like you to contact me about this matter.also iwould like you to refund my money ,and tell me why 99p turns into 36 pounds steffan.

  68. 68 titan

    Me again,I would also like to thank the person or person’s who put NAPOLEON HILL on here.DOES ANYONE HAVE MORE ON NAPOLEON HILL,BOOKS OR AUDIO.THANKS AGAIN.KNOWLEDGE,POWER,and MONEY=SUCCESS.TITAN

  69. 69 Jon Pritchard

    Thank God you made those changes, your site was unusable before the changes. I am happy to report that it’s almost back up to the speed it used to be.

    Good work guys.

  70. 70 moni

    I keep getting eceptional error every 15 mins or so causing me to keep restarting bit torrent

  71. 71 moni

    4.22.1 2006-09-29 05:39:14] INFO : announce: 2.79365099232e-006
    [4.22.1 2006-09-29 05:39:44] WARNING : Problem connecting to tracker (http://tracker.torrentbox.com:2710/announce): Timeout while contacting server.

  72. 72 Calvin

    I haven’t been able to connect for three days now

  73. 73 pedroG

    Wow - much faster now!

    My only issue now is that some of your banner ads play sounds/music which can’t be turned off without closing/moving from your site. This is very annoying when I’m trying to listen to my own music…

    Cheers

  74. 74 Carlos D'Urbano

    ‘Hello there! First of all I really appreciate what you do. I am a 59 unemployed profesional with not very much hope to find a job. I make my living making software and other jobs with my computer. I cannot purchase the software I need exept for what you offer. Recently I downloaded Office 2007 but I am unable to install it. I have the S number but I cannot get to the dialog box to plce it. I will very much appreciate it if someone could nelp me. Carlos’

  75. 75 Cathlin

    Hi, why i got this message saying “ERROR refected by traker, not authorized )you are already connected to this torrent too many times)

    MY computer is slow thats the reason i have to connect too often on the same fike, what does it mean, I won’t be able to download the file? PLEASE HELP!

    thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

  76. 76 joe

    e.m.p im back buddy whats up with the french

  77. 77 joe

    just got back from thighland emp ,dont bunk up wiv my m8 gaZ GLITTER HES A REAL CHILD TO TALK TO HE CANT SHUT UP ABOUT SWEETS AND PUPPIES

  78. 78 Jazza

    Yeah mininova all the way.

    PLEASE SEED

  79. 79 Joe

    The site is very fucking slow today. It is very, very, very fustrating to say the least. I love Mininova the most, but I think I’ll go elsewhere if the prob don’t get fixed soon!

  80. 80 mariela

    hii!! well i have a question i dont know if i need something special to make run the videos cuz they are like error when i want to watch them, so do i need a special program? please answer me!! i really want to know! thanks

  81. 81 Fossil

    Well done with the upgrade, very much improved, but still seeing the occasional SQL errors or taking a while to respond to a search..

    Wondering if some of you “good old boys” from the USA might do the world of outlaws sprintcar coverage on Fox and post them Pleasssssssssssssse

    Mariela - search for “Codec pack” on the web. these are required for view most of the files downloaded from here.

    Cheers mate..or should i say cricky

  82. 82 NoName

    I still experience issues while loading the page. Sometimes it takes 15 to 20sec. before i can see anything and if the site finally pops up i’ll have to wait another 10 to 20 sec. to load the anoying ads. ;-(

  83. 83 Anonymous

    hi all

  84. 84 FIrebrandSam

    Dear “Mininova Technical”,

    First, Thanks for all the good job your doing. It’s great. I’m in France, and I can watch my favorite american TV shows, thanks to you !!!
    However, it seems that you have some trouble with your search engine. For exemple, on your homepage “added today”, on TV Shows, there is the second episode of the 3rd season of Desperate Housewives… (usually, it’s written like this : Desperate Housewives S03E02 HDTV…). And when I use the search engine to find it, it’s not in the list… Same for the new TV show : Six Degrees… only the first episode appear when I’m using your search engine…
    I think that the search engine stopped when you placed the extra search server. Before, when something was on the homepage “added today” it was also appearing on the search result when we were using the search engine… I hope I was clear… Thanks again for everything and take care !
    —Sam

  85. 85 RDuke

    Sorry guys, the upgrade didn’t work. The site is slllooowwwweerr than ever.

  86. 86 splifi

    hi i all ways use mininova but for the last mounth or so i just cant get on it useing firefox and internet explora i can if i use a dial up aol account but thats to slow any idea i ve switched firewalls off ect

  87. 87 Shelley

    My problem:

    I am trying to download the Season 11, Episode 1 of 7th Heaven - I get this error:
    N/A on everything expect number of sources, it says no sources. I know someone who did successfully download the episode - so why can’t I? What is wrong?

    What other info do you need to help me out here?

    Thanks!

  88. 88 Fossil

    Yep.. search engines broken, CSI-M 5×03 is in todays list but doesnt come up in a search. Episode 2 for same not in for [VTV]. I thought i was going spare but it is “broken”
    See also comments by FIrebrandSam

  89. 89 Fossil

    Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘mininova-search2′ (4) in /var/www/www.mininova.org/search.php on line 20
    Cannot connect to MySQL server… Please wait a few seconds and reload this page (F5).

  90. 90 nimara

    i love this site. it allows me to keep me up to date with all my favorite shows even though i live on the other side of the earth. :)
    I’ve also noticed problems with the search. it seems like it doesn’t pick up any new torrents from the 26th.

  91. 91 walberio

    Oi gente!

    Baixei o jogo “Faces Of War” usando o mininova, e agora preciso saber como instalar, ja que nao tem nenhuma arquivo com terminação .exe (executavel) nos arquivos baixados. quem poder me ajude por favor. Abraços…ate

  92. 92 aLIBUBA

    The search engine is definitely broken, and has been for quite a while. Hopefully you can find a way to fix it!

    Brilliant site. Keep up the great work!

  93. 93 primetimedoctor

    work’s fine now,keep up the great………………out

  94. 94 Concerned but not worried

    The RSS feed for the TV shows seems to be down…

    http://www.mininova.org/rss.xml?cat=8&num=100

  95. 95 ricardo

    yay

  96. 96 Andrew

    WHen I search it won’t come up with results after 9/25/06.
    Any ideas?

  97. 97 mntorrents

    Great site! Two comments:

    1. I wish it was possible to look at a day’s worth of torrents further back than yesterday. Sometimes I miss a day and would love to see what was posted without having to try to guess and search or go to the categories.

    2. Old problem that’s re-surfaced. When I click on the little green icon next to a torrent, it takes me to the torrent’s page instead of just d/l the torrent. This used to be an intermittant problem for me, but hasn’t occurred in a long time before today. If you’re already aware of the problem, or the problem is just on my end, I apologize!

    Thanks, keep up the great work!

  98. 98 Apó

    szia

  99. 99 Angeline

    HI,

    I really like your site… BUT… I tried downloading something and got a Trojan, A VIRUS … Back DoorCEP.svr.
    By downloading “ADAWARE Pro SE 106 zip.(watch a switch)
    I am new to this site, and I would not want others to be infected.
    :]

  100. 100 416

    HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    its been weeks that i cant download anything from the site , when i wanna save the file i want , it says “invalid handle” i tryed to deleted the whole utorrent program and install it again but it keeps my old files and settings , what can i do to fix this?? help

  101. 101 Fossil

    Thanks for fixing the search thingy..well done

  102. 102 kashif

    great site! never missed opening this site a single day.

  103. 103 Paige

    Thank you, THANK YOU! It was much needed ^^

  104. 104 -

    Great site :)!

  105. 105 molson

    theatorrentz.org the best torrent site

  106. 106 molson

    http://www.theatorrentz.org

    :) theatorrents is buck up and running.

  107. 107 molson

    http://www.theatorrentz.org
    theatorrents.org is back

  108. 108 Eveny Rodrigues

    POxa eu entrei nesse site porque me recomendaram.Mas devo confessar que não estou entendendo nada…
    tudo ta inglês…
    Mas to deixando a minha markinha aki.
    kiss

  109. 109 joe

    Hi there,
    what a great site, i,ve downloaded quite a few albums and software since i was introduced to the site. some worked some aint, but I put thay down to being a thick old brummie.
    anyway,I have a large collection of all types of music and would love to put somethink back rather than taking all the time.How can I do this.
    Regards Joe

  110. 110 madness of mac

    yea , i visit ur site at least once a day , keep up the good work , no complaints at all !!!

  111. 111 BillyBee

    Mininova has always remained my fave for torrent sites, not only for movies and occasional software “auditions”, but especially because it is just about the only site I can find classical music. The sorting of new files into their various genres makes it sooo easy to zero in on what I want.

    All sites go through periods of technical difficulties, so I believe in leaving the problems to the tech staff and just be patient….. after all, the site is made available $free…. so what “right” do we have to complain?

    Just wanted to let the staff at Mininova know that all their work is **greatly** appreciated. You guys (and gals) are the best on the web!! Thanks for everything :)
    Regards,
    -=BillyBee=-

  112. 112 seth

    i cant seem to start downloading movies at all, i have waited for about two hours once, can you help me???

  113. 113 Dude

    Can i make a small suggestion, when you display search results - i think you should display them by date added (newest files at the top). It might reduce the number of hits to the database and should speed up the site a little.

    Or maybe you could make a client side way to sort the search results, probably harder to implement though.

  114. 114 Twinkle Toes

    Awsome website
    I make sure i visit several times a day!

    Cha’mone

  115. 115 Fossil

    got the following error when trying to load full listing for today - Error in SQL query: Incorrect key file for table ‘tor’; try to repair it

  116. 116 G man

    Very good! You guys have a great site, I visit it at least once a day!
    Thank you!

  117. 117 pparizek

    got the following error when trying to load full listing for today - Error in SQL query: Incorrect key file for table ‘tor’; try to repair it
    what can I do with this error

  118. 118 bradnetworks

    Just started a blog called BitTorrent Tv its post about tv torrents that have been released and any issues with the release and general comments abou the epsiodes. Check it out feel free to leave a comment

    http://www.btuser.blogspot.com

    cheers

    bradnetworks

  119. 119 jp

    excelente sitio web para bajar no me quejo de nada..