Hi all,
As many of you noticed, Mininova experienced a massive blackout this week. The problems begun when the hard disk of our load-balancer (running LVS) started having issues (random freezes and crashes). When attempting to fix these issues, our hosting company found some other problems and were unable to start the server up again. Combined with the fact that we’re now in the midst of two successive holidays in The Netherlands, this all resulted in an extensive downtime of Mininova.
We’re very sorry for the inconvenience you might have experienced. We are still investigating the problems, and will do our utmost to prevent similar issues in the future.
Thank you for your continued support!
– The Mininova staff
Update: news coverage by TorrentFreak.
Hi all,
Here’s a small blog post to keep you all up to date on our latest developments:
Video streaming
The coming weeks Mininova together with The Tribler team will be starting a closed beta for Tribler’s new video streaming software. The software is developed by the The Tribler team at the Technical University of Delft/Netherlands.
The first beta release of this software will be invitation-only for a small group of Mininova members. Because of various reasons it will only work with Featured torrents. Some statistics will be gathered by the application, but no personal information will be included in these reports. In addition, the application is open source so everybody can exactly see what is going on.
We are looking for people who would like to be in the first testing group who test the software, report suggestions and bugs you find. Please reply in this topic if you want to participate in this closed beta.
Upcoming changes
For people who are wondering what else we have been working on and what the future might hold. We are…
- …still improving our funny-videos website Snotr
- …working on some changes of the front-page to allow for better promotion of the featured torrents
- …making Mininova faster by optimizing things like he source code, database and hardware
- …thinking about improving the design of Mininova. This is actually a point were everyone can help by suggesting your improvements in this new sub-forum: Feature requests & Design suggestions
Thanks for your attention, and as always: stay tuned for updates!
The Mininova team wishes everyone a happy new year.
At the start of this new year we would like to bring something to everyones attention. Steal This Film 2 has finally been released. This part has some very interesting views on file sharing and is much more from a neutral point of view. On the website you can check the League of Noble Peers’s Next Project and even help them by donating.
The movie can be downloaded in a couple of different formats:
StealThisFilmII Xvid
StealThisFilmII 720p
StealThisFilmII DVD
StealThisFilmII iPod
We at Mininova are also seeding the torrents with our new servers which are also used for Mininova Content Distribution. The following image clearly shows at which point we started seeding (around 15:00) and how popular this movie is so far.
As you might have noticed the blog and the forum have been down the last couple of days. This was because we reinstalled the whole server. We have now installed a PHP blog, WordPress, because the buggy/slow Ruby on Rails blog kept locking up the whole server.
We have also installed MySQL 5 which still doesn’t work with the forum we use. We have mailed Invision Power Services to ask about this because their website has been saying “news on MySQL 5.x support coming soon.” for months now.
We will keep you updated on the forum…