[Datahound]

As some may have noticed, the site hardware/software is not well. It went down again most of last weekend.

xavier242 has a plan to get moved to a new box, OS, and site software. The domain will remain the same. Details to be announced when they are decided.

He has asked me to limit my peak seeding to reduce server harddrive activity (they're not SSDs).

So queue up your downloads even if no one is seeding them and be patient. I'll activate 7500 torrents twice a night (15000 per day) to see if anyone is trying to download. Any that connect, I'll keep running until they are done, but the rest I'll stop (and rinse, repeat). Hopefully this allows the site to stay up until we transition. With this strategy, it could take 6 days for your download to begin. It is what it is...

There's one TTD member with an awesome script for TTD that can do seeding on demand. I may ask if others could help run the script. I know roughly how it works and with perhaps 5 others running it, it would not put much load on the server IMO. Set up is probably not trivial and you'll need the torrents downloaded already and not renamed (it's like 40TB of data). I'll try to get some more details.

When the cutover date is announced, the new site should be up within a few hours. xavier242 is trying to get the old server hardware as he was not able to make a TTD site backup remotely (all the data). Once he has the drives, the plan is to make the old site available on the new server, probably in a static read-only mode, and accessible either via the new search, or directly (possibly with the same links). He may need some help coding this.

The plan is to keep the TTD high standards and recreate the documents and look of the old site. If he uses a phpBB based site, it could happen. The new box will of course have SSDs (hopefully high endurance database type).

The reddit thread he sent me:
https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/co...nd_method_for/

He and I are studying this one as a possible replacement:
https://github.com/torrentpier/torrentpier

And xavier242 tells me there's going to be an ongoing fundraiser. U2Lynne has kept the site alive for far too long. It's time we chip in. Details to be announced.

He also said the posting wizard will not be recreated. I hate it. I think most others do too. I strongly believe it's so confusing, it keeps many from posting.

Comments invited.
DH