Andre Yoskowitz
26 Dec 2007 17:40
Despite all its legal hassles, The Pirate Bay had a strong year, seeing its number of torrents quadruple and peers using the tracker double.
In December 2006, TPB had 570,000 torrents and 4,300,000 peers using its tracker. As of last week, TPB now has 914,000 torrents and 8,400,000 peers.
To keep up with the demand, TPB has continually added hardware to their server park and more recently migrated from Hypercube to the open source Opentracker software which they claim is "more stable, uses less resources and supports UDP tracking."
Brokep, an admin at TPB had this to say: “Since the last performance tweaking and router-tweaking we’ve removed all bottlenecks.” He added that he expects the tracker to hit 10 million peers before the next big holiday.
Source:
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