Re:Ask YC: You are starting another pirate bay?
by halo on Tuesday November 20, 2007 @09:21PM
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OiNK's tracker was rewritten in its entirety by one of the admins.
I seriously doubt they spent $30k/month on server fees (citation?), but it wouldn't surprise me if they spent a lot - do consider they needed to servers with an ISP that wouldn't shut them down, the sheer amount of requests (300,000+ users, each of their torrents announcing every 60 min, plus startup and shutdown).
I seriously doubt they spent $30k/month on server fees (citation?), but it wouldn't surprise me if they spent a lot - do consider they needed to servers with an ISP that wouldn't shut them down, the sheer amount of requests (300,000+ users, each of their torrents announcing every 60 min, plus startup and shutdown).