World’s most popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay suffers downtime again

The world’s most popular torrent website, The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hard to reach for users, as its main .org domain has been offline for almost a day now, reported TorrentFreak. It appears that TPB outage is likely caused due to technical issues and therefore, in all probability it may be restored soon. However, on the other hand, TPB’s proxy sites and its Tor domain are working perfectly fine.
Users trying to access the torrent portal are currently greeted with a Cloudflare 522 error message, with the CDN provider referring to a “bad gateway.” While TPB has been facing similar server issues since the past few months, it usually returns to normalcy after several hours.





TPB fans took to Twitter to report issues with the torrent site after it was affected by server issues.
One user tweeted: “The Pirate Bay is down”.
While another posted: “The Pirate Bay is down so is my mood”.
And one added: “The Pirate Bay is down. I’m stressed.”
For those torrent fans looking to desperately access the notorious torrent site, can do so via its .onion address on the Tor network, which for instance, can be accessed using the popular Tor Browser. The site’s Tor traffic is routed through a separate server and is working just fine.
Currently, TPB is not the only popular torrent site that is experiencing problems due to server issues. The popular ExtraTorrent copy ExtraTorrent.ag has also been suffering downtime for more than a week, with no official word from its operators and when it would be online.

 

The Pirate Bay down, here are the top 3 alternatives

In what appears to be the first outage of 2018, ThePirateBay.org has been down for nearly 8 hours. The Pirate Bay seems to have suffered a worldwide outage and the visitors to TPB is greeted with a Cloudflare 522 error code or the CloudFlare offline page since past 8 hours.
While it is still unclear why The Pirate Bay is down, the site has been showing up error codes to several users from past few days. As said above, ThePirateBay website currently shows a Cloudflare error message to some users while some users have reported that it is showing a cached webpage.

All the other TPB pages excluding Tor versions are unavailable worldwide. According to The TPB status website, all versions except the TPB Tor version are offline and unreachable.
The most probable reason for TPB outage is hosting related issue but insofar the TPB admin have not stated anything. The torrent tracking website Torrent Freak has no mention of TPB outage. TPB servers are known to face server issues time and again. If you are a Tor user.
However, those torrent downloaders who don’t have Tor have to wait until the TPB server issues are resolved. They can use the following alternatives in the meantime.

The Pirate Bay down, here are the top 3 alternatives

1. YTS aka YIFY.ag : YTS.ag is not the original YTS or YIFY website but a good clone. After the demise of original YIFY/YTS this website took its place and since it has gained lots of popularity with its unique style website look.
2.  RARBG : RARBG gained quick popularity and provides torrent files and magnet links to facilitate p2p file sharing. The site has been blocked by UK, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Portugal and several other countries.
3. isoHunt : isoHunt.to, a de facto replacement of the original isoHunt, is the most advanced BitTorrent and best P2P torrent search engine. While it is the same old isoHunt from the outside, it is very different from the inside. It has nothing in common with the isoHunt Inc. that made the original website. isoHunt is an online torrent files index and repository, where visitors can browse, search, download or upload torrents of various digital content of mostly entertainment nature.