After nearly 48 hours of downtime and a replaced Power Distribution Unit, The Pirate Bay is back in business. The last two days have been one of the longest downtime episodes since the site was raided in 2006, and its effects have been felt elsewhere on the Internet.

On Monday The Pirate Bay went offline. By itself the downtime isn’t really news as it happens every other week, but this time it took longer than expected to return.

The Pirate Bay was quick to inform TorrentFreak that they were dealing with a broken Power Distribution Unit (PDU) which had to be replaced on-site.

The part in question arrived at the datacenter yesterday and has been installed today.

Considering the nature of the site The Pirate Bay prefers that these issues are handled by people they know rather than a random employee of the hosting facility. That the site was unreachable for a while is unfortunate, but necessary.

The prolonged downtime didn’t go unnoticed by the rest of the Internet.

This week, hundreds and thousands of people were wondering what had happened to their favorite torrent site and as a result “The Pirate Bay” quickly became one of the hot searches on Google.

Hot Bay

Other popular torrent sites also felt the effects of the downtime, and all enjoyed a healthy bump in traffic. This is not really surprising since The Pirate Bay caters to millions of people every day, people who had to satisfy their BitTorrent habit elsewhere.

Traffic Up

And then there were the rumors.

The downtime coincided with a raid at its former hosting company PRQ, but The Pirate Bay stated they they haven’t been using PRQ’s services for quite some time. The downtime was a mere coincidence, they told us, although it was later admitted that the site may have used a PRQ relay.

The target of the PRQ raid has still not been confirmed but currently our sources believe it may be a smaller Swedish tracker.

Whether that’s true or not, The Pirate Bay is back up and serving magnets as usual.