The Pirate Bay has been downed once and surely, users do not ever want to see the wildly popular torrent site bite the dust once more. The recent downtime of the file sharing site, which is still fresh from its re-emergence back on Feb. 1, has many terrified that The Pirate Bay may come clattering down altogether before long. 

But virtual pirates can finally breathe now that the site is up and running again after 12 hours of downtime. The administrators clarified that no takedown happened, only a hosting issue, which has been successfully fixed. 

Just recently, users who visited the site got the CloudFlare "Error 522" message, which means that the servers of the torrent tank were unresponsive. There were concerns about The Pirate Bay's use of the global CDN and DNS provider but the administrators clarified that CloudFare are only used to handle massive load upon the servers and will be taken away immediately. 

The domain name of the site remained intact during the outage and the nameservers were in position as well. In addition, the site's onion address is working fine so even during the outage, it could be accessed via the Tor network and the Pirate Browser. 

It was also initially speculated that some hardware or software connected to the site is acting up although this inference seemed to be unlikely. This had many wondering what was going on with the site again. Expectedly, this had its users prime themselves for what could be The Pirate Bay's ultimate downfall. 

In a Swedish police raid back in December, The Pirate Bay was knocked offline during the operation along with other Sweden-based torrent hubs such as Tankafetast, PirateHub and streaming portal Tankefetast Play. The Pirate Bay seems to be the only one that rematerialized and it has done so after two months.