For those of you interested, I'll be updating the bandwidth stats in post 17 to include info for the rest of this month. I've also added some historical data as a contrast.

@Aaron: the archive definitely isn't going anywhere regardless of the presence of a torrent. The constant traffic is a bigger threat, but hopefully my posting here that I just renewed the domain yesterday will help to alleviate some of the concern.

While I appreciate the advantages of a torrent and it has been suggested before, it's not something I, personally, have plans to develop in the near or mid future.

This said, I certainly don't want to discourage anyone else from doing so. I'll also make sure to include the rest of our developers, so that if someone on the team feels differently than I do, they can pitch in here as well.

If anyone here (not part of the archive team) does decide to develop this torrent, I'm going to ask you to respect the following restrictions though:
First, Contact us before you start downloading the site. We are still experiencing high traffic, and as the month draws to a close, somebody hitting every file on the site without first notifying us is probably going to get a ban, and since I did post this first, probably won't get it lifted when you complain. Additionally, if you need to download new content when we make updates, download only the files you actually need, not the whole site.
Second, respect developers. There's a reason torrents are considered a legal gray area, and if you want to develop something using the archive as the principle, then you need to do it properly.
Finally, don't represent your torrent as being endorsed by or part of the archive. It's your work and your responsibility, not ours.

@Post 28 Check your PMs I would like to Help with it

Could i get files to get it started? I could use File Convoy

I just tried to go to the Archive page for Dan Z, and both Firefox and Google basically told me the site was unsafe, that it would put malicious software on my computer. I don't know if this is just a side-effect of your restrictions or some nasty individual reported it, but as this is the most relevant thread to the topic I thought I'd leave the message here. When I personally go to the Agarchive site, I read through the lists and then decide whether I wanna download and install things, but if I can't even do that and my browser is throwing fits thinking the site is unsafe... Well, you can probably see why I'm concerned.

@32, once I get back into using Syncthing I'll contact you about mirroringthe site.

I have updated this month's stats (post 17) with final bandwidth information. In short, the issue continues, and thus we will have to continue taking action accordingly.

I would, however, like to thank the many, many people who used the site responsibly this month. You vastly outnumber the few troublemakers causing problems, and the difficulty I'm having in hunting down who exactly deserves the ban hammer is a testament to the number of you doing exactly what we hope you will when you come to the archive: download and play games.

Finally, I'd like to ask everyone to please remember that when you listen to recordings, to download rather than stream them. If you're not sure of the difference, if your browser starts playing the audio immediately, it's streaming. Go back, right-click (applications key or shift f10) on the link to the recording, and choose the option labeled save target (or link) as instead. Mp3 audio accounted for over half of our bandwidth this month, and one file alone for over 500gb (yes, it's a long recording).
This is incredibly important, and while we like hosting recordings and believe they're very positive for the community, if they cause us to be unable to continue serving games, then we're going to have to rationalize whether it's worthwhile for us to keep that portion of the site up.