Taken offline: Myrient will shut down 390TB archive on March 31, 2026

Myrient will be taken offline on March 31, 2026, and operators say anyone who wants copies of the site's roughly 390TB of data must download them before the end of March.

Taken offline and the timeline

The archive is scheduled to close on March 31, 2026, leaving users with a clear deadline to secure content from what the site estimates is at least 390TB of material. The operator warned that the window to retrieve files runs only through the end of March, and the site's Discord server and Telegram channel will remain open after the shutdown.

Rising costs, hardware shortages and abusive download managers

Operators said insufficient funding and rising expenses forced the shutdown; they reported paying more than $6, 000 out of pocket each month to cover hosting costs. The site cited climbing RAM, SSD, and HDD prices driven by AI infrastructure build-out as a key factor, and noted it cannot afford necessary upgrades to storage and caching infrastructure.

The operator also pointed to abusive users who monetized site content by bypassing donation messages and adding paywalls, behavior the creator said violated the archive's ban on commercial, for-profit use. Larger industry moves were noted as well: one data-center provider is raising prices up to 37% starting April 1, a change the archive said adds pressure to hosting budgets.