What is "topsite"

n. (context Internet slang English) A high-speed FTP server used to store and distribute warez.

Topsite is a term used by the warez scene to refer to underground, highly secretive, high-speed FTP servers used by release groups and couriers for distribution, storage and archiving of warez releases. Topsites have very high-bandwidth Internet connections, commonly supporting transfer speeds of hundreds to thousands of megabits per second; enough to transfer a full Blu-ray in seconds. Topsites also have very high storage capacity; a total of many terabytes is typical.

The term Topsite has several meanings:

• The term Topsite (also commonly referred to as a toplist or topsite list) may refer to a website which lists other sites in a particular subject category. Each listed site has a button which allows visitors to vote for that site, and the topsite orders its sites by the number of votes each receives.
• Topsite in the warez subculture denotes a site originating or hosting numerous recent releases, and having access to it restricted to members of one or few select groups.
• Topsite Templating System is the informal name of a templating system written in the Python programming language.