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2023: The year that pixeldrain became a business
🕑 Added 2023-12-30 11:42:36 +0000 UTCHi people. The end of the year is nigh and I wanted to do another little recap like I did last year.
I was just looking through the old post and, oh my, a lot has changed. This year has been crazy.
First of all, I quit my job this year. Pixeldrain used to be my little pet project that I worked on in the evenings, but in the summer of this year the subscriptions really started to pick up steam and I could tell that it wouldn't be long until I could support myself with it. So in September I told my boss 'See ya later, alligator', and filed for divorce. Business has been good since then. I can work my own hours, which I honestly might be abusing a bit to play a little too much Runescape, but I'm still making great progress growing the platform.
With that out of the way, here are the numbers you might have been waiting for, maybe:
The number of Patreon supporters increased from 1341 to 6723 (101% increase)
Monthly earnings through Patreon increased from €3041 to €20614 (577% increase)
I also integrated with Mollie in September (and through Mollie, PayPal). This has led to €16376 in Prepaid deposits
274 970 terabytes of bandwidth was used (275 Petabytes! 406% increase)
529 939 694 files were viewed through the website (423% increase)
689 796 592 files were downloaded (477% increase)
Bandwidth capacity was upgraded from 50 Gbps to 400 Gbps (That's 50 gigabytes per second! It takes 20 seconds to download a terabyte at this speed)
Storage capacity was increased from 724 TB to... 5272 TB (628% increase)
I have made 199 commits to the pixeldrain server repository, added 11856 lines of code and removed 10990 lines of code
You might also be interested in some global statistics. Since I started tracking the stats pixeldrain has served...
1 455 396 890 file views
1 554 120 843 downloads
and used 371.7 PB of bandwidth
Wow. Those are some large numbers. Needless to say I spent a lot of time configuring servers this year. Speaking of servers, when reading those monetary units you might assume that I am rolling in the dough right now, but those servers are EXPENSIVE! Still, about 80% of all that money goes to hosting.
Last year I said that I wanted to release a cloud drive feature... That's still the case, but I didn't manage to release it this year. The feature works right now, but there is some preparation work that I need to do before launch so I can be sure that it will work smoothly for everyone.
Have a great new year's eve. Take care of your appendages. See you in the next one!
Greetings,
Wim.
Comments
SHREDDER1876
Yep I have had no more problems with downloads from Pixeldrain :-)
Fornax
This was an issue with Avast, I reported it to them and they said it's fixed now.
SHREDDER1876
I gather you didn't get my private message, here is what I sent you. This has started happening over the last few day's. I'm getting a virus message on Avast each time I try to download something on pixeldrain.com. I would send you a picture of the message on Discord, but I can't work out if your on there or not. here is a outline of the message. Threat secured We've safely aborted connection on pixeldrain.com because it was infected with HTML:Script-inf [Susp] Scan your computer for other issues, too? Threat name HTML:Script=inf [Susp] Threat Type Miscellaneous - This is malicious software that could harm your data, computer, or network. This is coming up on my Web Shield.
Fornax
The servers are very overloaded currently. This causes instability and interrupted downloads. I have ordered more capacity but it will take a few days before it's ready.
SHREDDER1876
I have sent you a private message about a different kind of problem I am finding while trying to download stuff from pixeldrain since the start of 2024. This is Not speed related.
Jonathan Loving
When I first saw this post I thought you quit your job and left your wife. This is an interesting way of saying you quit your day job. LOL
nidar
That’s good to hear. I do remember that a few months ago i thought in the shower “ how can I support pixel drain more?” because I want it to stay. I see now, that by the power of thought-manifestation it all worked out. No need to thank me though, I only told the universe what to do, you did the hard work. 👏
Fornax
Not really. Just keeping the site running is becoming a challenge of its own. There are very few hosting providers that have the horsepower that pixeldrain needs to run. Eventually I'll get around to adding some new stuff.
Fornax
I do!
francesca
You might have filed for divorce with your boss but I got on one knee for pixeldrain, my beloved. Wishing you all a really good 2024 <3
Tune
Huzzah!
Skeeve
Best wish in New Year
Ahmad Agbaria
Good luck. The best system ti sharing files in the world..
Kurt
Still one of the best out there. If only you had a sort function for files on a folder. Then we’d be cooking.
Joseph
Happy new year.
KickaWazoo
provide good service and winnnnnnnnn, how it should be
x524
Have you planned some new features?
勇面 Yoongmian
Wish you all guys all pink in the health in 2024, Hope we can setup short time shared link in the future
Amit Banerjee
Keep it young.. I really love it and Pixeldrain is on of the most important part of my work..
Nahant
That’s the kind of good news we like to hear
