Happy 5th Birthday Catbox (Patreon)

Helloooo~.

First and foremost, wow I'm over 2 weeks late for the post. I'm actually pretty ashamed.

More importantly, the earth has completed another revolution around the sun, and Catbox grows another year older. This year was pretty sleepy. I know in the previous birthday post I abandoned the redesign, but that wasn't true. I've actually been working on it here and there. Unfortunately progress on it has been slow since I've lost interest in the general design of it (the hard parts are done really, it's just menial copying and formatting that's getting to me). 

As some of you may have noticed, the server costs have increased. This is an unfortunate side affect of gaining popularity/traction as a file host. You just keep growing and growing - it's not like you can just dump stuff. Here are some current statistics as of April

• Bandwidth used: 198.76 TiB (approx. 217 TB)
• Storage used: 10.5 TB on Catbox, 4 TB on Lain (idle file offload)
• Total files uploaded:  3,670,000+ 
• Unique Uploaders: 215,000+
• Registered Users: 8,000+
• Top 50,000 websites according to alexa.com

I recently got a full time job as well, which has really been cutting into my freetime (read: catbox time). Working from 8 to 5 kills a nocturnal person like me, so I pretty much come home after work and pass out. 

I promise I have stuff in the works right now. I've started to work on the redesign again, in addition to some back end fixes. I'm also planning on deploying new hardware to handle the increase in files/processing power. Hopefully I can get this done within a month or two (no promises on that :[ ).

Thanks again to everyone who has stuck with me on this long journey. I know a lot of you have come from other pomf.se-style file hosts, and we've all seen a lot of them come and go. Here's to another year of Catbox, the first (believe it or not) and the last large pomf "clone".