Fornax96

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Ask HN: My website has been blocked in all of Italy. Is there anything I can do?
4 points by Fornax96 3y ago|4 comments
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by Fornax96 3y ago
It's definitely a very technical challenge. I have learned a lot since I made the switch to 100 GbE. My website regularly needs to handle more than 100k connections per server, the bottlenecks become very apparent at that scale.
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by Fornax96 3y ago
This is exactly what I needed for pixeldrain. I have been struggling with TCP bottlenecks for months. I can't wait for 6.8 to be released.
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by Fornax96 3y ago
Once again WINE is the stable Linux ABI
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by Fornax96 3y ago
I don't see the game in my library anymore, so I guess I ended up doing that.
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by Fornax96 3y ago
This happens all the time. I used to be able to play Rocket League natively on my Linux PC. Then Epic bought it and simply pressed delete on the Linux port.
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eBay suspended my account 25 minutes after registration(pixeldrain.com)
5 points by Fornax96 3y ago|8 comments
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by Fornax96 3y ago
I registered an eBay account to purchase some hardware for my business. Before I even had the time to enter payment details I got a message saying my account had been suspended. Support will not reinstate my account under any circumstances,
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by Fornax96 3y ago
That's ridiculous bandwidth pricing. you can get unmetered gigabit at Hetzner for €20 per month. Need 2 Gb? Order a second server.
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by Fornax96 4y ago
I'm working on one-time payments for pixeldrain. I don't want to lock people into a subscription either but that's just how Patreon works. I do like the financial security of monthly subscriptions though. Means you need to wo
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by Fornax96 4y ago
Definitely! I really despise ads. I'm really happy this business model is working out. Even if only one in 200 people join the Patreon it's plenty to be profitable.
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by Fornax96 4y ago
I bet ads were extremely profitable when Zippyshare started. The market has shifted from banner ads to video ads. As for me: I didn't know what the alternatives were when I started. The ad revenue was enough to bootstrap the growth cyc
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by Fornax96 4y ago
I run https://pixeldrain.com . I have been seeing my ad revenue dry up over the last few years as well. Even though the site only grew more popular the ad revenue stayed low. At the start of this year I decided to try running th
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by Fornax96 4y ago
I run https://pixeldrain.com . At the start of this year I completely removed all ads from my site. I'm done with checking ad network after ad network only to find out that they all pay the same: pennies. Pixeldrain now runs
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by Fornax96 4y ago
I run pixeldrain.com which uses a lot of bandwidth. The website uses about 6 PB per month and I'm paying €3000 for that, so that's about €0.50 per TB
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by Fornax96 4y ago
Welcome to Rapture
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by Fornax96 5y ago
I think taxes are the biggest hurdle for microtransactions. You are legally required to report taxes in _every_ country where you have customers. This means that the customer will need to fill in address information for each website they wa
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by Fornax96 5y ago
The page took 40 seconds to load for me in the Netherlands
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Bandwidth costs 10 times as much as storage, so I'm more concerned about that :-) If it becomes a problem I'll do something about it. The storage limit is a recent thing anyway. The site operated 6 years without any limit on stora
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by Fornax96 5y ago
They moved repos again. The Sia daemon is now here: https://github.com/SiaFoundation/siad And Skynet was forked into a different repo: https://gitlab.com/SkynetLabs/skyd
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Hey Michael, good to hear from you here! I still have a Sia daemon running but it's not doing much. When the site still ran on Sia I had a lot of issues with the scalability of the Sia daemon. While it's still getting better, it&#
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Views are unique per IP address (/48 subnet for IPv6) so continuously refreshing the page wouldn't work. I had problems like this in the past, but rate limiting mode seems to have solved it. I have had little abuse complaints in t
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Do you mean the buttons for sharing files? Those are disabled until you have uploaded something. After uploading they become active and the contrast becomes much higher.
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Scaling has been tricky. Finding a database system which can handle the load was the hardest part. A single Postgres instance buckled quite early on. Later I tried Cockroachdb but it also was not up for the task. Now I'm running Scylla
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by Fornax96 5y ago
My hosting provider just decided to turn my server off for no apparent reason. I have no idea why yet, waiting on an answer from support. The timing for this is the absolute worst possible... Needless to say I'm going to be looking for
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by Fornax96 5y ago
It's not really meant as cloud storage, but more as a catchnet to prevent abuse. If you're not paying for pixeldrain your files will always expire 30 days after the last time they're viewed. So even if someone uploads 500 GB
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Oh yea it's probably not a good idea to threaten users with "more shady ads" on the home page.. I'll remove that. Pixeldrain focuses more on distibuting files to large audiences than one-to-one file transfer. That's
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Pixeldrain is a project which I started working on during the lunch breaks at school around 6 years ago. Originally it was intended as a screenshotting tool for Linux. Eventually I realized I had more fun working on the backend than the des
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Show HN: Pixeldrain – File sharing service optimized for speed and ease of use(pixeldrain.com)
56 points by Fornax96 5y ago|21 comments
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by Fornax96 5y ago
Hey, I was trying out Seaweed yesterday. I ran into an issue with HTTPS, it seems to be not very well supported at the moment. I managed to get it running mostly secure, but replication didn't work because the volumes were calling each

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