A little explanation on my new stretch goals for Patreon:

Reaching $200 would offset both the current monthly cost of running Catbox ($100~), and allow me to purchase new server hardware, which I can then colocate at an Internap datacenter for $100/month, effectively matching my current costs, while giving me greater flexibility and power. I could roll Project Lain back a couple months, or maybe even fold it altogether.

God forbid I ever reach $400, but if we do, we’d be eclipsing even Mixtape. I really have no idea what I’d do at that point. I unfortunately don’t have any new rewards for higher donation amounts yet, because I’m still trying to feel out my options. Bigger uploads? Custom sub-domains? Folders? idk man.

I also just want to thank my current patrons for their continued support, and for anyone considering becoming a patron, do it! Just a dollar from every active registered user would catapult us to new heights!

Yeah so I fucked up the awstats thing and i’m really not interested in fixing it (it’s so fucking old) so I’m just gonna give overall site statistics from now on until i find a better log analyzer software (taking recommendations).

*.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 113,674
• Unique Visitors: 66,530
• Pages Served: 322,201
• Hits: 5,180,665
• Bandwidth Usage: 19,734 GB

statistics will be a little late/non-existant for July, because of the server change.

catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 26,862
• Unique Visitors: 11,746
• Pages Served: 125,364
• Hits: 341,133
• Bandwidth Usage: 12.7 GB

files.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 53,897
• Unique Visitors: 40,751
• Pages Served: 171,987
• Hits: 3,833,662
• Bandwidth Usage: 9,719.2 GB

qt.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 525
• Unique Visitors: 459
• Pages Served: 869
• Hits: 2,266
• Bandwidth Usage: 27.8 MB

nofun.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 562
• Unique Visitors: 464
• Pages Served: 637
• Hits:2,132
• Bandwidth Usage: 37.6 MB

catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 28,144
• Unique Visitors: 13,217
• Pages Served: 144,104
• Hits: 399,269
• Bandwidth Usage: 7.4 GB

files.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 66,004
• Unique Visitors: 50,438
• Pages Served: 155,342
• Hits: 6,881,907
• Bandwidth Usage: 10,907.5 GB

qt.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 685
• Unique Visitors: 515
• Pages Served: 1,229
• Hits: 2,802
• Bandwidth Usage: 33.6 MB

nofun.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 511
• Unique Visitors: 417
• Pages Served: 626
• Hits: 2,083
• Bandwidth Usage: 37.2 MB

edit: nevermind ads suck. 10% of front page views had ads. which means 90% of you blocked it. impressive tho

Oh noooo I’ve put ads on catbox!!!!!I’ll try to keep this short in order to stay to the point: I’ve put an ad on the front page of Catbox. It’s only for a week, and its to gauge revenue, because as it stands, Patreon isn’t covering server bills (which went up to $64/month $56/month). Currently, if you’re signed in to Catbox you won’t see ads, and that’s how I’d like to keep it (if i even keep these). However IF you’d like to support Catbox without donating directly, consider using Catbox without adblock enabled on it. sure I get like 0.003 cents per view, but money is money.

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catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 24,127
• Unique Visitors: 10,192
• Pages Served: 127,496
• Hits: 432,503
• Bandwidth Usage: 17.3 GB

files.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 72,745
• Unique Visitors: 54,577
• Pages Served: 125,518
• Hits: 2,901,337
• Bandwidth Usage: 11,424.5 GB

qt.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 572
• Unique Visitors: 321
• Pages Served: 1,244
• Hits: 2,547
• Bandwidth Usage: 29.9 MB

nofun.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 233
• Unique Visitors: 178
• Pages Served: 365
• Hits: 1,210
• Bandwidth Usage: 24.4 MB

Another year of fun, lolis, and some other stuff that I can’t remember!

Thanks to Pettankon for the art

And with our second birthday comes something new: Catbox on Patreon! That’s right. You can now support the site through Patreon. You’ll even get little things out of it.

I took all your poll results and considered all the options. You guys had a lot of insightful/neat ideas for how to keep the site going. Here’s the percentage breakdown of the poll

• 12% - Ad Banners through Adsesne
• 21% - One time donations
• 9% - Nothing/Other
• 16% - Reoccuring donations
• 18% - Special Ads self-brokered
• 24% - Account Upgrades

You might wonder why I didn’t go with the most popular option. Its mainly because the time it would take to create the upgrades, the pricing model (monthly, yearly, onetime??), and a bunch of other things would have been simply too complex for right now. I’m happy with the site’s features as it is. Maybe some time in the future I’ll change the patreon rewards to give actual Catbox rewards (html file hosting, larger uploads), but for now, it’s going to stay separate from the actual function of the site. I don’t think I’d be able to handle larger file size uploads (space is already tight as it is), and HTML file hosting would require a lot of coding magic, and I’ve been a little busy lately.

Anyway, here’s to a great year, and hopefully many more!

catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 24,971
• Unique Visitors: 10,872
• Pages Served: 129,130
• Hits: 321,075
• Bandwidth Usage: 14.2 GB

files.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 51,046
• Unique Visitors: 41,136
• Pages Served: 76,761
• Hits: 3,026,235
• Bandwidth Usage: 9,921.5 GB

qt.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 612
• Unique Visitors: 345
• Pages Served: 1,217
• Hits: 2,777
• Bandwidth Usage: 33.6 MB

nofun.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 195
• Unique Visitors: 131
• Pages Served: 454
• Hits: 1,386
• Bandwidth Usage: 31.9 MB

catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 22,994
• Unique Visitors: 9,521
• Pages Served: 114,700
• Hits: 264,269
• Bandwidth Usage: 6.3 GB

files.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 35,510
• Unique Visitors: 26,994
• Pages Served: 74,353
• Hits: 2,512,054
• Bandwidth Usage: 5,390.3 GB

qt.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 659
• Unique Visitors: 396
• Pages Served: 1,291
• Hits: 2,723
• Bandwidth Usage: 32.4 MB

nofun.catbox.moe

• Total Visitors: 209
• Unique Visitors: 147
• Pages Served: 349
• Hits: 1,298
• Bandwidth Usage: 27.3 MB

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