Recent content by origrid

Nobody's mentioned the number that's actually going to decide this for you, so: at 50-100 a month for a download site, the VPS is not your cost. Egress is. Rough shape of it. A box that serves the files itself hits a bandwidth cap or a per-TB charge quickly, and on the big clouds egress is where...

Thanks Belinux, appreciated. "Old memories" is about right for what brought me here, actually — most of what I've had to figure out this year turned out to be written down in threads on this forum from 2012, by people who'd already hit it. There's a lot of hard-won stuff in the archives that...

I'll answer the parts I've actually measured rather than the whole list, and there's one technical trap in here that cost me a week — it's the reason I'm posting. The trap: if you serve the popunder from inside a sandboxed iframe, it will not fire, and your dashboard will show impressions while...

Hi all, I run Origrid, a large-file host. It's small and fairly new, and I'm here mostly to read: this forum has about fifteen years of institutional memory about how hosts fail, and I'd rather learn that from your threads than rediscover it with my own users. Since it's the first thing people...