Its down now, right?
About 4chans current stats and infrastructure
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#12How on earth does Cloudfare survive charging $200 for nearly 2PB of traffic? Is the profiling/retargeting business really that lucrative? Do big accounts like that have some kind of revshare deal or mandatory link skimming?
Where are you getting $200 from?
That's what they charge afaik - $200/mo flat rate.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where are you getting $200 from?
That's what they charge afaik - $200/mo flat rate. https://www.cloudflare.com/business
I would guess they are paying considerably more than that to host 4chan. Note there's also a $3k+ enterprise plan.
From the article: We pay for CloudFlare too. While they offer free and $20 "Pro" plans for most of their customers, large businesses and enterprise customers are a different ballgame. It isn't cheap—far from it.
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#144chan's comment system is awful. I still don't really understand how it works. It seems like they could improve the design and pipe in new comments as they arrive, thus negating all the extra server load caused by browser extensions refreshing every second.
Of course, I have no experience dealing with ~1B page views/month.
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#15Not really related, but this is the first time I've seen 4chan stats posted properly (although they do measure with quantcast) so I feel like saying this. These are our stats for minecraftforum.net (last 30 days): > Visits: 33,793,899 > Unique Visitors: 11,094,806 A forum for an indie game is half the size of 4chan; the biggest western forum. Pretty neat. We're also bigger than 4chan in the UK. I'm not sure if this m…
Minecraft videos are regularly in the top 10 most viewed on YouTube. I think it's that Minecraft is huge plus the players are very engaged on the internet with it.
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#16I've always seen 4chan as the scumhole of the internet. It scares me that it's so huge. Do I have a wrong impression of it?
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#174chan's comment system is awful. I still don't really understand how it works. It seems like they could improve the design and pipe in new comments as they arrive, thus negating all the extra server load caused by browser extensions refreshing every second. Of course, I have no experience dealing with ~1B page views/month.
The comment system is part of its charm, it comes from the japanese imageboards.
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#18I've always seen 4chan as the scumhole of the internet. It scares me that it's so huge. Do I have a wrong impression of it?
Not really, no. I think it's size is more indicative of the standard age range it draws (a younger audience).
People keep telling me that there are decent parts of the place. Each time I try to venture in it is such a dizzying mess that I stopped trying.
It makes me feel old.
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#19I've always seen 4chan as the scumhole of the internet. It scares me that it's so huge. Do I have a wrong impression of it?
Maybe you've got a wrong impression of humanity?
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#20Its down now, right?
yeah. has been slashdotted!