Servers, servers, and more servers

With the amazing support we've seen over the past few months, we've been able to go on a bit of an upgrade spree. We now have a total of 49 servers online, in 9 locations, across 7 countries, and 3 continents. Our bandwidth capacity is now over 65Gbps!

Late July saw the new NA cache cluster go live, which added around 20Gbps of capacity for North and South American traffic.

Earlier today the SEA cache cluster went live too. Based in Singapore, and with approximately 4Gbps of capacity, this new cluster serves both SEA and Oceania.

Today also saw a couple of experimental EU cache servers go live (eu-cache1 and eu-cache2) which each have 4x the capacity of our other EU cache servers. This will give us better bursting capabilities at peak times. If this test is a success, we'll be looking to replace all of our EU cache servers once the next funding goal is reached.

Part of what sets nopy apart from other hosts is our cluster design. Our file clusters are comprised of traditional file servers, with each server storing a particular file. We have file clusters in both NA and EU. Once a file has been downloaded a certain number of times in a short period of time, future downloads for that file are served from our cache clusters, which are located in EU, NA, and now SEA. This allows popular files to be served from multiple servers at once, increasing speeds for that file, whilst also not slowing down the original file cluster. This is explained on our FAQ page, which also has some other information if you're interested in any of the technical aspects.

The past 5-6 months have seen us double our bandwidth capacity, whilst also serving record traffic (almost 7 petabytes in September!). Thank you again for all of your support. We'll continue to add servers and improve for as long as our awesome community is behind us :)

Finally, another shout out for the discord server! https://discord.gg/dzVC8qG