Hi Everyone,
We've switched our Patreon to EUR as a default currency, this should save us on fees, conversion instabilities and general transactional overhead in the future.
What does this effectively mean for OpenTrackr's Patreon?
Not much, other than a slightly more cost effective and more stable monthly donation revenue for OpenTrackr.
As a current subscriber/donator in USD, do I need to do anything?
You don't need to do anythi...
Hi Everyone,
First of all, I wish everyone a happy new year!
Just as prior years, I'm here to publish OpenTrackr's financial state of last year (2024).
The attached sheet will contain all incoming and outgoing transactions of OpenTrackr.
For this year there are barely any transactions, as I've mostly been making bigger payments for 5 or 6 months of co-location. This saves me time and effort by pre-paying for our datacenter co-location in bigger batches.
This year's she...
Hi Everyone,
Long time no see, sorry for the radio silence!
As with previous years, I'm here to publish OpenTrackr's financial state of last year (2023). The attached sheet contains all incoming and outgoing transactions of OpenTrackr.
I hope this gives transparency into how we're doing financially and where your money is going to.
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If you don't wish to open the document, here is a little summery:
Between 2023-01-01 - 2023-12-31 we've had:
- Incoming:...
Hi Everyone,
Just like last year I like to publish our finances of 2022, this sheet contains all incoming and outgoing transactions of OpenTrackr to provide transparency to our expenditures.
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If you don't wish to open the document, here is a little summery:
Between 2022-01-01 - 2022-12-31 we've had:
- Incoming €722,28
- Outgoing €992,29
We've started the year with €2495,92 in reserves from previous years and have closed the year wi...
Hi Everyone,
As promised last year, I plan on being transparent with how funds are being spent. I do this by publishing all incoming and outgoing transactions, so it's clear how many funds are left and what our monthly expenses are.
This isn't entirely foolproof, but it should at least show what your money is being spent on instead of it being a "black hole" :)
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Today I'm proud to present the first full year. This document contains all transactions up to 2...
Hi Supporters,
Some may have noticed it's been a bit quiet in here the last couple of months and I'm sorry for that! I've been very busy with life (moving and job related) which has caused me to forget.
As always I'm still working on OpenTrackr and I'm not planning to change anything about that anytime soon :)
For the time being I'll temporarily refrain from posting the bandwidth updates until I have more spare time, I don't think they got much attention anyway.
If y...
Hi Everyone,
I've been busy with life and moving places, but sorry for the late post!
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For those interested here are the bandwidth statistics of July
In July 2021 (01-07-2021 00:00:00 CEST - 31-07-2021 23:59:59 CEST) we've used 214.42 TiB of bandwidth, 73.44TiB received and 140.98TiB transmitted.
This is 159.82TiB less then last month, even a bit more if you were to calculate this month having 31 days while June only covered 30 days.
I already addr...
Hi Everyone,
You may or may not have noticed a sudden drop in total seeds/peers listed on the tracker, I don't know for sure what caused this.
I think the previous peer/seed count was inflated by spam IPs, because the current seed/peer listing seems to reflect the day/night cycle way better. Also the active unique torrent count is totally unaffected, indicating the tracker is still functioning properly.
I've tested connectivity from various places and networks all around the ...
Hey everyone,
I have some minor updates and partial bandwidth statistics for you today.
As of a few days ago we now offer a hourly updated fullscrape over at https://opentrackr.org/scrapes/fullscrape.gz -- We still offer fullscrapes through the tracker, but we may discontinue this in the future to reduce load.
This fullscrape is rate limited to 1... 2021-06-14 10:24:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone,
I was considering whether to write an update here or just stay quiet for the month. In the end I felt like it is more appropriate to write an update
April was a busy month! I've placed the new server in our datacenter and optimized it here and there, but I was still running into some odd bottlenecks with the tracker software.
I ended up contacting the creator of the open...
Hey Everyone,
I'm writing this post before jumping into the car and being on my way to the Datacenter.
The new server is installed, configured and ready to kick ass!
I've made some changes to the hardware since the last update. They are as follows:
My reasoning behind the PSU is that I wasn't confiden...
2021-04-18 11:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostA bit late this month, been busy!
The new server is coming along, I have received all parts and will now proceed to test the hardware to still be on schedule to hopefully get it into action this month!
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For those interested here are the bandwidth statistics of March
In March 2021 (01-03-2021 00:00:00 CET - 31-03-2021 23:59:59 CEST) we've used 177.84 TB of bandwidth, 84.57TB received and 93.27TB transmitted.
This is a decrease of 8.6TB compared...
2021-04-14 00:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
I'll start off with a welcome!
Welcome to all the new Patreon's we've gotten over the last week after the article on TorrentFreak. Due to them our monthly co-location costs are now fully covered!
Additionally, we received a total of 0.06287849 Bitcoin (Worth about €3000) in the last couple of days from various addresses, thanks to them the new server hardware is also paid for!
Any surplus in donations will be kept apart and will be used for future OpenT...
Hey everyone,
We're getting to the point where our current server is hitting its limit.
It's over 10 year old hardware (TorrentFreak wrote an article about it previously, give it a read: TorrentFreak: Opentrackr Coordinates Millions of Torrent Downloads on an Old Dell Server) and we're severely CPU bottlenecked. This is due to many re...
2021-03-23 18:26:33 +0000 UTC View PostFor those interested here are the bandwidth statistics of February
In February 2021 (01-02-2021 00:00:00 CET - 28-02-2021 23:59:59 CET) we've used 168.40 TB of bandwidth, 83.47TB received and 84.93TB transmitted.
This is a decrease of 21.23TB compared to last month. However with February being the shortest month, it only contains 28 days (3 less). Extrapolating our bandwidth usage to meet 31 days we come out to 186.44TB of bandwidth. This is a decrease of 3.19TB compared to last m...
2021-03-07 17:18:13 +0000 UTC View PostFor those interested here are the bandwidth statistics of January
In January 2021 (01-01-2021 00:00:00 CET - 31-01-2021 23:59:59 CET) we've used 189.63 TB of bandwidth, 92.12TB received and 97.51TB transmitted.
This is an increase of 11.75TB compared to last month.
Daily statistics: [Using vnStat]
Hi Everyone,
Some might have been expecting a Q4 release of the finances around now, but I'll be moving these to a yearly release schedule due to the low amount of transactions. I'll be releasing the full 2020 finances soon with the next update happening in January 2022. Sorry for that.
In other news, the DDoS attacks are still on-going but other then very temporary downtime it doesn't make too much of a dent.
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For those interested here are the bandwidth statis...
2021-01-12 14:51:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi Everyone,
I have nothing noteworthy to mention this month, so I'll just get on to business!
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For those interested here are the bandwidth statistics of November
In November 2020 (01-11-2020 00:00:00 CET - 30-11-2020 23:59:59 CET) we've used 165.01 TB of bandwidth, 76.38TB received and 88.63TB transmitted.
This is an increase of 0.19TB, however if we extrapolate the data (as this month has one day less) it comes out to an increase of 5.69TB (170.51TB tota...
2020-12-09 15:01:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi Everyone,
Oops, a bit late with the statistics this month! Don't worry, still here, just forgotten :)
This month we had to deal with some DDoS attacks, specificity attacking the service with UDP Packets, overloading the connection. We have some DDoS protection active, but it only covers attacks up to 10Gbps. When the connection got overloaded we simply suffered some minor downtime, but service quickly recovered.
Why one would target us? No clue, but it seems to have stopp...
2020-11-19 21:47:25 +0000 UTC View PostIts not much, but its here!
A couple of months ago I said I was going to play open card with OpenTrackr's expenses, if the question about finances ever get raised we would have something to work off from.
The excel file is very simple and it could use some more detail, but it should at least allow us to be able to manually trace back all transactions.
The attached .ods file contains all our expenses and income, separated on sheets.
If you do not wish to open the spread...
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for your patronage as always!
I haven't had time to post the financial report that was due yesterday, its very simple but I just need to make sure that's all. (Just a few transactions really.. Don't expect too much out of it)
The last couple of days we've been dealing with DDoS attacks impacting our server. As we currently don't have the finances to afford specific DDoS filtration services/hardware, we will just need to deal with the occasional decre...
Hi Everyone,
No other updates this month, just the statistics!
Here we go :)
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For those interested here are the bandwidth statistics of August
In August 2020 (01-08-2020 00:00:00 CEST - 31-08-2020 23:59:59 CEST) we've used 159.39 TB of bandwidth, 73.05TB received and 86.34TB transmitted.
This is a growth of 3.46TB compared to last month
Daily statistics:
[Using vnStat]
Hi Everyone,
Small update before I get on with the bandwidth statistics.
At the start of this year I noticed openbittorrent.com having its DNS record set to our IP, but never acted on this.
Last month I realized this was foolish and made some changes to the tracker to also support old traffic from openbittorrent.com! You will see this in in the bandwidth statistics starting on the 6th.
Now OpenTrackr accepts connections on 3 UDP ports: 80, 1337 and 6969
Port ...
Hey everyone,
Hope you're staying safe during the pandemic.
I'll start with a small update regarding finances.
As more donations come in (mostly from you Patreons!) I feel like it makes sense to release quarterly updates about OpenTrackr's finances. I've always believed transparency is key and being honest about our donations and expenses should be a part of this.
OpenTrackr is a non-profit service and if we ever get to the point of receiving more donations then we hav...
2020-07-04 10:53:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
First of all, thanks to all the new Patreons that have joined over the last month! We're currently at $20/month which equals to about 20% of the monthly bills paid. Awesome!
For those interested, here are the bandwidth statistics of last month
In May 2020 (01-05-2020 00:00 CEST - 31-05-2020 23:59:59 CEST) we've used 138.43TB of bandwidth, 64.45TB received and 73.99TB transmitted.
As I've finally got the bandwidth monitoring setup properly, we now ...
2020-06-07 11:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
I hope everyone has been safe and in good health during these times.
Just as last month, I'll post the Bandwidth statistics. As always if there is anything else you'd like to know let me know in the comments!
In April 2020 (01-04-2020 00:00 CEST - 30-04-2020 23:59:59 CEST) we've used 135.05TB of bandwidth. 62.87TB received, 72.17TB transmitted.
In the more detailed overview the first 7 days are missing, this is because I forgot to increase the Da...
Hey everyone,
I thought it might be interesting to see some bandwidth statistics from March 2020!
In March 2020 (01-03-2020 00:00 CET - 31-03-2020 23:59:59 CEST) we've used more then 118.91TiB of bandwidth. 57.13TiB received, 61.77TiB transmitted.
I say "more then", because these statistics are missing day 1 and 2 because we did not have bandwidth logging in place before that.
Daily statistics:
[Using vnSt...
Picking up on last month's post, if you like graphs then check out these TCP graphs!
2019-12-18 17:25:50 +0000 UTC View PostI thought it might be interesting for Patreons who didn't know about it: There are additional graphs which do not directly show on the homepage but are accessible.
Currently on the homepage we have the following graphs visible:
- Active Torrents being tracked
- Connections per second
- Seeders listed
- Peers listed
All these graphs show 7 days of data, however you can see other time periods simply by changing the URL of the image!
For example, to see a month,...
Thank you for becoming a patreon!
I've been thinking a lot about in what ways we could make donations easier and better for our users, sending a quick and easy transaction with bitcoin or ethereum have always been an option. However nothing is as easy as a simple patreon button!
Let me know if there are any questions about this Patreon or the tracker :)