We've had 342,475 hits to Betty's in the past 30 days, but that was generated by 95,533 visits... a visitor clicks around more than once while they're here, so on average, each visitor generates 3-4 hits.
We had an average of 11,048 daily hits from an average of 3,082 different people per day. That's about the population of 2 large city high schools or a large university visiting Betty's every day. Some visit daily, a couple times a week or month, or just once a month.
Only 6 people donated to Betty's during the month of May, & the month is 3/4 over.
Here's the real kicker. We serve an average of 4,818gb (4.8TB) of data per day from our servers to our visitors in the form of stories, posts, pictures, & multi-media. That's an average of 144540gb (145TB) per month! Even the most expensive dedicated web server hosting plans at $240-$650 a month only allow 40-100gb of bandwidth per month. We use 40-100 times that much in a single day! About 2/3 of that is used up just by stories, not pictures, movies, or music.
There are some server companies who claim to offer "unlimited" bandwidth... They lie. Once you use up 40-100gb within a month on an "unlimited" server plan, they severely limit the speed, & response time of the server to the point it's almost unusable. They send you a nasty letter for you to cut back usage, tell you to pay for a second or third server to handle the load, or just cancel your account & kick you off the system.
Good luck trying to upload or download the large database or backups for a large site or network. Most of those server plans can't even handle downloading or uploading large databases & backups, because they exceed their size, loading, or packet limits. So it would be extremely difficult just to move a large site intact to another ordinary server.
This is why we use multiple servers for various pages & tasks. It spreads the loads over several instead of just 1 or 2. That's how the big boys do it. They use an array of servers, not just one.
Stories still remains shut down because of lack of support, but it used up about 2/3 of our resources. Our typical Stories visitor are the biggest leechers on our system. They are 2/3 of our traffic, use 2/3 of our resources, but are the least likely to donate, click on an ad, share a link to us, or mention us at other related sites. I see them visiting other sites where the site, mods, or their fanboys clearly say we closed down years ago, or that I'm dead, but they never disagree or say anything about it to let them know the truth.
UncleGadget's PSK research only gets 56 visitors per day but got about $900 in donations since July. We ran ads here at Betty's for a test for 30 days. PSK research got 200 times more ad clicks, & made 200 times more money than the ads here did that month -- with an average of only 56 daily visitors... I don't know any of them & they don't know me. The PSK YouTube channel also generated about 40 times more ad revenue than our Betty's YouTube channel.
When it comes to support, ad clicks, or donations, per percentage of users, sissies are sure really sissies when it comes to supporting us. If I put up pictures of Pluto, a star chart, or an old B&W Japanese Sci-Fi, I make money on it at PSK. If I put up 30,000 sissy pictures, or a dozen crossdressing movies here, & do a lot of work, I get hardly anything for it.
And let's face it, many go to stories just for J/O material, but almost never support us. You know, in the real world if you expect to get laid, you're expected to pay for dinner & the ride on a date. Where's my bed/laid money or dinner for keeping stories up for 23 years? Our authors & I feel raped. It's like, bang-bang, then they leave & forget about us until the next time they're horny.
Those guys probably spent more on Vaseline, K-Y, & hand lotion to beat off over the past 23 years during visiting stories than in support for Betty's. I'll bet if they donated what they spent lubricants for J/O & sex while visiting stories, it would support Betty's for several years.
A $1.69 bottle of hand lotion or K-Y lasts a couple months. At least 2,000 people are beating off at stories per day. That's at least $20,000 they spent on lubricants for sex while visiting Stories in a year. And when they run out, they quickly get more, but never consider supporting the site they used it at.
Ad clicks don't cost anything, but most people at Stories couldn't even be bothered to do that when I ran ads.
Very small donations or only a little pocket change would be much more than enough if only 10% of our visitors donated. But only 0.002% of our users ever donate. Those people bitchin' about me mentioning being broke & the lack of donations have no right to complain since almost all of them never sprung a single penny in donations, or tried to support us in any way after years of visiting us.
Suddenly I'm a real bad person because I became disabled & elderly so can no longer afford to pay for all of this out of my own pocket??? Go to those other "free" sites to get data-mined & tracked up the yazoo. When you get turned down for that job you wanted, get your security clearance rejected, or lose your divorce or other legal battle, thank the data mining & tracking at those other "free" sites for putting too much bad info about you out there.
With just your email address or ISP ID number, & the time of day you used it, I can look up if you were a regular or member of just about any sissy & ABDL site in the world, & just about any other site or store that you regularly visit... in minutes! But I could not track you back to here at Betty's thanks to our security, & that we don't data-mine. How much more can they find on you when you apply for a job, or an attorney, law enforcement, government or security wants to look you up? They're paid to dig much deeper, & are professionally equipped to do so. But they won't track you to Betty's.
Windows 10 is probably the worst OS ever. So why did the make it? It's a data mining, tracking, & ad generating system, & not a true OS. They're making a fortune selling your private & personal data.
Ad revenue on the internet is old news. People use ad blockers or have become ad-blind. Data-mining is the new big money maker on the internet. They want to get anything & everything about you, your habits, associates, friends, & family to sell to the highest bidder. The data collectors/wholesalers sell your data to governments, advertisers, attorneys, law enforcement, corporations, & sometimes hackers. Some website owners/builders are totally innocent by not realizing the software, or scripts they use on their site, or their web server is collecting their user data without their knowledge.
Here at Betty's we don't use "out of the box" software & site builders full of tracking software. I know how to read & write scripts & code so can spot suspicious or tracking codes. We don't use that nasty stuff here. We truly are free. We don't data mine & sell your info. Our software, code, & servers don't either.
Map of visitors to Betty's & Unclegadget during the past 30 minutes. We're the busiest on weekends these days, & we lost a lot of users by Stories still being closed down due to lack of support. Still, this isn't too bad without it, so far:
Topic: Map of recent visitors to Betty's (Read 40134 times)
