You forgot to: 1) prove that you are from soupwhale
Edited the front page with a statement that 'johnwittle' on 'bitcointalk.org' is the admin of soupwhale.
2) if you are in fact from there, you are missing working links at that site, like the sign up for premium account, getting started, FAQ, Network, ...;
The website is a work in progress and, so far, has been entirely designed by the users in a completely anarchical manner (hence the hentai slideshow background on the Network page ugh). I'll probably eventually get around to updating the website, but I don't really care. The server already pays for itself, so it's not like i'm in a huge rush to get more customers. I just thought some people would appreciate the free seedbox (an almost unheard-of service these days), and perhaps a small percentage of those people would want to pay for more space.
3) the specs of the machine are not listed there, there is no way we can verify that what you are claiming is even close to the reality.
https://i.imgur.com/edIl3kt.pngDid a quick grab of the latest kernel, it didn't get up to full speed (as you can see, max speed was 12M/s average at 7M/s). That's still damn fast, and obviously for larger files it can get faster.
Soupwhale's running an i7, but as you can see it's almost full. New accounts will probably end up on breadwhale or ricewhale.
At $4/month a person can just go and grab some cheap VPS instead of a shell shared by lord knows how many people. You need to go a lot cheaper here, and a lot of basic information is missing.
Most of those VPS's won't allow torrenting, or maybe they do but they'll kick you off at the first sign of a DMCA. Or maybe they don't have a super friendly IRC with lots of people willing to help you out on your cool linux projects. Or they won't sit down with you for a couple hours, of their own free time, and teach you the basics in a ytalk session.
Also, I don't think you can get a VPS with unlimited bandwidth/cpu/mem usage for
free. That's the key word here. I like having people use my service because it makes me feel good to teach people how to use unix, to give them the hosting they need for their projects, to help them get a large buffer on private trackers, etc.
$4/month is more of a donation with perks than a purchase of a service (though, of course, I guarantee the paid service). But only the people who want to use it as a seedbox will be paying for additional space. People who just want to host a website, a streaming radio service, a minecraft server, a mumble/vent server, a garry's mod server, openVPN, some webapp, they get it for free. People who want secure email, hosted by a dude they can call up on the phone if they have a question instead of a multinational corporation, they get it for free. People who want a VPN so they can look at porn at work, they get it for free. If they end up wanting more than 10GB they can pay for the extra space at a pretty reasonable price, while paying for my nicotine addiction.
I'm sorry some of the basic information is missing. I'm a mom&pop shop, just looking to get a couple free packs of cigarettes every once in a while. You're probably right, though. I'll start putting more information on the website when I get a chance.
