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The signup graph pretty much tracks the traffic graph. We added about 9k users in three days.

I'm writing up a technical blog post to go with the graphs, for people who are curious about what we did to keep the site up.

I signed up but I'm wondering, how does it make sense for you to run the site with just a small one-time fee?

The signup fee is there to put a brake on growth and offset the development and hardware costs of scaling the site when lots of new users arrive.

Our bread and butter is the $25/year from archival accounts.

Looking forward to that.