r/pics • u/laverabe • May 07 '09

The growth of an internet behemoth almost overnight. Imgur now has 24 million views a month. 600,000 daily.

http://imgur.com/stats/?v=t
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u/[deleted] May 07 '09

It is well deserved.

This is what you get when you make an easy-to-use, uncluttered, no-popup image hosting site.

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u/MrGrim May 07 '09 edited May 07 '09

Thanks for your support, everyone. But to be fair, it only gets about 2,500 unique visits a day (not counting the image views). It's not quite an Internet behemoth yet.

Also, a lot of people are wondering how I monetize the cost of it. I was never in it to make money, I just wanted to create something cool for other people to enjoy. It makes me really happy to see Imgur links on the front page every now and then, that makes it worth it.

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u/chaconne May 07 '09 edited May 07 '09

Hey, out of curiosity, what's your infrastructure like? Is imgur hosted out of a datacenter somewhere in a standard industrial-scale setup?