Why did I make Beebs?
My grandmother was on holiday in Spain was struggling to watch BBC, so I built this for her.
Some fun info:
- 10k MAU, 5K WAU, 1K DAU
- 400TB per month
- 40k installs came from one reddit comment.
- Yes, it's legal.
- Decided against paywalling my existing userbase, so new users = paid, old users = free.
I don't mean to be "that guy", but how long until this will share the fate of all other VPNs that the BBC is currently blocking? We had a couple of years on VPN #1, then about a year on VPN#2 and the third lasted a month or two.
@andreasduess
Absolutely no worries, it's always good to have a difficult question.
Beebs is blocked about once every 3 weeks, we have plenty of back-up servers in place that starts redirecting traffic as soon as it happens. I don't want to give too much away here, but if the user blinks at the wrong moment, they won't notice the switch.
We'd had maybe 3 hours downtime in the past year and that was mainly because of a domain expiring, school boy error.
The main reason for it not working is that the user has installed another VPN extension afterwards.
The joy of being a single purpose proxy, is that you can focus well on unblocking a few sites.
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