We’ve reached several significant milestones!
The Milestones
We got to 5,000 published videos last week! This is more than 1,500 more videos added since the AV1 encoding conversion effort finished the summer of 2024. The average video size was around 50 MB after the AV1 conversion.
As of the HMV Makers List update of August 11th, 2025 there are over 900 creators onsite.
An important server migration is also finished. The legacy server we’ve used for the past four years was no longer serving the needs of the site. We’ve seen increased traffic over time, along with requiring more space and bandwidth for the thousands of videos we now have.
Release Rate
Daily release rates continue to be 4-5 videos per day, which we expected since the AV1 conversion effort. That conversion effort saved us much more space in the meantime, which allowed for that volume of releases.
We continue to stick with the site approach of steady, incremental releases at a consistent time (10 PM GMT).
The New Server
We have a server that now has 1 TB of storage. For context, we used about 300 GB of space in the past four years. This new server, with respect to storage, could serve us another 10 years if we didn’t consider extra added space. That means over 15,000 videos if we go by the current average size per video!
Bandwidth is also updated to be much better for the streaming experience. The legacy server would throttle rather harshly at times, resulting in slow loading times on the site during busy hours.
In short, the new server is much more efficient with significantly more space.
Can you filter by views and length based on the date of upload in these formats:
1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 1 year, all the time
Most viewed, highest rated, longest and random video