"Elf-Disclosure" for Sep 2024
September was a "bed-in-and-bugfix" month, with most of the attention going to the US datacenter trial, node refreshes, and new bundles.
I'm happy to announce that for the second month, we covered our cash expenses! 
To get us started, here are some shiny stats for Sept 2024, followed by a summary of some of the user-facing changes announced this month in the blog...
Stats
| Money | Jul 2024 | Aug 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| Expense: Cluster | $2,417 | $2,414 | $2,341 |
| Expense: Store | $76 | $76 | $100 |
| Expense: CI | $100 | $100 | $100 |
| Expense: Cloud | $20 | $30 | $30 |
| Expense: Development | 150h / $22,500 | 150h / $22,500 | 180h / $27,000 |
 Expense: OSS Sponsorship | $538 | $695 | $692 |
| Total Expenses | $25,651 ($3,151 cash) | $25,815 ($3,315 cash) | $30,263 ($3,263 cash) |
| Income | $1,752 | $7,700 | $8,706 |
| Income % of cash expenses | 56.6% | 232% | 267% |
| Income % of all expenses | 6.8% | 29.8% | 29% |
| Focus | Jul 2024 | Aug 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| Subscribers | 175 | 243 | 260 |
| Unique visitors | 25.6K | 36.7K | 29K |
| Total pageviews | 70.2K | 96.7K | 72.9K |
| Discord members | 1198 | 1411 | 1461 |
| YouTube subscribers | 188 | 302 | 352 |
| Focus | Jul 2024 | Aug 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| Total invested thus far | $207,550 | $233,365 | $263,628 |
| Total revenue | $11,438 | $19,138 | $27,844 |
| Income % of total invested | 5.51% | 8.2% | 10.56% |
Resources
The stats below illustrate CPU cores used (not percentage). These stats are incomplete this month, since ~20 users have migrated to the 3 US cluster nodes, neither of which are visible on this graph.
Examination of the kubectl top nodes output reflects the transition from elves (contended), and hobbits / rangers (dedicated) to "hansels" (contended) and "gretels" (dedicated), as we've added additional bundle types (halflings and nazguls).
Why Hansel & Gretel?
Bundles are datacenter-agnostic, but nodes are specific to each datacenter, and we needed a way to differentiate US nodes from DE nodes. The fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel originates in Germany 
kubectl top nodes
NAME CPU(cores) CPU% MEMORY(bytes) MEMORY%
fairy01 2156m 13% 86516Mi 67%
fairy02 1564m 9% 48642Mi 37%
fairy03 652m 4% 47908Mi 37%
gnome01 1228m 15% 10309Mi 16%
gnome02 2502m 31% 42575Mi 66%
gnome03 1195m 14% 14924Mi 23%
goblin04 2816m 23% 90773Mi 70%
goblin05 2898m 24% 74631Mi 57%
goblin06 1406m 11% 71479Mi 55%
gretel01 1762m 11% 33346Mi 25%
gretel02 1622m 10% 26038Mi 20%
gretel03 563m 3% 25650Mi 19%
gretel04 2019m 12% 22489Mi 17%
gretel05 1675m 10% 19200Mi 14%
gretel06 476m 2% 20682Mi 16%
gretel07 823m 5% 25157Mi 19%
gretel08 2260m 14% 19789Mi 15%
gretel09 728m 4% 20849Mi 16%
gretel10 659m 4% 18705Mi 14%
gretel11 1667m 10% 25293Mi 19%
gretel12 678m 4% 21304Mi 16%
gretel13 501m 3% 23556Mi 18%
gretel14 1957m 12% 33353Mi 25%
gretel15 582m 3% 19706Mi 15%
gretel16 351m 2% 13557Mi 10%
gretel17 2738m 17% 22125Mi 17%
gretel18 829m 5% 25685Mi 19%
gretel19 82m 0% 6064Mi 4%
gretel20 2385m 14% 23498Mi 18%
gretel21 1012m 6% 14159Mi 11%
gretel22 366m 2% 21019Mi 16%
gretel23 882m 5% 20174Mi 15%
gretel24 1565m 9% 29582Mi 22%
gretel25 424m 2% 13987Mi 10%
gretel26 507m 3% 12456Mi 9%
gretel27 91m 0% 7988Mi 6%
hansel01 3742m 23% 40420Mi 31%
hansel02 2687m 16% 40812Mi 31%
hansel03 1804m 11% 51333Mi 39%
hansel04 3223m 20% 38226Mi 29%
hansel05 2367m 14% 30032Mi 23%
hansel06 2215m 13% 28721Mi 22%
Last month (Aug)'s for comparison:
kubectl top nodes
NAME CPU(cores) CPU% MEMORY(bytes) MEMORY%
elf01 4732m 29% 37966Mi 29%
elf02 4606m 28% 72359Mi 56%
elf03 6338m 39% 68418Mi 53%
elf04 5252m 32% 66787Mi 51%
fairy01 333m 2% 29793Mi 23%
fairy02 3105m 19% 66423Mi 51%
fairy03 669m 4% 32951Mi 25%
gnome01 1645m 20% 31897Mi 49%
gnome02 812m 10% 21018Mi 32%
gnome03 1113m 13% 20071Mi 31%
goblin04 977m 8% 65694Mi 51%
goblin05 745m 6% 61605Mi 47%
goblin06 748m 6% 60959Mi 47%
hobbit01 2702m 16% 31086Mi 24%
hobbit02 2553m 15% 38650Mi 30%
hobbit03 2678m 16% 29243Mi 22%
hobbit04 1720m 10% 27237Mi 21%
hobbit05 1403m 8% 32276Mi 25%
hobbit06 2197m 13% 33353Mi 25%
hobbit07 282m 1% 29300Mi 22%
hobbit08 3565m 22% 32240Mi 25%
hobbit09 2992m 18% 36826Mi 28%
hobbit10 1855m 11% 23843Mi 18%
hobbit11 5561m 34% 42420Mi 32%
ranger01 2434m 15% 40497Mi 31%
ranger02 3254m 20% 31510Mi 24%
ranger03 2408m 15% 29345Mi 22%
ranger04 1459m 9% 25206Mi 19%
ranger05 1573m 9% 32525Mi 25%
ranger06 3676m 22% 29718Mi 23%
ranger07 1340m 8% 16793Mi 13%
ranger08 3016m 18% 20714Mi 16%
This graph represents memory usage across the entire (DE) cluster. Interestingly, tenant memory usage has is on par with last month, while CPU usage is significantly less.
Other high consumers of RAM:
- rook-ceph: uses RAM for caching on its network-storage-related workloads
- csi-rclone: used for mounting all rclone-compatible storage mounts, primarily RealDebrid libraries
- kube-system: the Kubernetes control plane, including the cilium agents which manage the networking / policy enforcement (currently 11K flows/s across 30 nodes)
- traefik: all inbound access to the cluster / services
- kube-prometheus-stack: our relatively un-optimized observability stack
- mediafusion: an excellent (but RAM-hungry!) Stremio addon
kubectl top nodes
NAME CPU(cores) CPU% MEMORY(bytes) MEMORY%
fairy01 2156m 13% 86516Mi 67%
fairy02 1564m 9% 48642Mi 37%
fairy03 652m 4% 47908Mi 37%
gnome01 1228m 15% 10309Mi 16%
gnome02 2502m 31% 42575Mi 66%
gnome03 1195m 14% 14924Mi 23%
goblin04 2816m 23% 90773Mi 70%
goblin05 2898m 24% 74631Mi 57%
goblin06 1406m 11% 71479Mi 55%
gretel01 1762m 11% 33346Mi 25%
gretel02 1622m 10% 26038Mi 20%
gretel03 563m 3% 25650Mi 19%
gretel04 2019m 12% 22489Mi 17%
gretel05 1675m 10% 19200Mi 14%
gretel06 476m 2% 20682Mi 16%
gretel07 823m 5% 25157Mi 19%
gretel08 2260m 14% 19789Mi 15%
gretel09 728m 4% 20849Mi 16%
gretel10 659m 4% 18705Mi 14%
gretel11 1667m 10% 25293Mi 19%
gretel12 678m 4% 21304Mi 16%
gretel13 501m 3% 23556Mi 18%
gretel14 1957m 12% 33353Mi 25%
gretel15 582m 3% 19706Mi 15%
gretel16 351m 2% 13557Mi 10%
gretel17 2738m 17% 22125Mi 17%
gretel18 829m 5% 25685Mi 19%
gretel19 82m 0% 6064Mi 4%
gretel20 2385m 14% 23498Mi 18%
gretel21 1012m 6% 14159Mi 11%
gretel22 366m 2% 21019Mi 16%
gretel23 882m 5% 20174Mi 15%
gretel24 1565m 9% 29582Mi 22%
gretel25 424m 2% 13987Mi 10%
gretel26 507m 3% 12456Mi 9%
gretel27 91m 0% 7988Mi 6%
hansel01 3742m 23% 40420Mi 31%
hansel02 2687m 16% 40812Mi 31%
hansel03 1804m 11% 51333Mi 39%
hansel04 3223m 20% 38226Mi 29%
hansel05 2367m 14% 30032Mi 23%
hansel06 2215m 13% 28721Mi 22%
Last month (Aug 2024)'s for comparison:
kubectl top nodes
NAME CPU(cores) CPU% MEMORY(bytes) MEMORY%
elf01 4732m 29% 37966Mi 29%
elf02 4606m 28% 72359Mi 56%
elf03 6338m 39% 68418Mi 53%
elf04 5252m 32% 66787Mi 51%
fairy01 333m 2% 29793Mi 23%
fairy02 3105m 19% 66423Mi 51%
fairy03 669m 4% 32951Mi 25%
gnome01 1645m 20% 31897Mi 49%
gnome02 812m 10% 21018Mi 32%
gnome03 1113m 13% 20071Mi 31%
goblin04 977m 8% 65694Mi 51%
goblin05 745m 6% 61605Mi 47%
goblin06 748m 6% 60959Mi 47%
hobbit01 2702m 16% 31086Mi 24%
hobbit02 2553m 15% 38650Mi 30%
hobbit03 2678m 16% 29243Mi 22%
hobbit04 1720m 10% 27237Mi 21%
hobbit05 1403m 8% 32276Mi 25%
hobbit06 2197m 13% 33353Mi 25%
hobbit07 282m 1% 29300Mi 22%
hobbit08 3565m 22% 32240Mi 25%
hobbit09 2992m 18% 36826Mi 28%
hobbit10 1855m 11% 23843Mi 18%
hobbit11 5561m 34% 42420Mi 32%
ranger01 2434m 15% 40497Mi 31%
ranger02 3254m 20% 31510Mi 24%
ranger03 2408m 15% 29345Mi 22%
ranger04 1459m 9% 25206Mi 19%
ranger05 1573m 9% 32525Mi 25%
ranger06 3676m 22% 29718Mi 23%
ranger07 1340m 8% 16793Mi 13%
ranger08 3016m 18% 20714Mi 16%
We perform daily backups of client volumes throughout the day, on the hour, in 24 evenly-distributed batches. As a result, we see spikes of ceph throughput on the hour:
In general, the contended and dedicated nodes show slightly more traffic incoming vs outgoing (video being transcoded, or streamed with buffering), which is a big improvement over previous months where Plex/Aarr configurations showed huge amounts of ingress for relatively little egress, as symlinked video files were "analyzed" but not streamed!
Last month (Aug 2024)'s for comparison:
Retrospective
US cluster
About 20 users have made the switch to the US cluster. We've been through a few weeks of "fine-tuning" for the resource constraints in the US (less RAM/CPU, more bandwidth), and with the Riven RAM database limits we've now applied, the platform has been stable for the past week or so.
Here's what the cluster looks like today (compare this with the kubectl top output in the CPU/RAM sections above):
root@eagle01:~# k top nodes
NAME CPU(cores) CPU% MEMORY(bytes) MEMORY%
eagle01 475m 5% 10632Mi 33%
yankee01 2327m 29% 20906Mi 65%
yankee02 867m 10% 21798Mi 68%
yankee03 1130m 14% 19992Mi 62%
root@eagle01:~#
Our biggest concern is the US cluster is now the lack of redundancy on the control-plane (there's only one eagle node, currently), and simply a lack of capacity to meet demand.
There's new hardware on back-order for the past 2 weeks, which I'm told will be available to us in the next week or so, bringing us to 3 eagles (HA FTW!), and doubling our workload capacity to 6 yankees.
If you'd like to gauge whether the US cluster would be more suitable for your workloads, visit https://speed.elfhosted.com and perform some comparative tests!
New store theme and layout
As flagged in last month's report, the store has received a refresh, with a new theme and organizational structure. Apps are now sorted by type (chat, backup, streaming,.. ), and activity (sharing, managing, watching..), and Ideogram's 2.0 model has been brought to bear on our product images.
The checkout process is still clunky though, and adds more friction than we'd like. Turning on the "next-gen" block-based checkout gives us "express checkout" with Apple/Google Pay, but it breaks ElfBuckz, and the ability for users to pick their own username on checkout, so further refinement is required here!
Tiered discounts
We've added the Woocommerce Memberships Plugin, which allows us to now offer tiered pricing for bundled subscribers.
This tiered pricing allows us to offer cheaper supplemental apps to users who've already subscribed to a bundle, as follows:
| Bundle | Discount | Simple App | Complex App |
| - | - | $9/month | $18/month |
| Hobbit [⅛ dedicated] | 22% | $7/month | $14/month |
| Ranger [¼ dedicated] | 44% | $5/month | $10/month |
| Halfling [½ dedicated] | 66% | $3/month | $6/month |
| Nazgul [all yours!] | 88% | $1/month | $2/month |
If you've already added non-bundled apps (custom domains, storage mounts, etc) to your bundle, you'll need to cancel / re-subscribe these to to take advantage of the discounted pricing. Create an #elf-help ticket if you need a hand with this!
More details in this blog post.
$1 Daily Bundles
In the Aug 2024 feedback, many of the responses to "how did you find us?" had to do with the initial free credit / trials we offered. While we can't get trials back (they break billing and bundle-hopping), we wanted to lower the "barrier to entry", so we now have 1-day expiring "demos", allowing prospective new users to "kick the tyres" for 24h, for just $1, once-off.
We have demos for every Plex / Emby / Jellyfin combination with Riven or the Aars, and will be adding more options in future for Torbox, AllDebrid, Debridlink, etc.
Nazgul / Halflings arrive
With the standardization of dedicated node types for DE ("Gretels"), we can now finally offer the larger-sized packages users have been asking for, and during September, we introduced Halfling (50% dedicated) and Nazgul (100% dedicated) bundles!
Of note, both Halflings and Nazguls can burst up to 1Gbps, but on Halflings that 1Gbps is fairly shared with any neighbors, whereas on a Nazgul, it's all yours!
More details in this blog post
Mooar apps
Now that we've explained that bundled subscribers get discounts on extra apps, note that September also saw us add the following new apps:
Tunarr
Tunarr - create live TV channels from media on your Plex servers, and more!
Configure your channels, programs, commercials, and settings using the Tunarr web UI.
Access your channels by adding the spoofed Tunarr HDHomerun tuner to Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby. Or utilize the m3u Url with any 3rd party IPTV player app.
Threadfin
Threadfin is a better-but-still-PITA fork of Xteve, letting you bring your IPTV into Plex. It sort-of works, depending on your provider.
West's Blackhole Script
West's scripts include a "blackhole" shell script, which replaces the functions of RDTClient. It's dethroned RDTClient in https://savvyguides.wiki, and while some of its functions are redundant to us (Plex requests, etc), having an alternative to RDTCLient seems sensible. Especially one which can use to integrate the Aars with Torbox.
Blackhole is included in all bundles
You don't have to do anything to get blackhole - it's included in all Hobbit / Ranger / Halfling / Nazgul bundles!
Petio
Petio is a third party companion app available to Plex server owners to allow their users to request, review and discover content. The app is built to appear instantly familiar and intuitive to even the most tech-agnostic users.
Petio will help you manage requests from your users, connect to other third party apps such as Sonarr and Radarr, notify users when content is available and track request progress. Petio also allows users to discover media both on and off your server, quickly and easily find related content and review to leave their opinion for other users.
Petio is an ongoing, forever free, always evolving project currently in alpha prototype stage and now available!
Requestrr
Requestrr is a chatbot used to simplify using services like Sonarr/Radarr/Overseerr/Ombi via the use of chat!
Features:
- Ability to request content via Discord using slash commands, buttons and more!
- Users can get notified when their requests complete
- Sonarr (V2-V4) & Radarr (V2-V5) integration with support for multiple instance via Overseerr (only for 4k/1080p)
- Overseerr integration with support for per user permissions/quotas and issue submission
- Ombi (V3/V4) integration with support for per user roles/quotas and issue submission
- Fully configurable via a web portal
Doplarr
Doplarr is a CLI tool to provide a Discord-based interface to a Radarr / Sonarr instance. You can use it, for example, to allow Discord users to make requests, without providing direct access to Radarr / Sonarr.
Immich
Immich is a self-hosted replacement for Google Photos. Detailed instructions and video guides are available here.
Pairdrop
Pairdrop provides local file sharing in your web browser.
- Inspired by Apple’s AirDrop.
- Fork of Snapdrop
Features
File sharing on your local network that works on all platforms.
- A multi-platform AirDrop-like solution that works.
- Send images, documents or text via peer-to-peer connection to devices on the same local network.
- Internet transfers
- Join temporary public rooms to transfer files easily over the Internet.
- Web-app
- Works on all devices with a modern web-browser.
MediaFlow Proxy can be combined with public / ElfHosted MediaFusion to allow users to simultaneously stream from RealDebrid with Stremio/Kodi, from multiple devices on multiple networks, without a RD account ban (like Comet's ProxyStreaming feature).
Coming up
Even mooar apps
Apps currently requested can be found (and submitted!) here
Notable coming-soons:
Guide / blog refresh
Now that we have a mostly-workable theme for the store, the ElfVengers and I will be moving much of the guides from the docs site (https://elfhosted.com) to the store, since this is more suitable for frequent, collaborative edits.
We'll also be moving the ElfHosted blog to the store, for better integration into our products, member-only content (provided by the new membership plugin!), and automated emailing of new blog posts (you'll have seen a few of these recently).
We're not sure yet exactly where the division should be, but the docs site should remain technical and price-agnostic, whereas the store should present what we offer, commercially, as simply and attractively as possible.
US East Coast DC
Now that we have the US West Coast DC humming, we've started the process of building out an East Coast DC, in Pennsylvania. Please submit your suggestions for what the DNS suffix and node names should be!
Torbox Teamup
Wamy from Torbox is keen to team up with us on a product bundle / offering to support ElfHosted Torbox users. We're still ironing out the details, but rather than trying to use Torbox to replace RD for gigantic-library-building, possible applications are:
- Using your private trackers with the Aars for "infinite streaming Plex", while continuing to seed back and maintain your ratio.
- Adding a "backup" debrid service for your most critical / popular content, so that you have a fallback in the event of RD rate-limits / changes.
- Sourcing non-torrent, premium quality from Torbox's usenet sources.
Stay tuned for details!
Your ideas?
Got ideas for improvements? Send us an EEP (ElfHosted Enhancement Proposal) here!
How to help
Another effective way to help is to drive traffic / organic discovery, by mentioning ElfHosted in appropriate forums such as Reddit's r/plex, r/realdebrid, and r/StremioAddons, which is where much of our target audience is to be found!
Join us!
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What users say..
Here's what some of our usersfriends say..
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@hashmelters (Discord)
(responding to a Reddit thread re the cost of ElfHosted vs mainstream streaming / self-hosting):
I didn't know that the goal of this project was to compete with large companies running/renting entire DCs. I was under the impression that the goal of this project was to manage the updating of almost selfhosted applications on a shared platform with other users. Basically, be my sysadmin for me.
That being said, paying for services is the 'easy button'. There is a real world cost incurred for the time saved. Time is money. Time is the most valuable currency that exists. Once time is spent, it's forever lost, one cannot retrieve it again (yet). In my mind, there are 3 options for use of time with respect to: mainstream, selfhosting, elfhosted.
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elfhosted - my time is valuable, I want my own curated content without being forced to browse past the same damn entry 500 times just to find out that I can't watch the movie I want because it's not available in my current location or was removed last week from mainstream providers.
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selfhost - I care about costs and I have nothing but time to waste or I want to learn about the backend of the systems involved. I'll pay for my own VPS/homelab, electricity, manage the OS, manage app updates, figure out how to make the apps talk nice to each other, create my own beautiful frontend.
I know how much my time is worth, does that reddit poster know how much their time is worth? Without knowing what you are worth, you can't make effective capital expenditures with respect to the time it will take to recoup the capital.
I know I don't need elfhosted at all for my use case. I choose to stay with elfhosted because it's my 'easy button'. It's an efficient capital expense for the amount of time it saves me managing my own hardware, apps and saves me electricity costs. I'm also in a situation where I don't have upload bandwidth from my home to serve HD content to myself remotely. If I lived back in a city, I would still be here. My time is worth $$/hr.
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