Just saw this post, a friend gave me the link. Hmmm it’s actually very, very hard to manage a music site especially when it’s pulling 14TBs of bandwidth everyday or more than 400TBs every month.

I constantly have to improve server settings, configs, and load balance my site to several dedicated quad core servers. This is apart from the other sites I own and those too have their own dedicated servers.

In fact, we have just disabled the mp3 uploader temporarily because of too much bandwidth usage. Users need not to worry since we are currently creating a much better script and new layout for the site so watch out for that.

So you see, it’s not as easy as it sounds like BrianB said: “I bet he’s just sitting back now buying toys.”

To all aspiring webmasters and newbies out there, don’t lose hope and continue to work hard. I’ve had my fair share of failures, difficulties, trials, and even experienced being suicidal. lol kiddin.

We are actually currently developing new sites that i’m sure our Filipino people would truly appreciate and enjoy. My partner, Louie, is also venturing in the product affiliate marketing, and is even making much more $ than me.

We’re just too tired of seeing foreign-made sites with 90% of their traffic coming from the Philippines, if they can do it, why can’t we?

Thanks so much for reading my relatively boring, out-of-topic, and longISH post.

Sincerely,

Alex
owner, the mp3-codes.com network
email: graphichub@yahoo.com
ym id: graphichub
mobile no: 09054288878

5M a month… wow. Covered na server farm maintenance mo! Hehe.

And yes, from what I heard those Real Estates ads on the front page bring in around Php5 million revenues a month to Inquirer.

And it’s good deal for real estates companies too who are able to sell 10 house and lots per week from those ads.

@ tarugoman, according to their advertiser page, 38% of traffic comes from the Philippines, 31% from the US and 5.7% each for Middle East and Canada.

Which is why if you notice there’s tons of Real Estate ads on Inquirer.net, because that’s basically what OFWs and etc are after.

If you are going to constrain the site listings to only PH, why use a worldwide ranking? It makes no sense.

This isn’t a VC play. It doesn’t have strict P&L statements. It is a gaming site.

Convergence of media? Last time I checked, game sites have been awful when it comes to generating money. Even CNet gave up on games.

It’s not all about making money quickly. Some of these “web real estates” will be worth many times their value now later on, depending on how media converge in the future.

I bet he’s just sitting back now buying toys.

Candy Mag looks like a japanese site. Very eye-opening list.

Now, question. Why haven’t the print media covered these people. I remember when the localvibe group made it to the cover of Philippine Star magazine. These other guys here have achieved a success many notches above this group but they don’t get the pat n the back they deserve.

Some of these top sites are very useful as well: sulit and tipidpc, forums like gsmsandwich. Is iyot owned by an ilonggo?

The business model I like is the QJ.net network. Combine QJ.net and a source site like an mp3-codes and you’ve got a site that will last a very long time, in the service of the web community and a very lucrative business as well.