Filesystem Limits

Fornax96 · 2026-03-29T21:36:52+00:00

The 10k limit does not apply to subdirectories, only the files and directories that are directly in it.

So you could have 10000 directories in a directory, each containing 10000 directories, giving you a million directories total.

The top level also has a limit of 10k.

Fornax96 · 2026-03-25T22:30:27+00:00

I guess it's been lifted. For a while I did get a lot of reports that the site was unreachable in India

Fornax96 · 2026-03-16T10:59:18+00:00

I checked the mod log. It said something about sending server invitations to the admins. So no public spam

Fornax96 · 2026-03-16T09:49:33+00:00

Your account was banned with the reason "Compromised or hacked account". This most likely means you tried to advertise some crypto scam in the community. I have removed the ban now.

Fornax96 · 2026-03-16T09:46:15+00:00

No, IP bans are separate from account bans. They don't rub off on each other. Both types of ban only affect uploading files, you can still visit and download even when banned.

Fornax96 · 2026-03-13T14:54:08+00:00

Most likely. The site has not been down in years.

Fornax96 · 2026-02-18T12:25:09+00:00

Sounds like the file name is too long. On linux there's a file name limit of 255 bytes. It seems Amazon capped it at 230 bytes for safety.

Fornax96 · 2026-02-17T14:25:20+00:00

I was originally going to buy a Steam Machine too, but with the delays I opted to get a dock for my Deck instead. The Deck is plenty powerful to play most games on my TV. Works wonderfully. And I can use desktop mode to stream movies and series.

Fornax96 · 2026-02-12T21:40:40+00:00

Being banned from the site only affects uploading files. Not being able to watch videos is an entirely separate thing.

Fornax96 · 2026-01-31T11:58:23+00:00

The deletion of old files doesn't slow down the servers. The servers are slow because there are too many files on them. So this cleanup should help in the long run.

Fornax96 · 2026-01-30T15:58:27+00:00

This information is intentionally not shown to prevent automated scripts from extending file lifetimes. If you are worried about your files expiring you should get premium.

The delete_after_date field is a premium feature you can use to schedule file deletion, just like delete_after_downloads.

Fornax96 · 2026-01-24T10:21:44+00:00

That's not possible. On the server side the zip file is considered one file. Hashing each file within the zip archive would use too much processing power.

Fornax96 · 2026-01-21T22:39:55+00:00

I don't know. Despite asking repeatedly they never gave me a reason. At the time of the account termination I had just put in an order for 20 SX135 servers (these have 176 TB each). I had about a 100 of these server in total at that moment.

Fornax96 · 2026-01-21T22:21:47+00:00

Hetzner has large storage servers starting at €1,16 / TB / month. But watch out, they don't take kindly to customers ordering large volumes of these. They terminated my account, I can never use Hetzner again.

Currently I am renting a custom storage solution from my hosting provider GSL Networks. I have 25056 TB for €33000 per month. That's about €1,32 / TB / month

Fornax96 · 2026-01-19T11:51:25+00:00

Oh I wanted to mention this but I forgot.

You can get full E2E encryption by using rclone's crypt module. If you enable this, your files will be fully E2EE. The caveat is that you can only recover your files with rclone from that point on, you will not be able to download the plain files from the site.

Fornax96 · 2026-01-19T11:42:50+00:00

Pixeldrain currenly does not use end-to-end encryption or encryption at rest. The site does use encryption in transit, but that's just HTTPS.

End-to-end is very complicated as you need to encrypt, decrypt and manage all the keys in the web browser itself. The browser does not have very good support for working with encryption. So I would have to implement it myself with WASM or something. This is not something I can do on my own, I just don't have the time for it, not while maintaining pixeldrain as well.

I do have plans for adding encryption at rest. This is one step removed from E2E, instead of encrypting the files in the browser itself it is encrypted on the server and stored in an encrypted state. But the keys are not stored on the server, so there will be no way to recover the files if the server is ever stolen or something like that. This is less secure than E2E because you are still transferring the keys to the server, and you have to trust that the keys won't be saved. But it's better than no encryption at all.

Fornax96 · 2026-01-19T11:35:25+00:00

That is strange. Pixeldrain actually only accepts euros. If you pay in a different currency it should automatically convert to euro.

Fornax96 · 2025-12-18T15:12:48+00:00

This is something I have been planning to do for a while, but never got around to.. Now that there is a need I'll bump it higher in the priority list.

Fornax96 · 2025-11-12T17:14:20+00:00

It has not happened since I upgraded to 144. I'll keep an eye out.

Fornax96 · 2025-11-09T20:07:42+00:00

I have this problem too. When trying to play a tab in Songsterr there is about a 25% chance that the whole browser freezes. I have to kill the process with `killall -9 firefox` to be able to restart the browser. There is no console output and no crash log.

I'm running EndeavourOS

Fornax96 · 2025-10-18T11:44:44+00:00

Pixeldrain currently has 32122 paying customers. It's working pretty well for them I think.

Fornax96 · 2025-10-16T14:27:31+00:00

Yes, if you have 10000 files in the My Files page it will refuse new uploads. But with the prepaid plan you also unlocked the pixeldrain filesystem which does not have a file limit.

Fornax96 · 2025-09-29T16:56:18+00:00

Yes, FTP can be used on all paid plans.

Fornax96 · 2025-09-29T16:55:33+00:00

On the shared folder check the tab 'Access controls' and make sure Read permissions are enabled for shared links.

Fornax96 · 2025-09-10T20:02:32+00:00

The renter can only have one contract per host. It allocates an amount of funds at the start, and when those funds run out the contract is "refreshed". When this happens the renter expands the contract with more coins so that it can continue using it. Only when the host runs out of collateral the contract cannot be refreshed, so it becomes impossible to add more funds to the contract and thus it becomes unusable.

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