Hello again! I am going to keep this update short, but try to justify/give as much background as I can. Beginning July 6th, 2026 and applying retroactively, files uploaded anonymously that have not had a download/hit in over 2 years will be removed from Catbox. Catbox has been running for a little over 11 years now, and as such has accumulated what I can only call cruft. Prior to the introduction…
You know, at this point I should just make the “birthday” of Catbox April 14th. We weathered a lot this year! From getting deplatformed from Patreon, the primary source of funding, to running out of Storage while I was in Japan for 2 weeks, then to AI slop bots uploading 200+ GB of slop per day, there was a lot to handle! The good news is that’s all behind us! I would like to…
Hellooooooo~. It’s been almost 9 months since the last post, and I’m sure the first two items in the title don’t inspire confidence, however the last two don’t inspire confidence to me! And believe it or not, they’re all (kind of) connected! Jumping into it: Missing files Some of you may have noticed some files missing that were uploaded between August 2025 and the…
Heyooo. It hasn’t been too long since the last blog post, but this one’s going to be a lot more important… and quite a bit longer. tl;dr - Patreon deleted my page, refused to elaborate, and Catbox is now short $1,300~ in reoccurring income to pay the bill. Support Catbox Here What Happened In the early morning of May 20th, I received two email notifications from Patreon and…
I’m pretty bad at keeping to posting on Catbox’s actual birthday (April 6th), however, fear not! I am here! Once again I am not the best at posting about updates or changes, however there have been quite a few updates and upgrades in the last year! We moved cabinets again to higher voltage service (to support the massive amounts of hard drives needed). Catbox’s primary server was…
Hi there! As we approach Catbox’s 10th birthday (jeez I’ve been at this for a while.), I wanted to share something I’ve been working on in sort-of secret last year - Catbox Spaces! Catbox Spaces Catbox Spaces is a new, paid service I’ve been developing to help content creators share their content with their followers. It’s designed to be a content publishing platform…
Back at it again with another year! I know there have been no blog posts or updates, but don’t think that there’s no development happening behind the scenes! We recently moved from our half-cabinet colocation into a full cabinet colocation! Also, we passed over 100 TB of hosted content! That’s nearly double since August 2 years ago. That being said, I wanted to thank everyone for…
Back at it again with another year! I feel like I say it almost every year, but yes, the “development” of Catbox has been relatively stagnant. That isn’t to say that the maintenance/advancement of it is as well. This year we upgraded one of the servers, as well as purchased a new SAN with an additional 50TB of storage, which should put us into a longer stability frame. I’ve…
Update 8/17 - THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. In just 8 days we’ve nearly reached the Patreon goal, and purchases of merchandise and cryptocurrency gifts have put us past the required funding for not just this month, but the next 3 months as well! The amount of generosity you guys have shown me has honestly touched my heart, and I am forever thankful. Catbox forever! Heyoooo. It’s been a while…
Hi all, It’s been a while since I’ve posted/made any news updates. Life’s been pretty busy for me, as I’ve been enjoying (read: dying) a full time job. Unfortunately this leaves me very little time to develop new features on Catbox. None the less, Catbox remains. Thank you to all of my Patrons on Patreon for supporting Catbox despite this drought of development. There have been some background…
Hi there. It’s come to my attention that Comcast’s man-in-the-middle “Advanced Security” attack has been enabled by default for a large majority of their customers, and as such has blocked connections to files.catbox.moe. You will need to disable their MITM attack by following the instructions here (obviously disable instead of enable):…
Hey there, I just wanted to make a post about the recent errors some people may have been experiencing on Catbox when uploading a file. You may receive various errors, including a 504 Timeout, 500 Internal Server Error, or ID A:FF:FFFFFF. The root cause of these issues is primarily traffic and throughput. What’s been done recently Catbox has moved inside it’s datacenter to a half…
Helloooo~. First and foremost, wow I’m over 2 weeks late for the post. I’m actually pretty ashamed. More importantly, the earth has completed another revolution around the sun, and Catbox grows another year older. This year was pretty sleepy. I know in the previous birthday post I abandoned the redesign, but that wasn’t true. I’ve actually been working on it here and there.…
As always, thanks to the wonderful Pettankon for the art! Another rotation around the sun, and another year for Catbox! 2018 was kind of crazy! Being forced from my original VPS provider into owning my own hardware in a datacenter, going to Japan, and Mixtape kicking the bucket (i guess that’s 2019 but close enough), and all the small stuff I’m sure i’m missing in between, It’s been a blast!…
Updated Catbox’s encryption. Catbox now will only accept connections with TLS 1.2. Most users won’t notice a difference (besides your data being super more encrypted!). To see if you’re affected, check “Handshake Simulation” at the bottom of this webpage . I have also enabled HSTS and OSCP Stapling. This means two things: 1. Catbox will now only accept connections via HTTPS. This was the case…
I added two factor authentication using TOTP. That means you can now secure your account with your favorite authenticator app, like Google Authenticator or Duo Mobile! Make sure you keep your secret provided at the time of activation, in case you lose the app or your phone.
After many months in development, hopefully it’s worth the wait! I’ve finally purchased all the necessary hardware and found myself a colocation company in LA with reasonable prices, and have sufficient support (from you guys!) to move forward with it. While the initial cost is high, I’m confident that this will put Catbox on the right path for long term stability. Since I feel…
もう一回！ Thanks again to Pettankon for the art. This one is gonna be long, so skip to the important part if you want. What another year! While not a whole lot changed with Catbox, a lot of stuff has been brewing in the background. I should first address the silence as far as statistics and updates to the site. I’ll come out and say it outright - I fucked the statistics up. During a server…
A little explanation on my new stretch goals for Patreon: Reaching $200 would offset both the current monthly cost of running Catbox ($100~), and allow me to purchase new server hardware, which I can then colocate at an Internap datacenter for $100/month, effectively matching my current costs, while giving me greater flexibility and power. I could roll Project Lain back a couple months, or maybe…
Yeah so I fucked up the awstats thing and i’m really not interested in fixing it (it’s so fucking old) so I’m just gonna give overall site statistics from now on until i find a better log analyzer software (taking recommendations). *.catbox.moe Total Visitors: 113,674 Unique Visitors: 66,530 Pages Served: 322,201 Hits: 5,180,665 Bandwidth Usage: 19,734 GB