Dear customers, dear partners,
the year is drawing to a close and we thank you sincerely for the great collaboration this business year.
Revenue year-over-year: This year we were able to increase the company's revenue by an impressive 65% compared to the previous business year. Our Black Friday was particularly successful, where we recorded a revenue increase of 50% compared to the previous year. For comparison: in 2023 the overall revenue increase was 48%, with product sales also doubling in November-December. This continuous development shows how our investments in infrastructure and expanding our offering directly drive our growth.
Milestones:
- Infrastructure optimization through Ceph cluster migration Prepaid-Host and ProHosting24 merged their NVMe Ceph clusters to achieve more efficient resource use and increased performance. This transition is based on a hyperconverged infrastructure with a total of 1984 AMD EPYC cores and 28.3 TiB of RAM. The new Ceph cluster consists of 24 AMD Epyc nodes, 51 OSDs, and offers a full-flash NVMe capacity of more than 235 TB, backed by a 100GbE backbone network. This modern infrastructure provides high data processing performance and excellent failover resilience.
- Adding cryptocurrencies as a payment method Since this year, we offer the option to pay with over 70 different cryptocurrencies. This expansion is intended to further increase flexibility for our customers while also appealing to new audiences. Bitcoin, Solana, and Litecoin were particularly popular, together accounting for the majority of transactions. With this initiative, we not only diversified our payment methods but also took an important step toward modern, future-proof payment options.
Challenges: 2024 was once again shaped by global challenges: hardware shortages and sharply rising prices hit us hard, just as in 2023. In addition, persistently high electricity costs were a burden that required even more precise planning and adjustment of our infrastructure. Despite these obstacles, we were able to continuously maintain and further optimize our services.
Statistics:
- In 2024 we successfully handled more than 4,650 tickets, a clear increase compared to 2023 (approx. 4,000 tickets) and 2022 (approx. 1,950 tickets).
- Our domain portfolio grew by 35% and continues to be concentrated on the TLDs .de, .eu, .com, and .net.
- In payment processing, PayPal dominates with 63.9% of revenue, followed by credit and debit cards (20.2%), Paysafecard (9.8%), and other payment methods such as crypto, bank transfer, Klarna, and Giropay. In 2023, the shares were PayPal at 57.6%, credit cards at 13.9%, Paysafecard at 19.6%, with the rest spread across other payment methods. In 2022, PayPal (approx. 60%), Paysafecard (15%), and credit cards (10%) likewise dominated as the main payment methods.
Goals and achievements:
- Built larger backup servers We expanded our backup infrastructure so that every customer can now use 10 backup slots.
- New location: Our Maincubes rack is now fully utilized, which is why we have already firmly set our sights on a new location in Frankfurt am Main. This will once again house a state-of-the-art Ceph cluster, offering our customers expanded capacity and even more performance. With cutting-edge infrastructure and redundant network connectivity, we continue to aim for maximum stability and performance in order to keep meeting our high standards going forward.
- API rework and backend redevelopment Work on the API rework has begun and will lead into the development of a new homepage and a modern web interface. This will be based on an API-first strategy.
Team and organization: Since November 2024, I, Christopher Sakel, have been working full-time on this project as the owner of Prepaid-Host. This decision was a significant step, as I can now invest all of my energy into the further development of the company. With full focus on Prepaid-Host, I was able to make internal processes more efficient and also intensify communication with our customers and partners. As a result, important projects such as expanding the infrastructure, integrating new services, and optimizing support were decisively advanced. This full dedication to the company marks a new chapter in its history, one geared toward growth, innovation, and an even closer relationship with our customers.
Conclusion:
We look back on a successful 2024, in which we not only grew economically but also took decisive steps to optimize our infrastructure and offerings. Our achievements would not have been possible without the support of our customers, partners, and employees. We would like to sincerely thank you for that and look forward to an equally exciting and challenging 2025.
