Business review 2024

New and improved features for 2024

2024 brought many service improvements at LRob.

Here are a few highlights:

• Opening of the LRob portal to order your subscriptions directly!
• Setting up the offer Personal Agency (8 areas)
• Update info andeco-responsible commitment
• New LRob logo
• Setting up the NGinx reverse proxy (caching files, Brotli, HTTP/3)
• Complete redesign of LRob accommodation offers and switch to the Twenty Twenty-Five theme
• BBR congestion algorithm for higher throughput on slow connections
• Setting up the reporting AbuseIPDB
• Installation of a new infra server
• DNS server migration and ARM VPS testing

And much, much more.

Hosting business 2024

WordPress hosting business takes off! Many of you have recommended LRob, and new resellers and motivated web agencies are of course making the numbers explode!

Hosted sites

In 2024, we jumped from 89 to 169 domains hosted. An increase of +90% (almost x2)!

Including sub-domains, this means a total of 217 sites who are hosted.

This also takes into account the one and only customer lost this year.

Retailers

In 2024, we welcomed 8 dealers, i.e. +400% increase!

Webmaster 2024 activity

LRob is much more than just a web host: we also provide webmastering services, including site creation, redesigns and other interventions directly on your sites. For every situation! This represents more than half of our turnover.

• 10 external sites repaired post-piracy
• 6 web redesigns
• 2 site creations

Technical figures 2024

Here are a few facts that will interest the geekiest among you.

• Backups: 20TB
• Upload: Approx. 60TB/year
• Average CPU usage: 15%
• 131,000 hack attempts blocked and reported via AbuseIPDB in 3 months, or 43,700 per month! We expect to reach over 500,000 by 2025.

LRob 2024 site attendance

Visits to the site jumped from +400% (x5), all the counters are in the green.

This can be attributed to news articles and LinkedIn posts.

Finance & accounting 2024

Sales figures

Sales in 2024 exceed 55 000€ (including nearly €10,000 via the LRob portal in its first year)

In 2023, the first incomplete year, sales amounted to almost €15,000, which was still decent for a start-up with only a few months' activity.

Taxes

The URSSAF and Tax total is close to 14 000€.

Business expenses

Expenses that are not deductible from sales under the auto-entrepreneur scheme.

Costs cover servers, software tools and telecommunications.

Amount: approx. 5 500€.

Net income

Salary after taxes and expenses :

I've had this year to live on: 35 600€ (€2,970/month)

While this is a good figure for a first year, it must be remembered that it required weeks of work well in excess of 35 hours.

Targets, forecasts and news for 2025

Objectives

Several objectives and guidelines have been set:

• Gradually tilt the balance to make lodging the majority of creations/remodels by 2025.
• Continue to provide high quality service and satisfy our happy customers!
• Make the same number or better
• Significantly reduce the number of working hours per week.

Forecasts

• Sales are expected to increase by at least +25%, taking pro expenses to over €8,000 a year.
• Hiring or a change of legal form could take place between 2026 and 2027.
• A new shared server should be available in the first half of the year.
• Backups should reach 30 to 40TB.

News to come (or already in place)

From January 14, a new telephone number (0221 827 827) for support! Behind the scenes, it's a complete VOIP switchboard, allowing for the future arrival of collaborators, the management of recorded messages, opening hours, and so on. It's even more versatile, so you're never far away.

As for the rest, we're going to consolidate our offers and make as much noise as possible, preaching the good word in an attempt to accommodate the whole world!

Conclusions

My standard of living has risen slightly compared with my last permanent contract, which for a first full year is a great achievement.

Growth is clear, clean and unambiguous. The company is viable.

Although the hosting business is increasing drastically, it's still a minority compared to creations/refonts and one-off interventions, and I'd like to reverse this trend.

Also, I'm working well over 35 hours at the moment and I'd like to try and reduce the number of hours.

This year has seen some fantastic collaborations. Supporting your projects is an honor and a pleasure!

Thank you all, and I look forward to continuing the good work with you in 2025!

I wish you all the best for the New Year and all the success you deserve!