Upvoted. This is something I learned rather recently. Sometimes it's more performant to slowly leak than it would be to free properly. Then take x amount of time to restart every n amount of time.
I doubt they'll call it a failure regardless of how it does.
If anything it's a great money maker for WWE. How's it a failure for them by any means? They're making more for giving less. They can sell the library elsewhere to make more. Unless you're speculating it's a failure for ESPN in which case it remains to be seen.
WWE could care less if people buy the PLEs since they have a guaranteed payment from the deal.
They're also towards the (seemingly) tail end of a hot period that lasted around the same, if not, longer than the attitude era. It was also even more profitable even accounting for inflation.
WWE has no reason to worry until the last year or so of the new deal. Nothing matters until then. They will make a ton of money and be immensely profitable.
Edit: Content and the cost being worth it is continually debated and yet sports continually pay more in rights fees while everything else seemingly gets less. This falls close enough to sports to fall in the loss-leader category of wanting to have the programming for prestige to build the brand as opposed to directly making money.
Think about sports rights and events like that. Millions of dollars in rights fees that don't get made back even in advertising, etc. It means a lot for station X to have something like the NBA, how much it means to have WWE PLEs remain to be seen for ESPN.
Another option if you need public access without something like tailscale would be to use ddns and a AAAA record. Something like https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient would help do that.
That way if the IP changes, you'd pick up on the change for your vanity url within a few minutes.. and can get https certs for that url as well.
Edit: I reread the OP. This doesn't help if clients need direct ipv4. Sorry about that.
Makes me wish they further prioritize the ability to move accounts from instance to instance. Things need to be thought of as best effort and not exactly a sure thing.
I have mostly random videos with things I've been interested in over the years. I've been doing a short a day for over a year now. The shorts are pretty random but surround things that happen on my life.
I love video and live production. I haven't been able to really do it since college and don't have time (or equipment) to do consistent long form content; but shorts are easy and fun enough to come up with.
~Bad~ eh security advice: use an alternative ssh port. Lots of actors try port 22 and other common alternatives. Much fewer will do a full port scan looking for an ssh server then try brute forcing.
Something that may help:
Why doesn't GitHub Pages fit your use case? It's nice to get free static hosting from them.