Hobby, labour of love. We see it as a contribution to the promotion of our country. We also have an active forum and a newsletter with about 6000 subscribers.
Normally about 8 to 10 hrs a week. Now I too a “pregnancy leave” from the site.
About 10 emails per day. Lots of questions, some fan mails and the occassional idiot complaining. We’ve been in the local press and have contributed material and photos to many magazines (here and abroad) as well as books and other publications.
1. Why do you have it? (business? hobby-related?) Purely hobby. It’s a “look at me” site… actually “Look at Anya, my baby”. It’s really useful since I live in Hawaii and most of my family is on the mainland. 2. How much time do you spend maintaining it (assuming you do it yourself)? Obviously, I’m updating it quite a bit, but it doesn’t take me a long time. Made a nice little template, just spend time getting the pictures ready. 3. What reactions do you get (if any)? Everyone’s glad the baby doesn’t look too much like Daddy 4. Has your site ever been hacked? Nope.
1. Why do you have it? (business? hobby-related?) Hobby: showing off my Godzilla collection 2. How much time do you spend maintaining it (assuming you do it yourself)? I haven’t touched it in ages. I used to spend a lot of time on it when my hobby was in full-swing. Haven’t done much with it since, oh, 2001 or so. 3. What reactions do you get (if any)? They appreciate the thoroughness, although some non-Godzilla fans wonder why I did all this. 4. Has your site ever been hacked? No, but my bandwidth doesn’t like people using pictures on message board. A pox on direct-linking!
Hobby…directs to my AMVs (free webhosting…very, very little room), distibutes iconsets, and reko cardsets I’ve made, gives me somewhere to put my writing whenever I manage to finish a project.
How much time do you spend maintaining it (assuming you do it yourself)?
Depends. Sometimes a few hours a week, sometimes a few hours a month. That’s making the material that goes up, rather than messing with the site itself.
What reactions do you get (if any)?
Very few, but I know I’ve been added to several reko cardset indeces.
I started this site last year because I was wanted to start my own business for an extra income source during college. Since I got a nice paying job I just use it for a bunch of little subsites, hosting large files, and for photo galleries [1,2].
I also started The Stratocaster Pages six years ago. It has since gotten at least 75,000 hits even though I don’t update it anymore and it has some broken links. One day I might spruce it up. I feel kind of bad because I don’t even use Fender guitars anymore in my band.
What reactions do you get (if any)?
My family was amazed six years ago when I had a website, when that was a foreign concept to most middle aged people. Since then I am the official “go to” guy for computer/web help.
Has your site ever been hacked?
Only by my girlfriend.
Why do you have it? (business? hobby-related?) both
How much time do you spend maintaining it (assuming you do it yourself)? The biz one I fiddle around with alot. I’ve never made one before. Half of the links don’t work yet, and when they do, I have a tendancy to go and change the whole damn thing anyway.
What reactions do you get (if any)? ** Hey, I’ve got a cute kid. I haven’t sold a thing on the biz one. I started it because I used to print my own stickers on office labels, and they’d fade right away.**
Has your site ever been hacked? It would take a truly bored hacker to do it, and I don’t know how concerned I would be.
It’s entirely hobby-related - just a collection of things I am (or have been) interested in.
I don’t typically add articles on there any more, but I keep it online for reference - all of my activity now takes place over on my related YouTube channel. I spend most of my free time working on that.
It’s growing in popularity (though not as fast as I would like) - mostly gets a positive reception, but I do have to deal with trolls and idiots too.
It’s never been hacked - I generally keep up to date with patches on the CMS, and my host takes regular backups.
Yeah, and Mangetout, a newbie with a mere 50K posts and a join date of 2001, finds and bumps a vintage-2005 thread why? I assume some other thread had a backlink, or that Mangetout did a search for a far more recent thread and this one came up instead or something, and that the zombie revive post was made without realizing the antiquity of the thread – ?
I have a website for my Taekwondo school. I do some of the maintenance in that I post blogs, etc., to keep it active for Google searches, but the rest of it is done by the company I hired to create it.
Yes - it had already clawed its way up from the grave before I posted, but that’s embarrassing. I am terrible at noticing when a thread is a zombie. Sorry.
