re: #24 SixDegrees

I ran my own web site for many years at my own expense; it’s not like it costs a lot, or even anything at all on some hosts. I added advertising a couple of years ago, and generate enough dough to cover my hosting costs.

The Internet was in existence long before ads on the Internet were. The cost of posting content is somewhere between trivial and non-existent. In my case, the time I devote to maintaining my site is something I’d do anyway, and did, for free.

It ain’t cheap if you have good traffic. And if you have good traffic it probably means you have an interesting product which takes up most of your time. And people need to make a living.