SayUncle sells out
It’s true. You may notice the (currently empty) ad spot over there on the right. I long held that I would not pimp for money on this site but have since had the capitalist in me take over. The fact is that this site costs me about $300 per year to keep up and running. I’m just defraying the costs a little and do not entertain any notion that I’m going to make major bucks selling ad space. Any additional money will go to either 1) contributing to causes I deem worthy or 2) buying guns and stuff. Also, it’s an experiment. I want to see how much a third tier blog can make in ads.
Additionally, Henry at Blogads informed me that they were looking into the idea of networking blog ads. For example, they’d create a gun rights network and an advertiser could purchase ads in bulk that would appear on gun blogs. Sounds good to me.
Oh and to get things started (and to see if you’ve read this far) the first three people to email me with the word Blogads in the subject line get a one week ad for free.
Update: One left. Act now. Void where prohibited. Offer ends soon.
Update: All gone now.
March 8th, 2005 at 11:53 am
Regarding paying for a site – I can’t quite figure out why you (and others) don’t just use the free blogspot sites? Sure, they’re down occasionally but it’s hardly noticeable. I have no problems posting 99.9% of the time. I have a free graphics hosting site I use for pictures.
Of course, you have a domain name but that’s no more that $20-30/year, depending on where you reserve it.
Is the extended functionality you have on this site (categories, etc) worth the expense?
March 8th, 2005 at 11:57 am
I’m a control freak so I prefer to have my own domain and all that. I think it’s worth it as I had many problems on blogger. It’s money well spent, as far as i’m concerned.
March 8th, 2005 at 12:42 pm
Same here. I did the Blogspot thing when I started, and was happy to pay for better hosting and better blogging software. I only pay $9/month for 600 MB of storage space.
March 8th, 2005 at 12:59 pm
Can I donate my free ad to the Brady Campaign? 🙂
March 8th, 2005 at 3:55 pm
“Sure, they’re down occasionally but it’s hardly noticeable”
hmmm i do not know about that. they are constanly slow, and never are up to speed.
though they have made imporovments, they also need to purchase more hardware.
the only reason why i am still with blogspot is that I am cheap, and do not have the readership to actually generate paying for the costs of the site (which is not expensive i know)
March 8th, 2005 at 8:46 pm
Manish,
You do that, and the NRA gets my ad 🙂
But seriously Les, who do you use for hosting??
As I posted yesterday Blogger Sucks!! (like, its down right now, again)
March 8th, 2005 at 9:58 pm
I’m using a company called omnis. They are about $6/month. Not as much storage as Les, but they aren’t bad. I’ve had one case where the server’s perl engine died for about 24 hours. Also, one case where a server crashed and they lost a months worth of data due to bad backup policy. Though for what your getting its not bad.
March 9th, 2005 at 12:09 am
I’ve never had a major, or even minor problem with Blogspot. Odd that so many other people have.
March 9th, 2005 at 11:42 am
countertop: I use Westhost.com. No problems, and they’re good about sending advance notice of planned maintenance (which never seems to last more than an hour, and is done late at night or early in the morning).