Nice thinking Martin. I'll have a think Quote from: pippin on 01/08/2012 09:37 pmChris,don't know whether I'm supposed to ask this but it keeps nagging me Can you actually _live_ off this site? I mean: even enthusiasts have to live off _something_ and this certainly has to take all your time, doesn't it?Nope. Blimey, we'd get a ton of stuff written if I could do this as a day job. I've got two "day jobs". One of which I can do whilst I'm hanging around on here, so you probably only notice that I'm missing off site a lot of the GMT morning, and that I mainly write articles around this time (past midnight), get to bed 2-3am ish, get up at 8am, back in for about 1pm. Never been a big sleeper I've never taken anything off the site, not a flight to a spacey thing, not a computer (I really need a new PC, this one's sounding like it's in pain, lol), all goes into a account which is ringfenced to pay where the site is hosted in Dallas, Texas (as opposed to say my personal account). So the site pays the site. I top it up if I have to (had to do that a lot in previous years, but recent years L2 and some ad revenue has kept the situation solvent).We're pushing the advertising side of the site this year, as we've got solid and impressive visitation numbers to show, and we're making the cost of advertising really cheap, so hopefully that pushes on.Some sites make money via syndication (like when you see space.com articles on Fox News or MSNBC), but that probably wouldn't work for us as we're not mainstream type content.We're investor-ready by way of we have revenue streams (investment would allow a bulk server buy - which would save a ton of cash - and then a rev split with an investor), but any such situation would only be if I kept editorial and managerial control of the site's content...to the point a reader or L2 member wouldn't see any impact.So long as I can pay the rent and keep myself in food via my day jobs and this site doesn't break the bank by needing subsidy, I'm cool. Got to remember, I get to report about spaceships, and people actually read the reports! So providing my fingers don't drop off and people like the site, I couldn't be happier about putting the hours in!
Chris,don't know whether I'm supposed to ask this but it keeps nagging me Can you actually _live_ off this site? I mean: even enthusiasts have to live off _something_ and this certainly has to take all your time, doesn't it?
Thanks for the info Chris !!!I've always wondered about how NSF got started. So I gather you live in England then (from the above)? But the site is hosted in the USA.
Quote from: kcrick on 01/10/2012 02:17 pmThanks for the info Chris !!!I've always wondered about how NSF got started. So I gather you live in England then (from the above)? But the site is hosted in the USA.I'm from here: York. 2,000 year old Roman/Viking city, world's largest Gothic Cathedral and other cool stuff, such as an amazing football (soccer) team - all the UK people chuckled at reading the latter.Site is hosted here: Softlayer Dallas.