Reply to: How many of you

[Sysman]

Minimalistic website with some indexes into technical stuff.

It's very handy for putting up screen shots and code examples. When I was doing some Apache stuff, it was faster to access my own site for the manuals than the official Apache site.

Peak number of hits: 2000 one afternoon when I wrote something amusing and got linked to by an online magazine.

I host it on a system at home, which means that I'm not limited to the software or disk space provided by my ISP, and can see the logs in real time.

[Ruprect]

3. Comlpete trash website which is mostly pictures of me throwing up.

Come on then socky, whats the URL?

[hyperD]

I've got one for the company which hasn't generated any genuine business leads but provides reassurance during the bidding process.

I do get around 100 unique hits a day but most of the time I get phonecalls from companies offering cheap IT services (the fuzzies) or a miraculous conference which will increase my business volume 100 times.

I've several big clients and all the business is true direct, fixed price B2B and obviously, no agencies. At the moment I've too much work on so if the site generates any additional leads then I will have to outsource additional work/employ scrotes which I'm not too keen on.

If I can get the balance right then I'm outta here in 10 years.

hyperD in "a touch of threaded" mode

[expat]

have your own website?

I'm sitting here bored out of my skull rebuilding the RaQ4 again so I can host my company site which is no more than a vanity exercise and something else to put on the business card.

Do your sites serve a purpose? Do they get any hits?

Yes, several sites with different purposes. My main site gets 300-700 hits a day. My CV pages get about 150/month for each one. I get a lot of calls from them: all agencies.

I was getting about 6000 hits/day at one time but that was because someone referenced a photo of mine in his MySpace profile, and as far as I could see, every time this had to be delivered by MySpace (as a thumbnail-sized pic) it came to my site and downloaded the whole 700k hi-res and converted it again. I stopped that.

[wendigo100]

have your own website?

I'm sitting here bored out of my skull rebuilding the RaQ4 again so I can host my company site which is no more than a vanity exercise and something else to put on the business card.

Do your sites serve a purpose? Do they get any hits?

I knocked one up years ago, but I decided it was a complete and utter waste of time for what I do and emptied it.

I've got a personal one but I cannot be arsed with that either.

[wobbegong]

Is he?

. . . 'she', Sir.

[Churchill]

Wots a website?

Is he?

[Sockpuppet]

Mines'a a 1-page overview of what the company does, with a link to a technical forum I regularly help out on. I thought posting my own details with a phone number etc. would be a bad thing for IR35? There's only me in this particular company, but my site says we're a consultancy, and my right of substitution clause may suffer if the only contact displayed for all to see is my own.

Er? Sub Contractors. There is nothing to say the you must substitute withing your company.

get a info@ e-mail address and an 0845 and your laughing.

[BillHicksRIP]

Mines'a a 1-page overview of what the company does, with a link to a technical forum I regularly help out on. I thought posting my own details with a phone number etc. would be a bad thing for IR35? There's only me in this particular company, but my site says we're a consultancy, and my right of substitution clause may suffer if the only contact displayed for all to see is my own.

[Sockpuppet]

I have 3.

1. is the company website ... complete tosh buts its a nice place to put detailed descriptions of what I do ... case studies etc.

2. plan B is completley online. Should be running in a month or so. Its very cool (trust me) - not least becuase I am hoping that a few pimps go out of business.

3. Comlpete trash website which is mostly pictures of me throwing up.

[Cliphead]

Got three, one contractor, one s.w business and one pure rubbish. All they have in common is lots of orange.

"The future's bright..."

[xoggoth]

Got three, one contractor, one s.w business and one pure rubbish. All they have in common is lots of orange.

[cojak]

I'm looking at starting a blog in the New Year. I've just got to decide what to put in it (a task easier said than done...)

[TheFaQQer]

I have my own, a techie blog, and a support forum - it helps advertise a bit as well, especially when I'm going for niche jobs which my forum focuses on.

I have got work through it for running training courses - this month's average is just over 80 visits a day (2200 hits, according to the stats this month)

[Cliphead]

Although as Cliphead says, it's main purpose was to give me my very own cojak@cojaktraining.co.uk

Just for the Celtic fans, I registered hailhail.net so I could have tony@hailhail.net.

PM me if you want one.