Topic: small business

Is it worth starting a blog in 2024? Compared to years past, I've seen a massive drop in traffic (and consequently in revenue) across both my blogs. So no, it's not worth blogging in 2024 and beyond. Yet it's not all doom and gloom - there are still some cases where you might might still want to blog, which I'll get to towards the end. I also cover at the end better options for you to do instead of blogging.

When you're looking at purchasing a domain name, you might be wondering which registrar to use. Namecheap and NameSilo are two well-known, affordable, reputable domain name registrars. You can't really go wrong with either one in terms of reliability, but they have a different set of pros and cons that you should be aware of.

I've had personal experience buying domain names with both registrars. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of each.

You've installed Webmin, you can log in and out as root, but you don't want to do everything as root. It's better for both security and convenience if you can log into Webmin as your non-privilged Linux user. The problem: even though you've already got an existing Linux user on the server other than root, that user doesn't show in Webmin. Don't worry, this is completely normal for a new Webmin install.

Here is an illustrated tutorial for how to allow an existing Linux user to login to Webmin.

You've probably seen information online that makes it sound like there are bloggers making $1000 a month or more starting from their first month and going up from there, and you're (quite correctly) suspicious. Otherwise everyone would be blogging instead of doing other jobs, right?

To answer your questions, based on my experience, yes it is difficult to make money blogging, and yes I suspect there are a few bloggers out there who are lying on their income reports. I'll provide reasoning for this here and let you know the red flags to watch for.

Let's assume you don't yet have a website and you're trying to figure out how much bandwidth and disk space you need from your hosting plan. Here we'll use data from 3 of my own blog-style sites to find out how many visitors add up to how much bandwidth, and what amount of disk space is used.

You're hoping not to go over your allocated bandwidth or disk space at your web host, but you may be wondering what happens if you do. For example, what happens if you get a sudden traffic spike to your website, or your website simply grows faster than expected? Here the answers.