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Perhaps this has been brought up before, but I’m just curious as to how large some sites are, according to pageviews, that are running CI.

I’ll start off. 

I’ve got a local real estate site that averages between 160K to 200K pageviews a month.

Show us what you got!

Christian

796K pageviews last month on my biggest CI site.  That doesn’t include major search engine traffic or it would be 1.4M for last month.  773K and 741K the 2 prior months.  Growing at a nice clip.  It’s also a real estate site.

WOW….do you mind sharing the URL?  I’m in the process of redoing our real estate site (for the job that pays the bills!) and I’m gathering info.  If not that’s cool. I am also looking at possibly a personal project real estate site…we’ll see however!

Anyone else have something to brag about? 

Sorry, that would violate a clause in my contract about publicly disclosing technologies/code used to create it.  They’re ultra paranoid about that sort of thing and it’s one of the reasons I can’t use the upcoming CI3 on their site with its license changes, which is too bad.

49 page views in June. Drinks are on me! :-p

49 page views in June. Drinks are on me! :-p

:lol:

CroNix - Totally understand where your at.  Sounds like a good gig!

Aken - So at 100 pageviews you’ll be getting dinner? 😊

I retired last year (which is why you don’t see me around any longer), but still have a very few sites that I maintain, to the tune of an hours worth of work per month, sometimes only every 3 months.  And yes, I’m still under 50.

One such site got over 175K views in June.. a gaming community.  Not much, but then again it concentrates support for a game that hasn’t had an update for over 7 years.  I can’t believe it is still up and running, much less getting that much traffic.

A technical support site got just under 20K views, but that’s all I can report that gets more than 5K views per month.

That’s okay by me.  I’m living comfortably. 😊

Daniel - Congrats on retiring. Did you retire as a result of some of your websites or another job?

Nice to have a site that just keeps on going without much work, if any on it!

Daniel - Congrats on retiring. Did you retire as a result of some of your websites or another job?

Nice to have a site that just keeps on going without much work, if any on it!

How I retired… I could write a book on that, and I don’t want to hijack this thread.  Let’s just say while the websites provided a good experience for me and a good bit of income as well, I really got into web site stuff after I no longer had need for a job.  It was more of a hobby that generated a bit of fun money for me. 

I keep saying if I run out of other things to do, I may get back into it just to keep me busy, but retiring AND starting a family at the same time sort of precludes me having any time to myself for a long time.  I’ve got a 2 year old, and one more to arrive in October, so I’ve turned my retirement into being a stay at home Dad, which is the best job I’ve ever had in my life.

Daniel -

Hijack away!  Always love hearing stories of people being sucessful. As for being a dad being the best job…I couldn’t agree with you more…now if only I could get rid of the 40 hour a week job that keeps the roof over our heads! 😊

Christian

Okay, you asked for it. 
[Offtopic warning]
This is very much an “abbreviated” summary (no, not redundant, I summarized, then made it even more brief. Like I said, I could write a complete novel on the subject.)

Well, it all started with getting a good education… I went to public school but my father taught me a lot at home that I couldn’t get in schools.  Like computer programming.  Hey, in the early 1970’s, you didn’t get computer courses in elementary school.  I started learning programming from my IBM Dad when I was 8.  By the time I was 10, he brought home a printout of a program a team of IBM programmers had been working on “debugging” and “fixing” for 2 months, and they couldn’t locate the bug causing the program to freeze up.  I looked over the printout, got out a pencil and scratch paper, ran the program through using a scratch pad instead of a computer, marked up the needed changes and sent it back.  Let’s say they were impressed, because I solved in one afternoon what a team of top IBM programmers could not do in months.  I suppose it just came natural to me.

2 months later I beat out a lot of top chefs to win a cooking competition.  Yes, I was still just 10 years old. 

When I finally got my chance to go to University, I had difficulty settling on any one thing, so I studied a varied set of courses toward multiple degrees, with majors in Computer Science and Writing and with minor studies in Psychology, Accounting, Linguistics, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Music.  The only subject I ever had any trouble with was History, because while I tend to have a keen understanding of how things work in almost any field, I have difficulty memorizing dates. 😊 

I have, over the years, done everything from being an Italian Chef, own a breakfast catering company, restaurant management, Marriage Counseling, Computer programming, engineering design and drafting, writer, science teacher, music teacher, law enforcement, Insurance, bank management, traveling evangelist, and was even pastor of a small church.  I have loved everything I’ve done, but my favorite by far is being a father.  It is also the most challenging and the most rewarding at the same time.

Let’s face it though, I worked my way through school, starting my career as I went.  So I got a head start on things.  I’m not rich, but I am able to stay at home and retire partly because I have already worked so hard in life, and partly because I have a supportive wife who wanted to pursue her career.  Since I have already had such a wonderful success at so many careers, I decided to be supportive and stay home with the children while she pursued hers.  I married later in life to a younger woman who wanted both career and family, and she is doing quite well with it.  Me being in a position to stay home makes it easier for her to concentrate on her career AND have her family, so she is thrilled over it. 

We calculated things up, and discovered that if I were working right now, we’d actually not be able to keep as much money as we do now, because of taxes and child care expenses, etc.  So we actually make more money by me not having an income, or by keeping my income as low as possible.  Some of the maintenance I do for my existing clients have had to be done for free because charging would have put me into the higher bracket, and cost us much more than would be worth.