Most of my online activities are to do with making money online.
But what's as important as that and almost as rewarding, is saving money online.

When I was starting out, I made plenty of bad decisions with hosting and registrations, which were very bad value for money compared to deals I'm now aware of. For instance, it took me a very long time to get round to getting a reseller account for hosting, and I have all these old individual one-domain packages still live. As they gradually all come up for renewal, I'm cancelling the packages and transferring them to my new host and reseller package.

So if there's a lesson I've learned, it's that controlling spending and keeping as close an eye on outgoings is as important as watching the income. I guess it should have been obvious always, but I used to expect every new site to be the next FriendsReunited.com and wasn't overly concerned about a few quid here and there, and maybe I'm now more realistic.

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