The status of the subscription experiment

The status of the subscription experiment

How many unique visitors do you get in a day? I mean it might be useful to compare how many people are putting their support behind LWN and others who are just well, enjoying the fruits of your labour without adequate recompense, to be polite...

Oh and in terms of reducing costs have you considered relocating? Canada offers a very high quality of life and is right next door. Those 1200 subscriptions at $5ea would work out to nearly $9480/month Cndn at current exchange rates. At that price you could have one very well paid staffer in Calgary or even two staffers.

You would not be the first Internet web site that made such a change. Securityfocus.com relocated most of their staff to Calgary precisely because you can live very well in Calgary on $70,000/yr Cndn. Some back of the napkin numbers makes that equivilent to about 740 subscribers.

Of course that is if you can stand living 1 hour from mountain resorts, hot springs and ski hills in the winter, hiking, boating and mountain biking in the summer, metropolitan atmosphere without the crime and crowding. Some of the mildest winters in the country. No earthquakes or hurricanes. If you have children the University of Calgary was recently declared the best University in Canada and the city has some of the best primary and secondary schooling anywhere. Also with the Supernet project going ahead in Alberta probably the fastest networks anywhere too. Did I mention broadband costs only $40 a month Cndn and is available everywhere in the city, soon the province?

Just a thought. ;)