Hi webmasters, it was around 1998 where I started playing with coding HTML and built my first personal website, one that surprisingly turned into a business. Later worked at some places coding and creating websites (and also content), the number of websites increased, same about MY websites and clients, later moved away from working on this for companies and clients and dedicated only to my websites, but still there is a lot of work and mainteinance. It's been somehow difficult to perceive how much hidden work this kind of job involves, but sometimes it's evident, quite noticeable, and sometimes it feels like battling with an army of electronic ants.
Sometimes I just feel tired and annoyed by managing so many passwords. Password managers? that helps, but there is always a limit to how much those can solve. So it came to me, how you guys are doing? too much work? ever decided to reduce your amount of websites? got tired of it? I personally moved away and only take care of MY websites, this helped a lot. Remember, some of us are a one man band, there is no team of developers involved.
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Creating original content, pictures, creating more new content, spreading the word on diff channels (perhaps social media), dealing with scrappers copying the content, every once in a while dealing with people claming to be the authors, speeding up the website, coding for mobile and desktop, dealing with changing standards or procedures (data structures on SE), dealing with deprecated functions, keeping updated, dealing with changes in technology forcing you to "fix what isn't broken". Having multiple email addresses to manage diff acounts and websites (some services force you to use a mail matching the domain), multiple accounts at diff online services, keeping your credit card up to date (they expire)...
Wait... let's breath, ok continue:
Dealing with multiple passwords on every acount, also dealing with services forcing you to change your password every X months, ok now webma$ter24487_1 doesn't work, now you must use 12 in length, at least one capital letter, at least one number, one special sign and don't include bits from old passwords, ok try again, ok forget it, your number of attempts has exceeded the limit, your account is blocked. Don't forget to backup, backup your computer, your server, use tools that preserve permissions and ownership. Wait, some free services expire if you don't login every 2 months or so, not enough email addresses? some online services WILL create a new email address for you (hello G), and don't forget: you will be receiving spam and offers on every single email address. Yes, update, install, restart, don't forget the ever changing procedures, privacy matters so now you will have to click here, read, scroll and then click agree before proceeding on some tasks...
