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My personal blog http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/

I run 2 Google Adsense ads on individual post pages and it more than pays for the cost of my shared hosting account. I haven't blogged in over a year after a pretty good run.

I also run http://dummyimage.com with a single ad which covers the increased monthly VPS cost to keep it running.

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Shared hosting is $50/yr, tops. I made more than that while reading your comment. That doesn't sound like much of an investment :P

I invested the time getting it set-up, writing content, yadda yadda... In the past 12 months it has earned me ~$300. It's enough to fund other side projects.

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