Is your forum a hobby or business?

yes, but you make enough to fully pay for it all

 

Still not as much as you make though I guess you will continue to have to pay much more than you earn until Pluto Hosting has enough clients.

 

I refer to my forum as a hobby--I've received a bit of money, but it's gone right back into license payments, so I'm not really making money from it. I enjoy it, though, and that's all that really matters to me.

 

I can probably gaurantee that you've made much more, due to my costs being higher than yours

Anything else gained is just a bonus then right?

 

Exactly! I'd love to make money with my forum, but that's not why I'm doing it so if it comes, it comes--if not, so be it.

 

It's a hobby but I'm very serious about it and how things go with GamerBB.
I don't look to make any money off of it at all. Not right now at least.

 

Nice to see everyone here are not money grabbers and are just there for it's community and not the money

 

Yes, some of forum owners started their forums as a hobby.

 

Your post doesn't add much to this discussion. Elaborate more please?

 

During all the time I've been trying to run forums, I never wanted to do this for any sort of profit at all. It is just something fun that I do in my spare time, really. I don't think I'll ever transform owning a forum from a hobby to a business. This is something I do just for fun and just to get away from things for a while.

 

So far all my online websites are hobbies. Unless I manage to make some serious dough off one of them, they will remain as hobbies. I wish that someday I will manage to create a forum that can be considered as a business, because that means it would be huge.

 

Same here, running AdminBB is more of a passion then hobby, but if I can earn from it then why not... of course all the money earned will be used towards AdminBB, and expanding business etc.

 

Its more a hobby to me because I am not earning much and I am not planing to do my living from forums, blogs or sites.

 

Only ever a hobby. Any revenue from my old forum was stritcly for charity, in line with the forum's topic.
If I can make a buck or two on my next one, why not? But I'll never call it more than a hobby.