To those who want to host the Knitting Blogs Web Ring. . .

Okay. . . more info. . . 

First of all, Risa had a great idea -- joint hosting.  There are already a bunch of ring checkers.  But I think it would be great if 2 (or 3 or 4) of you decided to host the ring together.  It takes a lot of time and it's big enough to break up.  You could each concentrate on a section -- like one person could take sites 1-500 and another could take 500-1000 and one could be in charge of new applicants maybe? 

I've never really logged my time, but here's how it would go if things went smoothly:

There are about 1000 sites in the ring at any given time.  That’s 20 sections of 50 sites.  So your ring checkers will ideally be sending you a ring check about every 2 weeks.  Usually a ring check has between 1 and 10 problem sites listed (average of 5 maybe?  I've never kept track).  I would say it takes about an hour for me to go through each ring check -- email each person, move each site to the queue or do whatever else I need to do -- so that would be about 5-10 hours a week right there. 

Now if the ring is open, you have new sites to check.  I usually don’t check sites every day because I just don’t have the time!  But it takes about an hour for 5-10 sites, depending on if they have the code up and meet the requirements.  (You also have to go through and delete spam now -- and sites that join when the ring is closed, etc. . . )

In addition, there are emails pretty much every day.  This is variable, but increases a lot when the ring is open, or just after it has been open.  It can eat up a lot of time. 

So as you can see, even with all my helpers, it takes several hours each week -- so I think it would be great if several of you got together and took this on as a group thing.  I'm going to stay on until January 1st, so I'll be happy to help you out and get you started!  Please feel free to talk amongst yourselves in the comments.

Comments

[Nancy]

I would consider being a joint host. Sharing the wealth could work much better.

[Risa]

I'd definitely be a joint host as well. Sounds like it is definitely too big a job for one person (and I seriously applaud you Julie for doing it alone for so long) but far more manageable with others. You can count me in on that.

[keri]

I'm putting my knitting needle in the ring too. I would like to be a joint host.