The personal Website of Andy Schön of New York. Now in its 16th year on the Web.
In 1994, I started the personal Website that soon thereafter became known as Andyland and has existed persistently as such ever since. This is the first and the original "Andyland" Website.
How does this Website Make Money?
It doesn't make any money - it's a hobby that I do in my own time and that I've always operated with money out of my own pocket. Andyland has never made a profit - actually, it has cost me money each of the 16 years since I started it.
Website Version
The current major revision of Andyland, casually named "14.0" due to it having been originally designed during the 14th anniversary year of Andyland, was first published on August 3rd, 2008.
Server
Andyland was first hosted on AOL, then partially on Rensselaer university servers and partially on a shared server in Pennsylvania. Then for many years it was served on a sequence of two private RedHat / Fedora Linux Andyland servers on a shared partial T1 line in Limerick, PA.
Finally in 2008, I moved it to a private Mac Mini running Mac OS X Server 10.5 on a 20Mbit/2Mbit static IP cable modem line in my apartment in New York City. The server, equipment, and premises have significant anti-theft measures, are run on a long-life UPS, and are backed up hourly via Apple's "Time Machine" to RAID'ed hard drives that are permanently inside a large safe with significant fire, theft, water, and structural collapse damage protection. There is a 24-hour Apple store nearby for emergency hardware replacement. :-)
I upgraded to a newer Mac Mini in December 2009.
Uptime and Monitoring
Andyland's Website, database, and e-mail uptime are monitored by AlertSite from eight cities around the globe: Capetown, London, New York, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo.
Traffic
The andyland.com Website gets 200-300 unique visitors every day.
Design
The primary font is Arial, with Gill Sans Ultra Bold and Copperplate Gothic used in the Website logo and in some illustrative graphics. The color palette is made up of my favorite color, #EECC33, and its "left complement" as follows: #FFE883, #A18712, #122EA1, #274FF2, and #839BFF.
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Other Domains
Friends and relatives of mine have the following Websites on the Andyland server as well: fortgrundsow.com, nyubee.com, thepromiseofnewyork.com, and theraul.com.
I also own the domains listed to the right. Some have been separate Websites in the past, but now they all just redirect to andyland.com, into which any prior content from each has now been consolidated.
Legal
"Andyland" is a trademark of mine used to identify this Website. It has been established that "Andyland" has been in use as the trademark identification of this Website since 1994, and it has been established as well that no other Website nor Web-related entity had used "Andyland" as a trademark nor identification prior to that time.
"Andyland.com" has been a trademark identification of this Website since April 26, 2003, and I have explicitly purchased all prior ownership of that trademark, and of that Internet domain name, on that date.
As such, it is a violation of United States and international intellectual property laws to use the trademarks "Andyland" or "Andyland.com" as a name, title, or other identifier of any other Website or Web-related entity without my express written consent, even in this context prior to registration.
I have to date not yet had cease and desist letters sent to those violating the "Andyland" trademark nor brought suit against them, however this is not an indication of my consent nor does it indicate my intention to consent nor my lack of desire to seek such elimination of violations at some point in the future.
Please refer to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)'s Arbitration and Mediation Center (AMC) and/or your own legal consel regarding matters of domain name ownership and trademarks for Websites and Web-related entities.
The current Andyland logo is also a trademark of mine for identifcation of this Website.