It is all your fault. My tiny little blog has grown dramatically, thanks to you. I am now getting over 1 million hits a month. I originally signed up with FlyWheel. They are a great little company but, because of the amount of traffic being generated at sonar21.com, they were going to up the annual fee to a minimum of $4800 and a maximum of $7200.
While I have been blessed with financial support from some of you, it is no where near the amount that I would need to maintain the account at FlyWheel. So I am moving to a new platform offered by RightForge at a much more reasonable price.
I am hoping the transfer is seamless and you notice no problems with accessing the site. My eternal gratitude to all who take the time to read and even more appreciation for those who write such intelligent commentary.
Tom Malatesta a good friend turned me onto you, then you were on the 2020 Corsi Zoom calls once in a while….That turned out to have a couple good ideas which went nowhere; I was the guy who sent the Brad Rotter 7-pager to Keith Kellogg in the WH about Jan 5 and he replied GOOD READ…he was Pence NSA in the WH. Since then we spoke a couple times…always fun.
LOVE YOUR STUFF—keep it coming sir!!!!
Phil Cannon ptcannonx@gmail.com
Amen. I’ll hang with you no matter what.
Knuckledragger: what a wonderful name, l know the feeling well.
ITS A PLAN …….supporters thoughts.
Apple rips 30% off app revenue. BUT THE BILLING IS SAFE, therefore a fair price.
That means a lot to me having had $thousands disappear from my bricks and mortar bank account..
My God awful, ex Army “shit faced,” attitude kicked in and my money was returned in full the next day.
Apple tip jar. Refer Wipr no ads…happy with the job Tap donate a buck fifty. Apples receipt is all safe and sound. I’ve done that a few times.
Larry gets a million clicks, less Apple safe banking fees and it’s looking like $700,000.00.
I am so old l can remember buying a newspaper 7 days a week. Now they cost 5 bucks a go. Full of ads and woke crap.
Larry provides an education and l don’t care what the spooks think.
So Friday is “Click for Larry day.”
Who knows he may make enough money to afforded the Salty Bears 80+ “T” shirts with fancy collars on’um. With premium speckles for panache, style and of course, “chick magnet,” appeal. That’s only what is getting around the traps, you know…..
PS : l have suggested this before. It is the only commercial way to support a blog without the incessant, Spyware, Tracking, Location shit fest of the Ap world.
I too will hang in with the Larry. No Nuke War, no more Colour Coups.Amen
Congrats on your great insights andvyour well deserved success!
Ditto!!! I read The Gateway Pundit every day and thoroughly enjoyed your articles on Ukraine that were posted there. I finally noticed that all of the articles I was so enjoying & looked forward to were written by you, then I thought you might have your own site…
So, here I am. Awesome articles on Ukraine & other topics as well, and the comments are great too.
P.S. You might consider using Substack.com as an outlet for your work. Author orientation set up by independent thinker/writers (Glenn Greenwald) for a wide base of readers. Easy and free to set up an author account and authors determine the free/paid subscriber options for their work. And the authors get more money per subscription than any other platform. Amazing support and reach.
Good suggestion. I’ll check it out. Thanks
LJ
The ZMan uses substack and subscribestar. He recommends both.
I would definitely subscribe to a Larrystack.
I’m already subscribed to 2 different ones (Bioclandestine & 2nd Smartest Guy in the World), & there are three others I read but haven’t subscribed to them (Political Moonshine has great FTX articles & covid coverage too, also Steve Kirsch & Dr. Ana for covid info), maybe someday…
️Mr. Johnson
Thank you for what you do! I encourage all my friends to
view your site. In addition to learning a lot, your posts also confirm many of my own theories. It’s good to have a standard to keep things straight !
Mr Johnson, thank you for what you (and Helmholtz Smith, if I may say so) are doing! Especially here in Germany, one is really grateful when one can read well-founded analyses and opinions that deviate from the mainstream propaganda. Please keep up the good work!
Best wishes to you, Sir, for the wonderful job that you’re doing.
I will continue to visit your blog wherever it is hosted!
As a free platform sticker-to, my best wishes.
Dear Sir,
Have you considered imposing a cap on all the commercial servers, say 10-20% below market value?
It seems to be a new fad getting some traction on the quality business channels of my State broadcaster.
Originated from some crazy cat-lady over in Europeanland I believe. Anyhow now backed by the Gee-7 so what the hell do I know, must work!
I’m off to my local beer store to try it out on a case of fancy Spanish Karlsborg !
I think I’ll impose a cap on 1000 hectares of prime land – at, say, 50% of my bank balance. That should work, right?
Hopefully you have good backup procedures and disaster recovery in place? Good luck with the server migration! Drop me an email if you want any help or advice.
Thanks. Much appreciated.
Wherever you go we roll with Larry J great articles keep it up. With love from the harmony city of Ilorin Nigeria.
I’m so honored that you take the time to read and comment.
The most important thing is the access to your articles, your access in pursuit of the truth is more valuable than money, because it is wealth that cannot be paid for. Thank you and all the best to you.
I used to look forward to your articles at the colonel’s site. Then you were gone and the colonel was gone in a different way. It didn’t take me long to find you here and now I come by every day.
Good luck with the new host. I will find you.
Love this site , love the work that Larry does and love the analysis presented
I have been reading every article you post and it’s a light in the midst of darkness in which we lived. Thanks you
Top shelf articles. Keep it up! I read you every day and greatly appreciate the valuable assessments you come up with.
Larry, you are a godsend to those of us who live in the midst of a perverse chaotic U.S. influenced world. Thank you so much for providing just enough intelligent analysis to keep us sane. Kudos to you sir.
Sonar21.com is my first read every morning right after breakfast. Great insights and very valuable information on what is going on in these crazy times. Never imagined I would live to see a global situation like this one. Greetings from tiny Luxembourg, Europe
Thank you, Larry.
It is a great service you provide and worth every minute I spend here reading and learning. I link to your blog all the time to help get this information and insights out to a broader audience.
Congratulations Larry on your success providing the public, anglophone especially, with a different angle and insight into today’s geopolitical quagmire. Opening people’s eyes about their own government’s perfidy in world and domestic affairs is an act of revered courage.
With the news breaking about Twitter & the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up this is a wise move.
Ok, so this is a comment that only I could write, Larry. But here goes. So, a few weeks back I go to the store to buy a thirty-Pack for my poker group (and golf group in New England, we play 50-cent, dollar limit) and the lottery was 2 billion. So I handed her a 20 and bought ten chances on 2 billion. Only gambling I ever did aside from poker. My fantasy until the number was drawn that if I won I’d call you, Andrei Martyanov and Andrei Resnikov (The Saker.IS, I couldn’t find his last name to spell it properly) to lunch. Larry, we’d have had to taken the Lear to the Pacific Coast to reach Martyanov. With my billion-dollars after tax winnings, I’d have given over a check to each of you for $30,000,000. And that’s probably cheap-skate. With more on the way if needed. Well, until they rounded us all up, heh. It would have been a grand time. Because look at the work you all do. I wouldn’ta fed it into some asshole charity/NGO or “candidates”, I’da fed it into you gents.
As is, I’m crushed with taxes in New England and insurance in Florida. And I didn’t win the lottery, heh. Pretty cool fantasy though, eh? Woulda been grrrrreat! Man, that woulda been great. I guess I’m apologizing. My cousin sez I have a vivid imagination.
@ Jim
I don’t think that there is a better plan than yours for spending lottery winnings. We are fortunate to have Larry and the two Andrei’s.
Andrei Raevsky is the Saker’s name.
Gotcha. I meant no disrespect.
Best wishes and support for you from SC. The articles, contacts and comments are an education.
Hello Larry,
Thank you for providing a credible, professional and informative website. I don’t follow mainstream media but do follow various alternative media sources. I read yours regularly and find it a breath of fresh air.
I live in Ireland (southern) and have no understanding of people carrying arms and am very curious. If you had the time, would you be able to write an explanation on this topic aimed at people from other countries where the idea of carrying a gun is out of the question.
Warm Regards,
Constance
I will do so.
Larry, I’ve been following you since the original No Quarter where we had a few laughs and a couple of arguments. I never missed any of your articles.
Thanks for your rare and brave reporting of the truth.
I am from Pakistan and I go through all your blogs, watch Andrei Martyanov, Dmitri Orlov, Gonzalo Lira, both Alexes from Greece and U.K. Brian Bertilec from Thailand. Watch the Duran.
You guys are terrific.
Also, I admire Vladimir Putin the best ruler of Russia after Catherine the Great.
I’m glad to see your admiration for President Putin.
Mssrs. Putin and Lavrov have been, and remain, exemplars of manner, consideration, tact and discretion, unlike – literally – every single “Western” politician I have observed in my 58 years on Earth.
I love your blog and read it every day. Thank you for all your work and I would like to support you. Unfortunately, I am trying to simplify my life and do not use your preferred methods of payment. Not a Luddite, just someone fed up with putting my financial information out there any more than I have to. I wish you had a PO box that I could send a money order or, image that, CASH!
Larry, I have been thinking about this as well. I don’t have a Paypal acct & even if I did, I would have cancelled it by now with all of their shenanigans. Also don’t have a Patreon acct. How about a mailing address or a PO box where I could send you a US money order?
Want to thank you for all that you do Larry. You provide expert commentary while being a salt of the earth likeable guy who it would be great to hang out with. Us little guys salute you sir!
Bill,
I’m humbled by the compliment. I’m so impressed by the quality of the comments on the site. Some very smart people.
You, Sir, do outstanding work in saving our country and the world from the liars wanting to destroy both. Can’t tell you how much I respect you for doing that. I share your info with my email news site from Coast to Coast and my social media on GAB and GETTR, both of which give you many reposts! Keep it up, Larry, you’re a hero for what’s left of a Free World! God bless!
I really appreciate your support.
It is true that the current format is inadequate. The content, however, is not. Perhaps a place like Locals would be a better tool. Thank you Larry!
the truth and rational thinking is never cheap and never goes “On Sale”.however it always worth the price.i”ll do what i can for you Larry.
Yes, this venue may be inadequate but the content is not. A format such as Locals may be better for interaction. In any case, to meet a community of honest and knowledgeable commentators under the guidance of Larry is not easy to find. Thank you Larry!
Had no idea server costs are so much. I’ll contribute some. I’m on fixed income and SS not kicked in yet, not old enough yet, but your blog is valuable news in a sea of disinformation.
You should advertise server costs on your donation request. I doubt I’m the only one ignorant of interweb costs. I actually thought blogs were free like most social media.
Something along the lines of
“Our Server costs are $x thousands a year with over a million views. If you like what I am writing I would welcome financial support in defraying the costs of this blog. You can donate here”
It doesn’t cost so much. Between 400 and 600 per month is bonkers!
It must be a tiny company, there are big providers way more economic.
“Changing Servers To Serve You Better”
I was hoping you you were going to tell us Biden and his ilk were gone…..
I’m wired to be a contrarian, so these alternative sites have always been more interesting to me than conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom isn’t always wrong, but they lie so much you can’t believe a thing they say anymore. I trust my gut and what I read on this and other pages seems to ring true.
We’ll find out if my gut was right or not sooner or later, but I still think we will be vindicated because what you guys say makes a lot of logical sense.
Larry,
I enjoy your writing every day, particularly your humor. POGO, – We have met the enemy (oil price cap?)!
When you were writing as an analyst, did you write dry or with the same humor? I would imagine if the latter, your analyses would more likely be read, but I could imagine it being frowned upon.
No. Humor was discouraged. Still, working on the inside, the irony was immense.
Good luck with the transition. I, too, will follow. Your insights have become an essential part of my daily reality check.
As a poor fellow, I plead the cause for non-cost content. The inability to pay is no reflection on the value I place on your views.
Did you consider some cloud VPS provider like https://my.tilaa.com/en/configure-vps ?
You could have very good solution for a fractoin of the price (~€50.5/month unlimited bandwith inclusive automatic backup evry 4 hours) though you would need some it-help to set it up and occasionaly for maintanance.
Disclamer: I’m recommending this company because I used their service a couple years ago but any similar would do.
Larry,
4800 to 7200 a year???!!! Is that Rubles? No? USD$$$???
Holy larceny Batman!
My ISP is MochaHost I’m paying $64 per year. Admittedly that’s one of the cheaper plans, but I have a Linux based server with a .com site. Haven’t done much with it since my old site files are stashed elsewhere and I have been too lazy/otherwise engaged to get them dusted off. I’ve used them since the mid 1990s.
Just a suggestion. You might want to check them out.
https://www.mochahost.com/webhosting.php
Love your work. Glad I found you, thanks to Alex and Alexander. God Bless.
Larry I would personally like a Tee shirt, Hat or a sweat shirt with your logo of the page if you happened to start selling them I would buy them and I am sure others would like them as well. Just an idea. Great job
I second the motion. I’d love a t- shirt or coffee mug with your logo.
Also, for support over $25 or some value, provide a logo window sticker. That way we the informed can recognize each other on the road.
I will get that done.
Larry, Please try to get the double mercerized t-shirts, they are the most comfortable. Baseball/trucker hats, mugs etc too. I’m in India but will definitely get someone over there to get them for me. I have a close friend in the IT sector. I will discuss your site with him and see if I can get you some good options over here. Please try to enumerate the comments. Most of your articles are getting over 200 comments regularly now. Keep up the good work Sir, this is one of the best blogs we have right now. Plus we are blessed with some really top quality commenters.
Its all your fault for being so damn brilliant.
LOL!
JFC, that is way too expensive. I design my own websites and the way I design them minimizes memory. This blog shouldn’t take up to much memory or bandwidth. From looking at the source code you are using WordPress which is very clunky and a huge memory spigot from technology legacy debt.
I pay $73 a year for all my websites to host on a shared server in Jacksonville, FL but I design the websites myself from native CSS, HTML, Javascript, and a little pHp. It is the database on pHp which is the memory hog on WordPress sites such as this one.
Long story short if you are paying more than $200 a year then you are getting ripped off.
Please open a substack account, Larry! Commentators ignored by the mainstream media are found there in big numbers.
Okay. Done. Let me know if it works.
https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/the-ukrainians-are-in-real-trouble?sd=pf
Enable CloudFlare to reduce the load and filter out bots.
It’s free and will reduce the load significantly.
Million hits (as large that sounds) is nothing, you can host that on a $30 vps.