Legitimizing one's business or hobby even if it is not our main source of income is a vital endeavor
. No one starts a band or a small bakery hoping that their efforts will be mocked or slighted by people who may patronize them. Quaint and charming are one thing but unprofessional and lacking weight are a good way to ensure that whatever your endeavor is makes no money and can fall on the scrap heap of personal vanity projects that leave so many things looking like silly wastes of time. While failure is always a possibility when you take a risk and attempt to make your work more "real" the opposite never really trying is far worse.
One of the easiest and most cost effective way to legitimize your work or hobby is with a great website utilizing some professional web hosting. You can very easily find people that will both build and host a website for you cheaply. Cheap web hosting does not have to be low quality web hosting, in fact there is a lot of fantastic low cost options for building and presenting your website that will have little to no trouble managing whatever traffic you might drive towards your site. Business web hosting is the perfect way to present whatever project you are working on seriously and thoughtfully. Also with a web presence you can begin turning a profit or at least covering costs without much overhead. If you want to start a small vegan bakery, you can sell cookies and cupcakes with online orders. If you are looking to get your band's music out there, you can have tour info and mp3s right available through your web host provider. Seemingly any endeavor can become a legitimate side job simply by virtue of it having as presence on the web and the potential to make money.
Getting your work that you have so much passion for out there is always worthwhile. We are only as good as our ambition and if you feel like you are good at something or even like you could get better at something you owe it to yourself and yes even the world to make basic moves towards making those things available to others. Low cost web hosting is a great way to dip your proverbial toe into the real world. The very nature of the web makes this easy to promote and a synch to move yourself and your passion forward.