I've had a faucet but i decided to kill it. It cost quite a lot and earning back with advertisements is very difficult.
Also the hosting bills kept stacking up, so I decided to pull to plug
It doesn't surprise me at all. Faucets used to be "the thing" when bitcoin was in a bubble, and there were tons of people that were eager to try it out how
bitcoin is functioning w/o having to buy some. Now, that things have cooled down, and bitcoin is better explained on many places, the audience for
faucets is mostly made of faucet abusers, which obviously kills their point.
True, a lot of time and work comes around the corner by running a faucets and it's just not working anymore for bitcoin.
You get so little as a faucet user as well as being an faucet owner, you just don't earn enough to even hold the faucet online.