Watching my revenue crater due to IP changes, and hosting company policies.

Apparently making your AdSense earnings crater is as simple as changing your IP address for your site. Wheee!

For those interested, I used to have a shared VM and did some hosting for my sis in law’s WordPress instance. Which is fine, but in the last few days she was soliciting help from someone on Fiverr to add some things to her website, and they apparently tried to install a backdoor on her site – I believe unsuccessfully – but it was enough for me. That was all the incentive I needed to split the sites onto different VMs, and ensure nothing we did affected the other. But now my earnings are in the toity, since in doing this the …

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