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

Posted on September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 by chrisa

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 …

No, I don’t do sponsored posts, guest writers, or commercial cross-promotions

Posted on May 25, 2022May 25, 2022 by chrisa

Since this is now about 90% about what I get in my inbox related to my website now, I wanted to take a quick moment while I’m working on new articles in the background to discuss this:

I don’t do sponsored posts, guest writers, or cross-promotion on this site

My site caters to other computer hobbyists and technology enthusiasts, or casual consumers of technology who are looking to educate themselves about technology, and are looking for an unbiased guide. I am not risking my reputation as a reviewer and someone who is frequently asked to weigh in on technology purchases for friends/acquaintances, to refer my readers to some online gambling or crypto promotion site.

If you own a small, independent, …