Not a huge amount, just enough to verify that I own the account I’ve pointed them at.  I made a grand total of 62 pence.  I suspect that running a scam that involves repeatedly getting accounts verified in order to earn free money would quickly fall foul of some safeguard.  Google and PayPal have been around too long to fall for that.  Haven’t they?

The timed article (see previous post) popped out as expected.  Although it wasn’t there the first time I checked at 10am. Maybe WordPress needs prodding into action once the time has passed. As soon as I’d refreshed the page, the post appeared.  I’m impressed with that. I could write way in advance, building up a buffer of posts just waiting to spring into place.

The subswebhost at uklinux has been down intermittently during the day.  If my one subscriber hadn’t alerted me it would have gone unnoticed.  Not a lot you can do in a situation like that except grind your teeth and wait for the servers to come back up.  And look to see who else does hosting at a reasonable price with enough support to run WordPress… (Lots of them.)  To be fair they don’t have much downtime, but it would be nice if there was a flag on the site that said ‘Yes, we know it’s down, we’re working on it’.  At least you’d know they were aware of the problem…