Stef, a Happiness Engineer with Jetpack, quickly responded to my support ticket. They have confirmed that my site is not commercial, and reclassified me as a personal site. This will allow me to continue viewing the Jetpack Stats without needing to pay for an upgraded commercial account. Thank you, Stef!
Normally, I don’t think it is fair to complain about “free” stuff. Jetpack does not force ads on my content, so, as far as I can tell, using their plug-in on WordPress for personal sites truly is free. I do, however, pay for a backup service they offer, so at least they get some money out of money.
Sadly, that backup plan is no longer available, and has been replaced by a more expensive offering which I would not be able to justify for a personal site like this. Still, better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it available.
I use the UpdraftPlus plugin to backup my retro site desertsagesolutions.com to my homelab ftp server. Since I’m using ftp it costs nothing.
I was “today years old” when I learned the term “home lab”. This means running an FTP server on your machine, and the plug in uploads backups to it, I believe? Until recently, we were using 5G Home Internet, and that protocol did not have a way to allow outside access like all my proviso cable modems and DSL connections did. We are under fiber now, and I asked for a static IP, so this would be possible. That is a good idea. I know my hosting provider backs up things, but 20 or so years ago, there was a fatal crash that killed their primary drives and the backups and I lost a bunch of stuff I didn’t have offline copies of. Since then, I have been very data paranoid. Thanks for commenting. I am going to look into this.