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Thank you, Jetpack Stef

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Sadly, that backup plan is no longer available, and has been replaced by a more expensive offering which I would not be able to justify for a personal site like this.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.

This is not a commercial site.

Today Jetpack Stats informed me I need to upgrade to a commercial plan for this site. For some reason, I have been flagged as a commercial site. Commercial sites can use it free if they have under 5000 visitors a month which, apparently, this humble blog exceeds. That alone is surprising, since I mostly post about a 1980s Radio Shack computer, and embedded C programming ;-)

I just wanted to assure my thousands of ‘bots that scan this site regularly that I:

  1. Have no ads on this site.
  2. Do not request donations.
  3. Do not have affiliate links.

About the closest I ever get to “commercial” is when I put an Amazon link to something ;-)

I thought I’d post this so the Jetpack Support folks have something to see when/if they check out my site to verify my claim.