I use Paypal to send money to the people I use to write my content and build link and although the website interface is quite hard to navigate to find things the service itself seems to work ok.

That was until recently when my two main subscriptions to Easy Content Units and Hostgator for my webhosting failed. I retried them but neither was able to take the money and for ECU I had to start a new subscription.

I emailed Paypal support and although they could see that the subscriptions failed they could not tell me why.

Once they continued to fail I got this great response, bear in mind I have had this subscription going for nearly two years now:

Unfortunately, I can neither give you detailed information as to why our
security system has flagged your transaction nor am I able to override
or manually change the security settings. Please be assured that this is
a standard procedure for all transactions going through PayPal and it’s
carried out in accordance with our User Agreement.

I’m not really sure what the point of this post is as there is no alternative to Paypal so they can do what they like and we still have to use them.

I guess the lesson is keep an eye on your emails if you are on holiday as if you miss notifications of your subscriptions failing your hosting account could be suspending which would probably result in a loss of income from your websites not being accessible!

Paypal Woes is a post from: How I Got Rich

• …will let me pay by Paypal
• …doesn’t require a UK postal address
• …will let me do a whois opt-out on .co.uk
• …has fantastico and CPanel
• …doesn’t cost an arm and a leg

I’ve tried signing up with a few but due to my location I never get past the final stage for reasons related to my location.

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Cheers.

Looking for a UK host that… is a post from: How I Got Rich

After work and between the gym and my Thai class I wrote a few more bits of content about an older site which is finally climbing the Google tree and is at number three.  These were two 250ish word product reviews that I have done as separate Wordpress posts.

I’ve also decided to split apart my big site I am working on into two smaller big sites as the two areas are not that closely related.  After deciding this I spend some time looking for a UK based host I could host the site with as I want to move away from having all my sites on one server based in a different country to the one I am targeting.

After I’ve picked the host I will look for a WordPress theme that meets my needs and get cracking on the site.  I want it ranking well for at least one product before Easter so I’ve not got long to get something up.  Hopefully I will have a quiet weekend and get some work done.

One of my newish sites made its first sale netting £10 commission which was nice.  A few more of those this month will make me happy.

What I done did today is a post from: How I Got Rich