To still allow wp-hashcash to do it’s automagical version check, but to keep your site running, don’t change the value to something very large (999999999 as I suggested), but keep it in the range of a couple of days. The original period (86400) equals one day, so change it to something like 432000. That would be 5 days. Looking at feifei’s site, and their ping-graph, 5 days should be more than enough to re-establish a connection.
Jul 212007