Writer's block, an owner's guide: Off topic: site5 hosting

Let’s face it: I’m not in the mood to write about writer’s block today, and I won’t. It’s been a challenging week and this feels like a well-earned play evening.

So instead of crafting anything about the science of writer’s block I’ll give my Inner Nerd a brief outing. He’s been wanting to report how we’re… how I’m finding my new hosting setup with Site5.com.

Things are so straightforward that I have nothing to report. I can’t even say that I like the server or love the server; it just sits there, quietly doing its work. I’ve been using Hyperspin’s monitoring service every 60 minutes and it currently reports 100% uptime (but you are welcome to see the latest results by clicking here; afternote: the single outage in mid-May was caused by me rearranging files, and not by a server failure.) As far as I can tell, my email is running smoothly. I can’t say what Site5’s support people are like because I have never had to call upon them.

For less than seven bucks a month, I can host five domains (as well as dozens of parked domains), I have my own IP address, and at my fingertips is a full range of mail and web and other net services (including stuff that my previous hosts charged extra for such as unlimited MySQL, unlimited mailing lists and responders and forwarding, error pages, a battery of logging and stats packages, and much more).

I had no trouble installing Movable Type: the only annoyance is that MT still can’t mail me notification of comments awaiting approval, and it looks like that’s a known problem with MT, so not Site5’s responsibility.

And let me say openly that they have a worthwhile referral program, so obviously I’m hoping that you will sign up at Site5.com and tell ‘em David at todayiwrite.com sent you - but the experiences and opinions I’m reporting here are my own and you can be darn sure that if they changed you would hear all about it.

This is the Inner Nerd returning you to your regularly scheduled writer’s block.

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