Live!

Finally finished setting up my site and basic wordpress installation! It took me awhile just to settle on the combination of hosting and domain registrar. In the end, I decided to go with Site5.com for the hosting and GoDaddy for domain. Site5 is currently (and has been) promoting 25% discount but it’s not hard to find the 26% discount if you look just a little bit harder. The promotion code I used to get the 26% discount was ‘BPJOBBRD’.

So what’s my impression of Site5 so far? Not bad at all actually! I was initially a little suspicious of their offer of unlimited bandwidth and storage as it’s usually a recipe for disaster as hosting companies will try to overcrowd their server with clients just to make up for the margin. However, the highest load I’ve seen so far on my server is a mere 1.5, very respectable considering they claim to have ‘cat /proc/cpuinfo’ reveals they have 8 cores on the machine.

[~]# uptime
02:23:45 up 35 days, 16:57,  1 user,  load average: 0.75, 0.74, 0.80