Josh Wardell’s MINI Cooper S

My hosting has been moved over to Site5.com. I’ve been reluctant to move from my previous host, whom I’ve been with for over five years; I was mostly happy with them, except they never upgraded their hosting plans to be more competitive. I’m moving from 50meg space/2.5gig bandwidth to 3gig/50gig for almost the same price. Since starting the MINI blog, my bandwidth has been steadily increasing, last month hitting over 2TB. (The total data in all of my website is 16MB, so that’s impressive!) So I really needed to make a jump.

I followed closely Ian’s and Gabe’s server movements to PowWeb and InMotion, and wanted to switch with them. But those hosts do not give you your own IP address and do not give you unix SSH shell access, two things I did not want to give up. More recently I had recommendations for Site5 by GMINI, Rich, and Mark, and Site5 offers all the features I am looking for and more. So I made the jump.

The last two days were a nightmare getting things set up and running, especially the database for this blog. Unfortunately, site5’s support was terrible, taking hours for each reply and ultimately not solving any of the issues I asked. But I just figured things out for myself as I usually do and hopefully everything is working correctly now. Let me know if you witness and problems or performance differences.