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Re: Blog Demographics 2015 Edition: If Life Were a Game, You Would Be Champions

BenSite5 — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:37:21 -0000

+1 on this, it is so nice to hear some nuance in a post.

Re: Don't Get Stuck Micro Engineering for Scale

BenSite5 — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 06:04:07 -0000

Wow deep, i like it :). Nice writeup!

Re: Ghost April Update: $411k Annual Revenue, Introducing the Public Revenue Dashboard

BenSite5 — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 05:15:28 -0000

Congrats, keep up the great work!

Re: Marriage Equality Declared a Fundamental, Constitutional Right: My Personal Reaction to Obergefell v. Hodges

BenSite5 — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 07:30:37 -0000

Absolutely beautiful post Josh, thanks for sharing!

Re: Sanders wants to increase the estate tax

BenSite5 — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 04:28:00 -0000

The government provides the platform this country runs on, and the infrastructure you use. If you want the "platform" of this country to become a place where inequality is so rampant it impedes future growth, where the quality of a quality education is even more unevenen, and so on then you would oppose this. But if you think the "platform" needs a little adjustment given the rise of vast amounts of inequality, and the growing difficulty of the lower and middle classes to get ahead over the course of their life then we need to add a little more taxes to the wealthy and use that money to bring back a level playing field.

Re: No, you are not ‘running late’, you are rude and selfish

BenSite5 — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 09:00:43 -0000

+1, I agree hugely!

Re: MSNBC Host Busted For Not Paying Her Fair Share

BenSite5 — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 21:02:21 -0000

All the media is shit, why get so angry and worked up over nonsense like this? The right jumps on the left, the left jumps on the right. America always loses. If we would all laugh a little more and be less nit picky we would all have better lives.

Re: MSNBC Host Busted For Not Paying Her Fair Share

BenSite5 — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:41:39 -0000

Why so mean? This could have easily been from loaning money to a family member who has cancer or some unknown quantity. Where is the human decency to assume they have a real issue, made a mistake, and are now working to fix it?

Re: Uber arrives in Fayetteville, legality unclear

BenSite5 — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 23:52:10 -0000

Uber is an app, all it does is connect drivers and passengers.

Re: The Freelancer Starter Kit

BenSite5 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:01:58 -0000

Ah gotcha, sorry I misunderstood :)

Re: The Freelancer Starter Kit

BenSite5 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:24:05 -0000

We haven't changed prices at all actually, the price per month just depends on the length of the contract and plan.

Re: The Freelancer Starter Kit

BenSite5 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:23:14 -0000

It starts costing money :)

Re: The Freelancer Starter Kit

BenSite5 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:22:50 -0000

Thanks for the kind words :)

We have some great stuff coming over the next couple years with Backstage and really expanding that out to help you too :)

Re: The Freelancer Starter Kit

BenSite5 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:21:33 -0000

Then it cost money :), free intro period to get you going :)

Re: The Freelancer Starter Kit

BenSite5 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:21:04 -0000

This is an offer from Clients From Hell, we are just the hosting part of it to help people boot up and get going :)

That said, I also have several high performance Cadillacs out back, would you like one for the low price of free trial :)?

Re: The Freelancer Starter Kit

BenSite5 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:20:17 -0000

Only the first zillion, then you have to find them ;D

Re: The Freelancer Starter Kit

BenSite5 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:19:58 -0000

Well I hope it is legit since we are giving out the hosting part :)

Re: Performance of the Best WordPress Hosting Companies Compared

BenSite5 — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 01:08:57 -0000

We also have 24/7 chat and email support for any issue, especially during an emergency as they can link you to the status updates if you forgot the forum link (or its in backstage next to the real time server status dashboard).

Phone is during US business hours but in the process of expanding to 24/7, and on any tickets you can ask for a manager or a member of management too,
Thanks, Ben

Re: Performance of the Best WordPress Hosting Companies Compared

BenSite5 — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 01:07:56 -0000

If you are hitting your Resource Point limits it is time to upgrade, or optimize. Simple as that. And what our team explains to customers. Shared hosting plans have a limit, and once you hit that limit you would need the next plan up, or a VPS. Every host has a limit, only some of them don't tell you about it and just start dropping traffic.

Small sites would never hit this limit, the only sites hitting this would be receiving thousands of page views a day. Otherwise the reason would be an incredibly intensive script or plugin configuration. Our team is always happy to recommend tools so you can dig into the cause.

The blacklisting thing was blogged in real time on our emergency forum, and Spamhaus apologized after 48 hours when they finally returned emails and fixed the bug in their system to cause it. Our CTO posted a lot of updates in that thread as well:

http://forums.site5.com/sho...

We take transparency very seriously and that is why we have such an open communication policy. Anytime there is more than 5 to 8 minutes of downtime we post to the emergency forum along with updates every 20 minutes or less on the emergency. Plus a post summary email with details if it is a specific service that has been down for more than an hour.

Let me know if you have any questions,
Thanks, Ben

Re: Performance of the Best WordPress Hosting Companies Compared

BenSite5 — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 04:14:21 -0000

The only reason we would ever tell someone they have to upgrade is if they need it :), I wish you the best of luck with your new host and if I can help in anyway please let me know!

Thanks, Ben
CEO, Site5.com

Re: Why I Switched My WordPress Web Host from WP Engine to Site5

BenSite5 — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:56:29 -0000

Thanks for the kind mention :)

Re: How the shutdown could make you sick

BenSite5 — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 15:05:33 -0000

The people, that is why we vote, run for office, donate time and money... and live in a democracy.

Re: —————— THIS POST SPONSORED BY SITE5 —————— ...

BenSite5 — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:17:45 -0000

Yep its is a buzz word, one that is used to describe that for 99.9% of fair use you just don't need to worry about space. Same as all you can eat buffet, or unlimited bandwidth on your ISP, or unlimited video watching at neflix.

I never recommend suspending reality when making purchasing decisions :)

Re: —————— THIS POST SPONSORED BY SITE5 —————— ...

BenSite5 — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:11:41 -0000

You should give it a try :), the key is the space is for your website, not your music/video library :)

I'm happy to answer any questions too if anyone has any.

Re: Performance of the Best WordPress Hosting Companies Compared

BenSite5 — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:33:05 -0000

Nice!! Have you tested their setup against something like CloudFlare and their "cdn" type setup?