by Rod Armstrong, April 7th, 2006 | No Comments
Rod here dropping in for a quick blurb about our latest contest, which I’m pretty excited about. We’ve dubbed it the Webmakers’ Contest, and it’s a tribute of sorts to webmasters, designers, coders, content-makers, etc., that currently make the internet great.
Such passionate people require ample fuel, so we’re proud to offer prize packs that are featuring a PSP portable entertainment system (for necessary diversion; it’s also a cool toy for media storage, et al., I’ve been told), and then cases of Bawls energy drinks (guarana-based fuel for late-night projects) and gift certificates to ThinkGeek for additional needs (books, gadgets, whathaveyou.) We’re also, naturally, giving away a free year of additional hosting to winners by way of the Unleashed plan (which is now very delicious with Backstage and MultiAdmin and unlimited websites).
The contest is open to new orders only, unfortunately, but if you have yet to join our ranks here, this should be a good added bonus.
Webmakers unite.
by Kevin Hazard, April 4th, 2006 | No Comments
After receiving several emails and messages from confused blog-faithfuls, we have decided that the jig is up… Matt’s most recent post was an April Fool’s Joke! I know what you are thinking: “That was so ‘out there’ that it couldn’t have been real to begin with,” but the joke wasn’t that we wanted you to believe what he wrote; we wanted to see if anyone saw the real message written in the post.
It was a short post, so I’ll copy it right here…
Testing Resumes in Certifying Keys
Through holes in security, I successfully appended new and productive resources into limited features of our lifeline servers. Just observing key environmental outcomes, nearly each descriptor appreciated. Your loads and terminal effects will exponentially heighten our processor’s effectiveness; you only use html and ‘data accumulation’ gradients on our ‘data operating nexus environment.’ Since internal testing exceeded 5 levels of varying effectiveness, servers in the study call users simply to operate metric external research simulators. Judging on killed experiments, samples are reinforced excepting ‘first user naturalization.’ Keeping everything equal, productivity increases through a set equation calculating resources every time.
Hmmm… That’s a peculiar title: Testing Resumes In Certifying Keys… he didn’t even mention “testing,” “certifying,” or “keys” in the article. What if we take the first letter from each word, though… “T R I C K”… And we have found the Ovaltine Secret Decoder Ring key to the entire post! Let’s go through and take out the first letter from every word and see what message we can extract… Got your Ring ready?
Deciphered…
Trick
This is an April Fools joke one day late. We hope you had a good one. Site5 loves its customers; jokes are fun. Keep it a secret.
No… no security holes, don’t wory about the ‘data operating nexus environment’ that I am not at liberty to discuss, and you may continue to use your ‘first user naturalization’ to your heart’s content. 
Have a great weekend and look out for some great “real” news from us within the next few days.
by Kevin Hazard, April 2nd, 2006 | 1 Comment
Check out the article that Matt posted regarding some of the more interesting developments he has been doing with the engineering team over the past few days since Backstage went live.
If you don’t understand the specifics of the post (which wouldn’t surprise me since he had to spend about 10 minutes explaining what exactly it meant in the grand scheme of things), either leave a comment here or on his blog post to bring up any areas that are at all confusing… I think the blog post was secondary to the actual work, so he did his best to sum up the progress while not distracting him from the overall process.
One of the best things about keeping up with Site5 is that you never know what you will see next. Enjoy the news!