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--- a/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn
@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@
+[[!meta date="2008-05-05 14:51:26 -0400"]]
+
 [NearlyFreeSpeech.net](http://NearlyFreeSpeech.net) is a shared hosting
 provider with very cheap pay as you go pricing. Here's how to install ikiwiki
 there if you don't have a dedicated server.
 
+Note that you can also follow these instructions, get your wiki set up on
+NearlyFreeSpeech, and then use the [[plugins/Amazon_S3]] plugin to inject
+the static web pages into Amazon S3. Then NearlyFreeSpeech will handle the
+CGI, and S3 will handle the web serving. This might be a more cost effective,
+scalable, or robust solution than using NearlyFreeSpeech alone.
+
 ## Register for an account and set up a site
 
 After you [get an account](https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/start.php),
 create a site using their web interface. 
 
 Mine is named `ikiwiki-test` and I used their DNS instead of getting my
-own, resulting in <http://ikiwiki-test.nfshost.com/>
+own, resulting in <http://ikiwiki-test.nfshost.com/>. (Not being kept up
+anymore.)
 
 They gave me 2 cents free funding for signing up, which is enough to pay
 for 10 megabytes of bandwidth, or about a thousand typical page views, at
@@ -36,14 +45,20 @@ Use `wget` to [[download]] the ikiwiki tarball. Then unpack it:
 
 ## Install perl modules
 
-Use CPAN to install the perl modules it uses into your home directory:
+As an optional step, you can use CPAN to install the perl modules ikiwiki
+uses into your home directory. This should not be necessary, mostly,
+because the system has most modules installed already.
+
+So, you might want to skip this step and come back to it later if ikiwiki
+doesn't work.
 
 	PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
+	
 	PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->force(install => "Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
 
 This will take a while. As long as the first command succeeds, ikiwiki will be
 usable. The second command adds extra modules that some plugins use, so it's
-ok if installation of some of them fails.
+ok if installation of some of them fail.
 
 ## Build and install ikiwiki
 
@@ -64,19 +79,19 @@ Here is an example of how I set up a wiki:
 
 	mkdir ~/wiki
 	cd ~/wiki
-	cp ~/ikiwiki/doc/ikiwiki.setup .
 	cp -r ~/ikiwiki/doc/examples/blog/* .
+	ikiwiki --dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup
 	nano ikiwiki.setup
 	# Set destdir to /home/htdocs
 	# Set srcdir to /home/private/wiki
-	# Set url to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/ , set cgiurl likewise
-	# Uncomment the `rcs => "git"` line, and the cgi and git
-	# post-update wrapper blocks.
-	# Set the cgi wrapper path to /home/htdocs/ikiwiki.cgi
-	# Set the git wrapper path to /home/private/wiki.git/hooks/post-update
+	# Set url to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/
+	# Set cgiurl to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/ikiwiki.cgi
+	# Uncomment the `rcs => "git"` line.
+	# Set the cgi_wrapper path to /home/htdocs/ikiwiki.cgi
+	# Set the git_wrapper path to /home/private/wiki.git/hooks/post-update
 	# Configure the rest to your liking and save the file.
 	ikiwiki-makerepo git . ../wiki.git
-	ikiwiki -setup ikiwiki.setup
+	ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup
 
 ## Clean up
 
@@ -87,7 +102,7 @@ dollars.
 
 rm -rf ~/ikiwiki*.tar.gz ~/.cpan ~/ikiwiki ~/man ~/lib/perl5/5.8.8
 
-That should cut things down to less than 4 megabytes. If you want to save
+That should cut things down to less than 2 megabytes. If you want to save
 even more space, delete unused perl modules from ~/lib/perl5
 
 ## Enjoy!