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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 provider with very cheap pay as you go pricing. Here's how to install ikiwiki
 there if you don't have a dedicated server.
 
-## Register for an account and set up a site.
+## 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. 
@@ -11,20 +11,20 @@ Mine is named `ikiwiki-test` and I used their DNS instead of getting my
 own, resulting in <http://ikiwiki-test.nfshost.com/>
 
 They gave me 2 cents free funding for signing up, which is enough to pay
-for 10 megabytes of hosting, or about a thousand typical page views at
-their current rates. $5 might be a good starting amount of money to put in
-your account.
+for 10 megabytes of bandwidth, or about a thousand typical page views, at
+their current rates. Plenty to decide if this is right for you. If it is,
+$5 might be a good starting amount of money to put in your account.
 
 ## ssh in and configure the environment
 
 ssh into their server using the ssh hostname and username displayed on
-the site's information page. For me this was
+the site's information page. For me this was:
 
        ssh joeyh_ikiwiki-test@ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net
-       cd $HOME
 
 Now set up .profile to run programs from ~/bin.
 
+       cd $HOME
        echo "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" > .profile
        . .profile
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ installation of some of them might fail.)
        $MAKE
        $MAKE install
 
-## Set up a wiki in the usual way.
+## Set up a wiki in the usual way
 
 With ikiwiki installed, you can follow the regular [[setup]] tutorial for
 settng up your wiki. Make sure to set `destdir` to `/home/htdocs/` so that
@@ -81,9 +81,14 @@ Here is an example of how I set up a wiki:
 ## Clean up
 
 Finally, you can save a _lot_ of disk space by cleaning up the ikiwiki
-tarball and .cpan directory.
+tarball and .cpan directory and a few other peices of cruft. Since you'll be
+charged one cent per month per megabyte, this is a quick way to save several
+dollars.
+
+rm -rf ~/ikiwiki*.tar.gz ~/.cpan ~/ikiwiki ~/man ~/lib/perl5/5.8.8
 
-rm -rf ~/ikiwiki*.tar.gz ~/.cpan
+That should cut things down to less than 4 megabytes. If you want to save
+even more space, delete unused perl modules from ~/lib/perl5
 
 ## Enjoy!