went to both sites and compared the offered features and prices
on or about the same cost, site 5 offers better bandwidth
ixwebhousting offers more disk space
depends on the intended app, choices chould be different
if to consider guys accessing from china, guess bandwidth is the priority for me, while we could always scale up on the disk space and pay as it goes up

another point, site5 seems to be a newer kid on the block. i thought in this biz newer is actually better than older. (last time i checked was N years ago, the comparison helped me to update my knowledge: today the standard features offered by web host parties are so much and yet they are so inexpensive….tough to be in that biz i guess)

thus thanks for the recommendation, but between the two i may opt for site5. but i may do more comparisons

later