Site Downtime and Rethinking the Blogroll

The past couple of months, my host has been moving the mySQL databases on their servers to dedicated mySQL servers. Tomorrow evening, my database will be moved. I'm glad about this because I have noticed that MT has been getting slower and slower lately when I do anything that accesses the database. The move will probably cause some downtime. After the move, I will have to make a change to the MT configuration file to get things working again. So if you try to access the site tomorrow evening and have problems, that's why.

Also, I'm thinking about rearranging my blogroll. Here's my problem...I'm tired of trying to keep up the reciprocal roll. I have felt this way for some time now.

Don't get me wrong -- I really appreciate it when people blogroll me, which is why I started a reciprocal roll in the first place. But it has gotten very long and difficult to keep up-to-date. Plus, I feel obligated to read every blog I blogroll and I just can't -- I don't have enough time.

So, I will move the reciprocal roll off the main page to another page and I will stop adding any additional blogs to that roll. I will probably have just one main blogroll. Some of the reciprocal links will be added to that roll (these will most likely be the ones I was linking to anyway before they linked back to me). I will probably get rid of some of the links on the main roll.

A few of the reciprocal links are for those who wrote me and asked to exchange links. Since I will no longer be updating the reciprocal roll, I will no longer exchange links with those who email asking me to do so.

I'm sorry about all this...I hope nobody takes this personally or gets their feelings hurt. If you choose to delink me because of this change, I will understand. I'm just trying to get my links (and reading list) back to a manageable level again.