Over the last few months I had been having issues with my web hosting provider because I was getting too much traffic. On several occasions I was getting so much I was bringing the server down. This weekend my site was down for several hours and it reached a point where I had to find a new place to host my website. If you are reading this, then you are at my new home at MediaTemple.net . They claim to be able to handle large spikes in traffic easily, so we will see if they can perform as advertised. The process of moving a website is never fun. I want to thank John Berns here in Bangkok who helped me move the database last night. My knowledge of the technical side of things ends at MySQL, and I couldn’t have made the move yesterday if it wasn’t for him. I’d also like to mention my photo hosting site Smugmug.com and how much I love them. If I had still been trying to host my own photos, this would have been an nightmare of epic proportions. Keeping my images on Smugmug means that I didn’t have to do a thing with any of the thousands of images or links I have on my blog. One some related news: I’ve a photo column I’ve been doing with the Washington Times Online . I have a new photo essay up on the recent protests in Thailand . You can also view my previous photo essay on visiting Fiji . Please leave a comment on the site if you like it

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