Housekeeping

Just a little bit of housekeeping news about this blog.

Firstly, as I said awhile ago, this blog is now a team blog authored by many people. Please note when thanking _me_ that there’s a good chance I didn’t author the post you like 🙂

Secondly, You may have noticed the (now removed) large yellow box at the top of each page informing of the change of domain name. I did this as I felt that the site was no longer accurately represented by the domain ‘kevinleitch.co.uk’ – its written by more people than just me now. So, to reflect this, I have changed the domain name to leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk. kevinleitch.co.uk will still get you to this site but you’d be better using the new domain.

Thirdly, I have changed hosts for this site. The decision to do this was not taken lightly. My previous host is a good friend and he runs an excellent service. However, my bandwidth requirements were simply getting too large. This was brought home to me forcibly awhile ago when the site went down for the last day or so of the month as I ran out of bandwidth.

After Jenny McCarthy went on the Oprah show my traffic went through the roof. I was confronted with the distinct possibility of this site going down in the middle of the month. Just as an example, this site usually gets approx 4,000 unique visitors per day. After McCarthy went on the Oprah show, this figure more than doubled and I was pulling in over 8,000 unique visitors per day. The increase was people using Google/Yahoo/MSN etc to search for details about McCarthy and of course, Generation Rescue etc. I rank very well for these phrases (first page).

So, I had to move to a host that had a larger bandwidth allowance, which I have now done. the move was fairly painless I’m glad to say.

I was able to do this due to the generosity of people contributing money to me which allowed me to buy a hosting account with much more space, bandwidth etc. To these people I say a heartfelt ‘thank you’. This blog has been on the web for over 4 years now and I really didn’t want to have to retire it due to the fact it was very popular. Thanks to these people I won’t have to.

However, hosting is not a static purchase. I’ll need to renew the account every year. If you feel so inclined you can donate to keep the site alive by using the PayPal donation button in the top right of the page.

So, my blog is dead. Long live the team blog!