Not quite the end of the line

Regular readers may know I have an ongoing problem, chiefly that this site keeps running out of bandwidth and I have to upgrade the account. Renewal time comes up in a couple of months. The combination of me reaching towards the end of my funds (I’m a self-funded student) and cutting Google Ads from the site and increasing readership means that this could potentially become a big money pit over the next year, so I’ve been looking for a more sustainable way of blogging. It looks like this is going to happen by slicing up the site.

Some ancient history entries are now being posted at Blogographos. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while anyway as I think Blogographos is a good idea and I’m happy if it helps drive traffic to the site.

Science entries will be on the i-Science blog, once the i-Science blog exists. It hasn’t yet for various reasons, one of them being my reluctance to push on with it. Fortunately someone else in the department is now the champion for it and there’s meeting about it next week.

Some archaeology and other historical stuff will also be off-site. HNN has a new group blog Revise and Dissent, and I’m putting posts up there. So far there’s (From an archaeological perspective) is vandalism of ancient sites a bad thing? and a review of History: A Very Short Introduction by John Arnold I’ll be archiving them on this site too about a week after they appear on HNN.

Archaeoastronomy entries will go up here at the same time as anywhere else they’re posted and various oddments will go up here like my take on Eurovision block voting. I’m also planning to reduce my frequency of posting, but I’ve been saying that to myself for a while.

In some ways it’s a shame but carrying on as before simply isn’t feasible. There are times when I haven’t posted something because I’ve been worried it could bring in more traffic than I can handle. For instance I’ve grossly underestimated interest in the Bosnian Pyramids. If there is going to be another pyramid post then it’ll be on Revise and Dissent, where the bandwidth is paid for by someone else.