I’ve just upgraded The Korean Blog List’s hosting, moving to a more powerful server.

Update: Tranfer is now complete.  I’ve fully tested the site, but if you notice any issues, please tell me about them. You can contact me via the Contact TKBL page, or the Contact Me page at Lemon Soju (one of my blogs).

I’ve just added step-by-step instructions on how to add the latest Korean blogs to YOUR blogger homepage. It’s very simple, and very cool.

Visit: Add the latest blogs to your Blogger blog
Want to see the lastest blogs appear on the sidebar of your blog? You and your readers will have instant access to the very latest Korea related English language blogs, direct from your blog.

The Korean Blog List Blog is now LIVE. All site announcements will be made here, and new blogs will be added automatically as they are added to the site.

You can also subscribe by RSS using Google Reader or any other feed reader. For Wordpress users, you can even add the feed to your sidebar (as I have done in my website) by using widgets such as Simply RSS Fetcher - I’ll post an article on how to do that in a few days time.

Since launching the new Korean Blog List site last week, I’ve been continuing work on new features.
 
One of the features I was most excited about adding was the ability to allow bloggers to see how many users clicked through to them from The Korean Blog List, and to show tables of the most popular blogs.
 
A few days ago I updated the code to start collecting the statistics required to do this. Unfortunately, given the amount of people using The Korean Blog List to visit blogs, the tracking and database updates put such a strain on my hosting server than my web host complained, and I’ve had to back-out the changes.
 
I’m not very happy about that - it’s a feature I’d really liked to have part of the site.
 
Now I’m faced with a decision: pull the feature completely (and some of the other cool features I had planned), or pay money for more powerful servers.  The latter wouldn’t be cheap, and certainly wouldn’t be covered by the income from advertising (that doesn’t even cover the current hosting costs, because not enough people click on the ads).
 
Work on other new features continues, but I’ll have to be very careful about what I add.