I'm guessing Mark did the defrag when he converted, but I can ask him.

Pingomatic is all I have--although I used to also ping blogrolling.com and weblogs.com as a backup.

In terms of OTB being sluggish, I've been told that it's normal, with blogging software like Wordpress and Expression Engine, for the database to fragment over time. So what you'll want to do is log into your cpanel and then go into your MySQL database and click on the option to defragment your database.

Another thing that has slowed my blog down was listing too many blog pinging services in the Options menu. If you just limit it to Pingomatic, you should be ok.

Hope this helps you.

I wonder if the databases that archive any of the blog softwares aren’t really equipped for thousands and thousands of posts.

I think there may be something to that, Jim. I'm not sure if there's a fix for it, in that I want my archives to be searchable and whatnot.

I wonder if the databases that archive any of the blog softwares aren't really equipped for thousands and thousands of posts.

I do like the feature of adding categories as you are posting.