Update!
It’s another bi-decadely update! Decided to update wordpress, have been hugely disappointed with the speed of this site, least on the admin side. I run another site on this hosting and it runs along nicely so I don’t know what the trouble is. Maybe it was just the massive amount of spam comments the db was having to keep track of, i’ve cleared them out a bit now. Frankly that is the thing that puts me off blogging the most - the admin. Maybe its time to try something other than WP or find plugins that will deal with the comment issues.