As Blogger continues down the road to ever growing popularity, their issues with speed and performance will surely continue to rise unless something is done about it now. But we also have to remember that this is most common with the free service. Guess it shows that we get what we pay for.

Google (Profile, Products, Articles) is both adding new hardware and addressing an electricity-availability issue in order to improve performance, wrote Biz Stone, a Blogger official in an entry posted Thursday in the official Blogger team blog called Blogger Buzz  http://buzz.blogger.com).

“Performance is a huge priority for us and we’re adding a bunch of new machines right now to speed things up,” Stone wrote. “New machines are not an issue because here at Google we can add them quite smoothly as needed. The real issue is power — actual electricity, if you can believe it. So now we’re adding more power in addition to more machines.”