We are currently moving our old website and blog to a hosted service provided by Google. I grew increasingly tired of administering the old site and keeping the blogging software up to date, not to mention the fact that I am no security guru and hosting our website and our blog on our personal file server made me somewhat nervous.

Those factors in conjunction with trying to limit our energy usage made the idea of switching to a hosted service even more appealing. I get to off-load the administration, which admittedly did give me a chance to learn new geeky stuff, and we no longer have to run our file server 24/7. We also get occasional power outages and this means that the blog, our site, and some of our other functions were not always available, now all that has changed.

Though I have just begun to start the transition, I believe I have most of the administrative “stuff” resolved and now I just need to move some of our old posts to the new blog, as well as migrate some of our ASD specific documentation to our new on-line file storage and everything should be much better.

Our new site can be found here with links to the blog and our online docs, which still needs to be populated, but all in all it has been a relatively painless transition. I will likely post more detailed information about the transition, its issues, and my thoughts after it has been up and running for awhile. I’ll likely comment on the online applications we are using from Google and how they compare to what we were using previously.

Update: March 11, 2009

If you are reading this we are now on our new (again) hosting service. I have updated the links on this page to reflect the changes.

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