Ham Radio – A contact sport

I’m moving to a new web hosting provider. While this should be good for N0HR.com in the long run, there will be some pain associated with the move. As you may know, there are a lot of moving parts to this little corner of the internet:

• scripts I’ve created to provide propagation information to the ham radio toolbar, Propfire for firefox and PropStats
• the ham radio blog
• Ham Radio Reviews product review system
• Forums
• Ham Radio Links

There’s a lot of complexity behind some of these – and moving them will not be trivial. I fully expect some (all) of these to flat out crash in the days to come. Let me apologize in advance for the inconvenience. Believe me, it pains me to do it.

Once the move has been made, you should see improved reliability & performance of the site and a new look/feel that should be easier to navigate. I’m not sure how long it will take to complete the move (hopefully it will be  less than a week for the bulk of the changes).

I first setup N0HR.com in 2001 and have been using ICDSoft since the beginning. This month, I’m moving to HostGator – a few more features and a better hosting rate drove the move. The site was ready for a new look anyway. My web based CRM & online issue tracking business, Adapt Data Solutions, has been using HostGator and we’ve been pleased with the results to-date. 

Thanks for bearing with me through this move.