Typepad, the system and hosting service this blog is running on, will soon close down.

This week the Moon of Alabama blog will, hopefully, move onto a new blogging system and a new hosting service.

I have tried to prepare for the move to be as smooth as possible. However – experience says that any such move hardly ever happens without severe hick-ups.

This will take all the time I have and, until the move is done, there will be few if any new posts.

At some point I will close the comments on the old side and open them on the new one. I will then change the name-server entries to direct all requests for moonofalabama.org to the new physical server. This changeover will take some time to proliferate throughout the distributed global Domain Name Service (DNS).

If you are experiencing problems reaching Moon of Alabama just wait a while, maybe even a day, and try again.

Since Typepad announced its close down its service has deteriorated. Some blog functions have stopped working and the help desk has become unresponsive. It may therefore take some time to put the complete archives onto the new server. The last two or three weeks of posts and comments will, at first, likely be missing. I will try to correct that as soon as possible but will depend on Typepad to be able to do this.

I'll see you at the new site …