Sawatdee Network Announcement

[Surfcrest]

Members,

When I originally put the Sawatdee Network up for sale is was for a few reasons. One, that the monthly expenses were too high in relation to our current traffic volume through the site. Two, that a technical overhaul was required to reduce the monthly expenses and to provide a platform that would keep existing members here and possibly attract future new members.

I received interest from three separate members (Thank you very much). I have decided to enter into a partnership agreement with the first member who expressed interest and he and I have been busy making preparations to upgrade the site, currently on phpBB software (The Board that isn't viewable by everyone) and WP Pro software (That is no longer functioning properly with it's integration with our phpBB software). A few years ago I purchased Vbulletin software for the site and I am proud to announce this conversion will happen very shortly.

I have created a new Forum called the Feedback Forum, for you the membership to provide any Comments, Questions, Concerns or to provide any praise for the what you like. I will move this into the Sawatdee Forum with this post, to allow comments.

We do anticipate the site being down for up to 48 hours while we make the final move. There may be some issues moving some members over, email issues or password issues that we can resolve between the two sites until everything is running fine at the new home and we can turn the lights off here.

I will leave this post open now for immediate comments, questions or concerns.

Surfcrest

The Membership is lead to the new vBulletin...Hallelujah

[Gaybutton]

the monthly expenses were too high

What are the expenses? The only expenses I have running my board are the annual fees for the host company and domain fees - totaling less than US $100 per year.

[Moses]

All expenses depend on server prower, configuration, SLA, licenses... That what you pay for year Google will use in 0.0001 sec

[cdnmatt]

Do we get to know who the partner is, or is that a hidden secret?

I really hope his name doesn't start with a "B".

[Moses]

Do we get to know who the partner is, or is that a hidden secret?

It's me.

[cdnmatt]

Ohhh, ok. Nice to meet you Moses.

[Moses]

Ohhh, ok. Nice to meet you Moses.

Thx. Just to clear - I'm not new here: I had account since 2009, but "at time of past transition (2013)" my account has been deleted. You can find me also at GB and GT forums under the same nickname.

I'm webmaster, webdesigner (less) and programmer (even more less). My English is quite poor, so I mostly prefer to keep silence

[Surfcrest]

Members,

Here is just a preview of what we are working on for you!





The new site will combine the articles from the front page with the Forum into one site, one interactive package. The site will offer many more features that you will see and hopefully comment on in the new Feedback Forum.

We will begin the process in the next 5 hours, after that time the site will be down while we transfer the conversion.

Surfcrest

[Surfcrest]

We will begin the process in the next 5 hours, after that time the site will be down while we transfer the conversion.

We will do this sometime this week, not tonight. I will announce when as soon as Moses and I arrange a specific time.

Surfcrest

[fountainhall]

Congratulations to Surfcrest and to Moses - and welcome!