Both these sites seem to be down today. Has anyone else found this problem?

Yes - ME.  I don't know what the problem is, but I have an idea what it might be.  I'm hoping the problem will clear up within a day or two.

I will explain what I believe is going on.  I was afraid of this - that due to the sanctions imposed on Russia there might be problems for both the Sawatdee board and my Gaybuttonthai board and that, at least for now, appears to be exactly what has happened.

I think most of you know Moses is Russian and lives in Russia.  He has his own server.  Some of you may remember that not very long ago my board was having all kinds of technical problems that even Moses was not able to repair because it was all being caused by the server side.  Moses was kind enough to offer to let my board be hosted on his own server.  We moved my board to his server.  It has been there ever since and has worked perfectly ever since.

That is why both boards are currently down.  Both boards on the same server.  If the sanctions have blocked access to his server and if he can't find a way around it, I don't know what will happen, but it doesn't look very good at the moment.

As for my board, I can't even move it to another server because I have no more access to it than any of you have right now.   I do make periodic backups, but that doesn't do any good if I can't access the software on the server itself. 

Right now it is wait and see.  I have no present intention of setting up a board on another server.  I would have to start the whole thing all over again and I'm not inclined to do that.  If Moses can figure out a way to get our boards working again, that would be great.  If he cannot, then I made no decisions just yet.  After all, I could be totally wrong about why our boards are down and Moses might be able to quickly get the problem fixed.  For all I know, the problem may have nothing to do with the sanctions and it just as easily could be that something blew out on his server.

So, for now I am in a wait-and-see mode.  All I can do is just hope my board is not another casualty of this war.

In the meantime, if I wish to post, as long as Michael permits me to post here, this is where I'll do my posting for the time being.  I plan to continue trying to keep everyone up to date and well informed as best as I can. 

4 minutes ago, Gaybutton said:

  For all I know, the problem may have nothing to do with the sanctions and it just as easily could be that something blew out on his server.

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In the meantime, if I wish to post, as long as Michael permits me to post here, this is where I'll do my posting for the time being.  

hope you are right that problem is technical , not political

as for posting, why Michael would object ?, you are as good member here as everybody else and I don't believe all three boards are competitors , all filling the same universe

I'm not sure the sanctions have anything to do with the situation; there have been numerous times in the past where Sawatdeenetwork.com has been down, only to magically reappear.

Although having 2 boards down simultaneously is unusual.

But it's too early to worry, imho.

Gaybutton, you are always welcome to post here regarding anything you wish. As I have said many times, your site was the first site I used to learn about Thailand and the bar scene here. I loved it and am forever grateful.

If you are unable to get the server back up and you need a new host, I'll happily provide that for you for free. I can't manage the updates unless they are Invision (I don't recall what you were using) but that is the only one I know well. However, happy to provide a home for you if you ever need it.

44 minutes ago, TotallyOz said:

If you are unable to get the server back up and you need a new host, I'll happily provide that for you for free.

Thank you very much.  I very much appreciate your entire post.  I hope it doesn't come to that, but if it does I will likely take you up on your offer if I decide to continue doing this.  One thing is for sure - I will never use a commercial web host server again.

I've been around for a very long time, even before this board or the Sawatdee board ever existed.  Some may remember the days of the Gay Pattaya and Dreaded Ned boards.  That's when I came into the picture.  I've been doing this ever since 300 baud was considered high speed, when a 20 meg hard drive was the top of high end hardware, and when the precursors of modern boards were run by what we used to refer to as sysops.  So, if it turns out I really have come to the end of the road, I hope it won't be because of something as useless as a war.  Here we are in 2022 and we still have wars?  Anyone care to guess where that appears on my "I Don't Get It" list?

If the problem is something that can be fixed, Moses will get it fixed.

Just have to wait and see.

 

Everything will be ok in a few hours. I'm on travel and missed invoice to pay. 

1 hour ago, Gaybutton said:

That is why both boards are currently down.  Both boards on the same server.  If the sanctions have blocked access to his server and if he can't find a way around it, I don't know what will happen, but it doesn't look very good at the moment.

SGT and GB are on different servers, when you got troubles in 2018 (or 2017?) with your board I bought server for it at the same hosting where SGT is located.  Both are located in Canada. They have shared billing, that why they got down both. 

Ah hah!  And here I was, thinking it was something much more dramatic.  And all this time I thought we were both on the same server.  I'm very glad all will be ok and back to normal soon.

As always, thank you Moses.  Without your help, my board would have disappeared long ago.

Sawatdee now back.

everything is working now, sorry for troubles