Introduction and announcements!

Hi pingoat users.

First of all let me introduce myself. I am Tim Phelan and I have been making a living online sice mid 2004. I love this business and am totally involved with it.

It fascinates me and excites me. I am sure most of you feel the same.

When I saw that pingoat was for sale by Kailash I thought this would be an interesting site to look into. I had used pingoat myself for a few months and I knew Pingoat was used by many of the people I was in contact with online. I also realised that blogging is super popular and would remain that way for quite a while. More importantly it is fun. ;-)

So after emailing Kailash a few times we agreed on a price.

Congratulations to Kailash!!

He has done a great job in creating this site and building it up. I wish him all the luck in the world in the future. What a great start to a business career!

So what are we going to do now, Vladimir and I? Vladimir is my programmer and friend from Romania who never sleeps. :-) He lives in Ireland now and since I am Irish American we have a connection of sorts. He is a good guy and has some ideas about pingoat's future also. Together we have dicussed this and here are some directions pingoat will be going very soon:

1. We will have to stop all the free offsite API usage of the pingoat.com service.

2. We will keep the free onsite service of course. The pinging service will always be free at the website itself.

3. We will create a paid membership for the offline use of our service. This membership will have other services and bonuses. These will be announced later.

4. More than likely we will create an affiliate program where the members can actually make money.

These are the 4 basic points I wanted to make now.

I hope members will take a good look at what we offer for our membership and then decide. But the point here is we HAD to do this. Our main goal is to keep this site going. It is a great service! :-)

We would eventually have to get several dedicated servers and spend thousands of dollars a months to keep providing this free service.

This change can be a good thing for everyone. Wait to see what we will be able to put together for the membership and affiliate program. There will be other benefits and bonuses for the membership. Give us some time and please be patient.

Let me emphasize again, the service will remain free at the website. That will not change.

Thanks for reading this and using the terrific pingoat service.

Regards,
Tim