#1 June 16th, 2005 05:19 AM

SCSIgirl

Member

Logistics queston for Head

I webmaster a site in the Bay Area that mostly Bay Area residents respond to.  Some USA people monitor the site also,  but it is definately NOT International in scope.  I would assume you have a master site  Down Under.

Yet the portfolios roll at 12mid and 12n Pacific Daylight Time.  Hardly a world standard.  My forum posts and comments activate way too fast to make it 12k miles, get verified, and return 12K miles.  I would expect a 5 to 10 second delay.  Instead it happens within a second.

Do you bridge to another server(s) in the USA? Europe?  Did you have to arrange this or does your host handle it automatically?

If there are multiple hosts/servers,  what is the possibility of translating into the local vernacular?  It would make the German/French/Russian/Chinese portfolios easier to understand.

  -=SCSI=-

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wantingscott

Member

Re: Logistics queston for Head

SCSIgirl,

wow. first i find out that you're a dude,
now i find out that ISM doen't run on "majic and wishes"...

any more illusions you wanna wreck for me???

Scott

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Head

Administrator

Re: Logistics queston for Head

I webmaster a site in the Bay Area that mostly Bay Area residents respond to.  Some USA people monitor the site also,  but it is definately NOT International in scope.  I would assume you have a master site  Down Under.

Yet the portfolios roll at 12mid and 12n Pacific Daylight Time.  Hardly a world standard.  My forum posts and comments activate way too fast to make it 12k miles, get verified, and return 12K miles.  I would expect a 5 to 10 second delay.  Instead it happens within a second.

Do you bridge to another server(s) in the USA? Europe?  Did you have to arrange this or does your host handle it automatically?

If there are multiple hosts/servers,  what is the possibility of translating into the local vernacular?  It would make the German/French/Russian/Chinese portfolios easier to understand.

  -=SCSI=-

ISM runs on only one server, located in California thoiugh I can't remember where exactly.  It's in a hosting wharehouse.  We do that because more tan half our traffic goes to the USA so we make it quick for you guys, and besides, bandwidth is cheaper.

We've thought about multilingual versions of the site.  The problem is not in the initial transaltion, although that wouldn't be cheap, it's in the maintenance - translating the daily folio blurbs for e.g.  We had planned to at least make copies of the Join page in other languages but the problem then is, peeps will be writing to us in Croation and expecting a reply.

SCSIgirl

Member

Re: Logistics queston for Head

ISM runs on only one server, located in California thoiugh I can't remember where exactly.  It's in a hosting wharehouse.  We do that because more tan half our traffic goes to the USA so we make it quick for you guys, and besides, bandwidth is cheaper.

That really suprises me.  I didn't realize server time is cheaper in the USA, especially Cali.  We're more expensive on everything else.  The big push here is to go offshore which is why Silicon Valley is shriveling.

It also suprises me that the majority of your traffic is USA,  since the majority of your artists are Aussie.  I am aware that the San Francisco/Los Angeles corridor has the most heavy traffic communications lane in the world.  It would make me think you would get more California artists in the collection.  (btw - where are the Croatian artists?  The former Soviet Bloc is now the endless fountain of models.)

It explains why folios roll at midnight, our time, though. So, out of curiosity,  do you have delays when making adjustments to the site?

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Head

Administrator

Re: Logistics queston for Head

That really suprises me.  I didn't realize server time is cheaper in the USA, especially Cali.  We're more expensive on everything else.  The big push here is to go offshore which is why Silicon Valley is shriveling.

It also suprises me that the majority of your traffic is USA,  since the majority of your artists are Aussie.  I am aware that the San Francisco/Los Angeles corridor has the most heavy traffic communications lane in the world.  It would make me think you would get more California artists in the collection.  (btw - where are the Croatian artists?  The former Soviet Bloc is now the endless fountain of models.)

It explains why folios roll at midnight, our time, though. So, out of curiosity,  do you have delays when making adjustments to the site?

We do have quite a lot of cali artists, but also heaps more who never get around to submitting.  At least with the local girls we can lend them a camera, and I think it's less scary for them that they know who we are and where we are, as opposed to mailing their pics to "some guy on the internet".

As for the eastern bloc, I think it's mostly a porn trade run by pimps.  We get quite a few sample submissions but they generally smack of that.  I doubt the girls themselves have the net access or the knowledge of English to do it on their own, let alone a good camera and a CD burner.

gtrvox

Member

Re: Logistics queston for Head

I doubt the girls themselves have the net access or the knowledge of English to do it on their own, let alone a good camera and a CD burner.

Head, this smacks of the attitude I first encoutered when I moved out Czechoslovakia: an uncle kept on explaing to me how traffic lights work. In his mind it was impossible that we'd actually had cars and traffic lights in Prague.

I don't know about Croatia but in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, digital cameras and CD burners are commonplace. Broadband access is not as common as in North America (but then again, it's not as common in Australia, either: this report from 2003 puts Australia at 7% broadband penetration, as opposed to Canada's 35% http://www.idc.com.au/solutionscentre/t … eleaseid=6)

On the other hand, cell/mobile phone usage is extremely high; neither here nor there as far as IMS goes, but goes to show that technological growth is not badly stunted in so called Eastern Europe (Prague is 300 km's west of Vienna, btw)

I'll totally concede the point about the knowledge of English, though. Most people's English is pathetic considering the Iron Curtain's been down for over 15 years.

Cheers

GTR

wantingscott

Member

Re: Logistics queston for Head

Head, this smacks of the attitude I first encoutered when I moved out Czechoslovakia

GTR,
this forum is interesting because it is a worldwide perspective. but i have noticed something: in nyc there are two types of strip clubs- ones where the dancers seem to enjoy themselves and will sit and talk to you between sets and ones where the dancers seem so coerced and uncomfortable, it's disturbing, no more than disturbing, i feel pain for them. in the first instance, alot of ther dancers are either american midwest or Brazilian. in the second instance, the dancers always seem to be former soviet-bloc nations. and the ones in the second instance are the ones i read about in the NY Daily News about being closed down/Mob run.

i go to strip clubs on lunch hour sometimes to grab a beer, and there's one on 54 & Broadway where the dancers are so open for conversation. i dunno, it's just my personal observation.

Scott

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gtrvox

Member

Re: Logistics queston for Head

GTR,
this forum is interesting because it is a worldwide perspective. but i have noticed something: in nyc there are two types of strip clubs- ones where the dancers seem to enjoy themselves and will sit and talk to you between sets and ones where the dancers seem so coerced and uncomfortable, it's disturbing, no more than disturbing, i feel pain for them. in the first instance, alot of ther dancers are either american midwest or Brazilian. in the second instance, the dancers always seem to be former soviet-bloc nations. and the ones in the second instance are the ones i read about in the NY Daily News about being closed down/Mob run.

i go to strip clubs on lunch hour sometimes to grab a beer, and there's one on 54 & Broadway where the dancers are so open for conversation. i dunno, it's just my personal observation.

Scott

No doubt you're right. My point was about the availability of up-to-date technology or lack thereof

GTR

zille

Member

Re: Logistics queston for Head

ISM runs on only one server, located in California thoiugh I can't remember where exactly.  It's in a hosting warehouse.  We do that because more tan half our traffic goes to the USA so we make it quick for you guys, and besides, bandwidth is cheaper.

Now I'm having fantasies about going and shooting myself in the ISM server room!

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