Russia's economy nears collapse? from Pravda.Ru

[giovonni]

Greeting's to all,
Some inside news from a Russian online paper.

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/27-10-2008/106625-russian_economy-0

For those who ponder,
About this web site:
http://english.pravda.ru/about/
http://english.pravda.ru/partners/

related stories:
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1028/42/371852.htm
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/600/42/372095.htm

[Humble Janitor]

Not if Putin can save the economy with his martial arts skills.

[Kathleen]

Here's something interesting....I have an add-on to firefox that determines the ip address of a website. When I clicked on the above link this is what popped up:


"Note: Flagfox has determined that this webserver is in United States, however the address ends in ".ru" (Russian Federation). Flagfox locates servers using their IP addresses via an internal database and does not rely on TLD codes such as this. Servers need not be located in the origin nation of the site and thus this is not likely to be an error."


Something to ponder..... (and thanks for the addendum giovanni....also thx to bluestix and andy h.) Everyday I learn something new!!



Peace~ Kat

[bluestix]

Here's something interesting....I have an add-on to firefox that determines the ip address of a website. When I clicked on the above link this is what popped up:


"Note: Flagfox has determined that this webserver is in United States, however the address ends in ".ru" (Russian Federation). Flagfox locates servers using their IP addresses via an internal database and does not rely on TLD codes such as this. Servers need not be located in the origin nation of the site and thus this is not likely to be an error."


Something to ponder.....



Peace~ Kat




Why would they keep the servers for the english part of their site in Russia?

It makes more sense to keep them closer to the users.

A signal passing through Fiber Optics is fast but passing through 2000 routers is not.

[AndyH]

Why would they keep the servers for the english part of their site in Russia?

It makes more sense to keep them closer to the users.

A signal passing through Fiber Optics is fast but passing through 2000 routers is not.

Indeed, the site is hosted by servint.com in Northern Virginia.
It's quite the norm nowadays to see foreign sites hosted in the US or increasingly now in London Telehouse Docklands.