Russia's economy nears collapse? from Pravda.Ru

giovonni · 11-02-2008, 08:14 PM

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

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/econ...sian_economy-0

For those who ponder,
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http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1028/42/371852.htm
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/600/42/372095.htm

Humble Janitor · 11-02-2008, 08:43 PM

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

11-02-2008, 08:53 PM

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 · 11-02-2008, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.....

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 · 11-02-2008, 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bluestix

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.

11-02-2008, 08:14 PM	#1
giovonni Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: within my heart Posts: 1,209	Russia's economy nears collapse? from Pravda.Ru Greeting's to all, Some inside news from a Russian online paper. http://english.pravda.ru/russia/econ...sian_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 Last edited by giovonni; 11-02-2008 at 10:39 PM.

11-02-2008, 08:43 PM	#2
Humble Janitor Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 3,201	Re: Russia's economy nears collapse? from Pravda.Ru Not if Putin can save the economy with his martial arts skills.

11-02-2008, 08:53 PM	#3
Kathleen Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Russia's economy nears collapse? from Pravda.Ru 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 Last edited by Kathleen; 11-02-2008 at 11:14 PM. Reason: thanking op