babble-digest Tuesday, February 3 1998 Volume 01 : Number 179
In this issue:
Re: Best hosts - top performance
Site content and design issues
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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 18:39:42 +1100
From: Jonathan Oxer <jon@misweb.com>
Subject: Re: Best hosts - top performance
>How can I find out the real performance of this hosting servers,
the
>number of hops to the main backbone, and the real throughput they will
>give me once I pay? Almost none gives these technical details.
>Any suggestion?
Run traceroutes to their web servers and compare the hop count and time.
As
for the actual bandwidth they have available, it is pretty much impossible
to determine unless they (or their upstream providers) tell you.
regards,
mandroid
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Jonathan Oxer
Mission Multimedia +61 (0)3 9761 8244
28-32 Ridge Rd Kalorama Victoria 3766 Australia
http://www.misweb.com mailto:jon@misweb.com
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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 09:31:42 +0000
From: "Christian Kirschniak" <ck@dsein.com>
Subject: Site content and design issues
First thing: I don´t really want to restart the discussion about
gabocorp or
similar sites.
I just want to start a sort of discussion about what we are doing.
A friend of mine visited me yesterday (he is an IT-Student) and I showed
him
the gabocorp website (that is in deed one of the best things I ever saw
on
the web / with all its limitations).
He was impressed by the design and the animations of the site, but after
a
little surfing he was asking me: "where the hell is the informational
value
of the whole site". It is the opinion of a person thatis most of the
time
working through java source code. But he is one of the "real"
users of the
internet. (Here in Europe it is easy to classify two kinds of users, because
Internet Access is still very expensive).
His words were bashing in my ears. I am not really sure, if he is right
or
not. I am a very asthetically orientated person and I love really good
websites. (That is one of the reasons I am writing here) But: Don "really
professional" websites need all this Flash, Javascript (Rollovers and
other
stuff), Shockwave, Java, Active X... elements, If they only belong to design
purposes? Isn´t it more important to use this elements where they
really
belong to: to distribute information and to emphasis the message we
distribute.
This is not really my own opinion, because I love it to surprise my
customers with dynamic effects or similar stuff on "their" websites.
But I
think it is worth a thought..!
Christian Kirschniak
"Still smoking cigars and drinking wine..."
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