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#95752 - 2002-12-11 08:04 PM Re: Kixstart......or..... Kixtart ??
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Registered: 2000-04-28
Posts: 5152
Loc: Netherlands, EU
Dear Shawn,

About your remark

quote:

What doesn't make sense is that in the early days - kixtart.org (then: kixtart.to) was
hosted by another third-party ISP (anyone remember the day when we all got "kicked-off"
that ISP ? for allegedly "abusing" the system ?) ... so if he runs or works for a web-
hosting co. why was kixtart running on a thirdparty ISP ?



Starting this board as kixtart.to was the same year their organisation starts.
Possible that there was a deal with Ruud, when they want to use KiXtart as a part of
their company name. Possible the deal was they will host a specific KiXtart BBS.

At the beginning (see our statistic information) they workload wasn't so high like
now. For the ISP from that moment the load becomes too high and they were stopping
hosting this site.
Within about a week Henri starts hosting this BBS by their company. No limitations.
Acceptable response. For the old member was the catastrophe of summer 2000 passé.

This year Henri made a new upgrade of his server. For a better service and a better
response. At the moment the workload is just growing.

A benefit for Henri's organisation is, what can be the impact by hosting an inter-
national website. Hosting website looks to be one of their core business tasks.
Also as communication ADSL is for them the one.

greetings.
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#95753 - 2002-12-11 08:21 PM Re: Kixstart......or..... Kixtart ??
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Registered: 2000-04-28
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Loc: Netherlands, EU
Dear Shawn, Jens,

It were the old days. Computers on a central location with simple terminals.
With the introduction of client/server concepts those nice things doesn't have
a future people (= manager/salesmen) think. With the bomming internet the main-
frames return. Return for security, performance and capacity.

The benefits of VAX was the low price. The prices of mainframes were very high and
also an enormous amount of effort must put into it. In the early days to pay for
hardware and the sources were for free. Each location was creating his own
user's environment.

High prices: for one of those mainframe the monitor cost nearly 100.000$. At that
moment the price of a nice home.
Also in those days our organisation was buying a small computer from Data General
to run Office applications. The price was 1.000.000$. Now we can buy for less then
1.000$ a personal computer with the processor power 100 times that one.

Possible some of you knows Cray supercomputers. An organisation nearly dead, but
now they are working on computer with the speed of 25.000 Pentium IV computers
together. Concepts of Cray from the past with vectorizing code can solve pro-
blems which are impossible to do with parrallel computing.

greetings.
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#95754 - 2002-12-18 12:08 AM Re: Kixstart......or..... Kixtart ??
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Registered: 1999-05-07
Posts: 43
Loc: Haarlem, NH, Netherlands
Maybe this will answer some of the questions:

http://www.kixtart.org/board/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=14;t=000304

Henri

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