The Internet Map

2 out of 3 isn't bad!

It found warriorcats.com and winxclub.com, but missed on sainthelenaonline.org! The poor Saints deserve better than that.
 
SkribbelKat said:
2 out of 3 isn't bad!

It found warriorcats.com and winxclub.com, but missed on sainthelenaonline.org! The poor Saints deserve better than that.
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Oh..wrong URL for the sthelenaonline.org...though it still returns nothing!
 
hum hardforum is about 1/10th size of twitter, people use way too much twitter and facebook.
 
This made me pfft because of over-exaggeration and motive.
Hello. My name is Ruslan Enikeev. I am the author of The Internet map. This is my personal non-commercial project. It returns no money.

Many people want to see the Map and it leads to huge bills from the hosting company.

Please donate some money if you can. Without your help I will have to pay thousands of dollars and will have to close the Map.

You can do it now or later, after browsing the Map (click About, the button will be at the end of the text).

Sorry about that. Thank you.
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It will only cost thousands of $ if you're getting ripped off by a hosting a provider or webdevelopment company. It reminds me of when I put together this simple website that operated off of nginx with PostgreSQL and PHP that allowed you to browse a database of icecreams with different toppings, review and rate them. I found out that the impression the people at Corporate for this Company of this particular brand of icecream had the impression that webhosting costs thousands of dollars. They aren't a big company either (being a local regional icecream parlor), although they have a total of about 9 small icecream shops in the US across about 3 states. Where they got this incorrect impression from is from their webdevelopers who designed their website in ASPX and run their website off of Windows-based servers. To top it off, I single handedly coded a more efficient HTML and CSS design than their image-bloated and flash mixed website that was only a fraction of the total filesize and loaded almost instantly.

All in short, having almost 10 years of heavy experience in the webhosting industry and business myself, especially for this one guy hosting this map of the internet, you should never need to spend more than $150/mo tops unless you're very overgrown. If I recall correctly, HardForum runs on a server that is surprisingly not as high-specced and bills as high as you think. It's very cheap. This, and if you run your website using the right tools (nginx or lighttpd instead of Apache, and PostgreSQL instead of MySQL or Microsoft SQL, and Linux instead of Windows), you're set and will be able to handle a large amount of traffic without breaking a sweat... especially for something like this internet map where it is merely just loading images with a client-side JavaScript. It wouldn't even cost a lot just to have those images hosted off of Amazon's cloud (if you're worried about your own webserver resources that is).
 
EDIT: And the last thing. If he's so worried about racking up an over-exaggerated "thousands in webhosting bills" and this is a personal project, then perhaps he should release the entire project as open source on a place like github or Google Code or SourceForge or some SVN repository.
 
I am going to save him some money by not looking at it.:p
However, it would be good if other people could send him a message asking him for donations for all their contributions.:rolleyes:
 
hardocp.com is somewhere between twitter and wikipedia, orbiting the much larger anandtech.com along with xbitlabs.com, techreport.com, storagereview.com and semiaccurate.com. Inexplicably directly adjacent are live4fun.ru, 101holidays.co.uk, tropicalsky.co.uk, optcorp.com, notsoboringlife.com, and ledlightsorient.com. The tomshardware.com cluster is some distance to the south, being orbited by overclock.net, guru3d.com and tweaktown.com.
 
evilsofa said:
hardocp.com is somewhere between twitter and wikipedia, orbiting the much larger anandtech.com along with xbitlabs.com, techreport.com, storagereview.com and semiaccurate.com. Inexplicably directly adjacent are live4fun.ru, 101holidays.co.uk, tropicalsky.co.uk, optcorp.com, notsoboringlife.com, and ledlightsorient.com. The tomshardware.com cluster is some distance to the south, being orbited by overclock.net, guru3d.com and tweaktown.com.
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All of those other tech sites have the forums lumped into their base website numbers as well and HardOCP and HardForum are their own planets. :)
 
What is the Mass based on? Traffic, Users, Money, Most Data or Most Hated?:p
 
I like how 4chan is tiny but the creator put it smack between the largest sites on the web
 
SkribbelKat said:
Most hated would explain Facebook, but not Google. :p
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You underestimate the hatred Apple fans have toward Google since Jobs put on stone that going thermonuclear against the green robot was the only possible path to enlightment.
 
I think the map is cool. It looks like it groups referred sites together.

look at all the groupie planets surrounding Farcebook.

As for donations...... people do the stupidest shit. A granny bus monitor who was 'bullied' got $700,000 in donations, and retired from her shitty job.
 
sviola said:
You underestimate the hatred Apple fans have toward Google since Jobs put on stone that going thermonuclear against the green robot was the only possible path to enlightment.
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Thank goodness for Tim Cook too! Apple needed less crazy raving about that kinda thing. :eek:
 
Not just Apple fanboys. Android is proving far less open then it was billed as. Why do I have to turn to third parties to gain root level administrator access on my Google Nexus 7?
 
So if the dots are sites, does that mean the blackness everywhere and consuming everything is porn?
 
Where are traffic numbers derived from?

*thinks the map looks like EVE-O
*wonders if the red planets are nullsec
*looks at the red planets
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*suspicion confirmed
 
That's pretty neat. Interesting to see how the different TLDs are more or less grouped together too. Makes sense.
 
Tudz said:
So if the dots are sites, does that mean the blackness everywhere and consuming everything is porn?
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Nope. The ratio of porn to everything else is much, much higher. You would need at least 10 times as much blackness.
 
AliceCooper said:
Lol if you type in myspace it says "not found" :D.
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You need to type in myspace.com, not just myspace. It's out on the edge of the light blue region in the direction of wikipedia.

Some of the outliers are amusing. Wordpress is by far the most isolated large dot, and it is way out there to the west, totally isolated from everything else in a most glaring fashion.
 
evilsofa said:
You need to type in myspace.com, not just myspace. It's out on the edge of the light blue region in the direction of wikipedia.

Some of the outliers are amusing. Wordpress is by far the most isolated large dot, and it is way out there to the west, totally isolated from everything else in a most glaring fashion.
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Yeah kind of caught onto that lol. No edit button.
 
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