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what is http://test2.cdrlabs.com

PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 3:58 pm
by dodecahedron
???

PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 4:22 pm
by dhc014
the same thing as http://www.cdrlabs.com

PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 4:26 pm
by David
Mabe they are testing a backup server for the site.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 4:28 pm
by dhc014
Actually, they point to slightly different IP's. What I want to know is some of the other tests :P

PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 4:37 pm
by David
There is a test3 also which requires a username and password so I'm leaving it well enough alone.

There are also several other test sites.

dhc014 Wrote:
Actually, they point to slightly different IP's. What I want to know is some of the other tests

Yep I forgot to ping before posting.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:49 pm
by aviationwiz
Right now I'm on the test3 server. J/K.

When you go there, in XP at least, when it asks for your log-in info. It says:

CDRLabs Statistics


Anyone know what that might be?

PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:54 pm
by Boone
damn snoops. I didn't even know about test3.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 11:16 pm
by Ian
Socheat can explain it better than me, but essentially he has a proxy running that balances the traffic between two IP's. Right now both IP's go to the same server, but if need be we could split the traffice between 2 or more hosts.

Yeah, test3 takes you to the stats page. That's for admins only though.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 7:33 am
by socheat
That's basically it. It does some other useful stuff too, but I won't bore you with the details. Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain... :wink:

Socheat

PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 4:43 pm
by MediumRare
It's actually a scheme to double the advertising revenue :wink:. For a while, if I went to the forum via cdrlabs main page, I ended up on test2... but clicking on my bookmark for the forum took me to www.... So I ended up with 2 popunder ads, not 1. :evil:

Hope you don't activate test4, test5, test6 etc. for the active forums to jack up the ads even more. :wink:

G

PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 5:23 pm
by Ian
MediumRare wrote:It's actually a scheme to double the advertising revenue :wink:. For a while, if I went to the forum via cdrlabs main page, I ended up on test2... but clicking on my bookmark for the forum took me to www.... So I ended up with 2 popunder ads, not 1. :evil:

Hope you don't activate test4, test5, test6 etc. for the active forums to jack up the ads even more. :wink:

G


Oh shush. You know that's not true.

Just be glad we don't sell your information like some websites do. Now that is evil. :evil:

PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 5:27 pm
by socheat
That's what you get for snooping around! :wink: Now we made 2 pennies instead of 1. :D

That wasn't the intended purpose, hopefully it still isn't happening. I've turned off pop-ups in my browser, so I haven't noticed any problems.

Socheat