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I haven’t visited avinash’s blog in a long time.

eddy – each request opening a connection to the db? that’s awful for any application that opens network sockets. There is a hard limit on the number of open sockets. The common solution is a connection pool.

Any decent server accepting a high number of connections needs to be concurrent, that is a given… threading vs forking? Forking is very decent on POSIX systems with copy-on-write. I’m not sure about forking windows or windows server.

This isn’t intended as a display of geek macho-ness. take the remarks as coming from a friend to another friend. This might come in handy!

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This is Vishal. Let’s be on the same wavelength that afterall a website is a central focus of all business in the world of today. As Ashwin illustrated very well, WE CANNOT FAIL. Being a web analyst for almost 10 years now, one thing I’ve learnt is that a business/media website should be extremely accessible to the broad public, be in whatever commercial fields you are. If I were to comment on l’express website I would certify the followings;

L’express website is a great website because it has enormous amount of hits. People must not forget that we are here dealing with a highly praised media platform. In summary, the failure of L’express website is due to a wrong concept. We must not forget that in India we have loads of programmers who does website and trust me, YOU CAN FIND MUCH BETTER WEBSITE DEVELOPERS IN MAURITIUS. It may sound superficial, but trust me I’ve seen great web artists out there right in Mauritius who have been my student once. I don’t say am the best but at least I know what would be best and definitely what would be the fallback to bring L’express website back ontrack. DO NOT UNDERESIMATE THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL KNOWHOW… WHEN IT’S RIGHT TO YOUR DOORSTEP SMILING AT YOU!.

VC. For Web Analyst.

I brought AdSense into the picture to expand on the point I was making that Google derives more value from sites that it indexes more than it adds to them.

“Incidentally, I believe that using AdSense instead of developing your own advertisement engine is not a bad idea… money-wise. I may be wrong though.”

If you are in the business of advertising, you want to serve ads (just like Google does witth AdSense) not consume them (as you do when publishing AdSense banners).

Now, if you are a publisher (and not an advertiser) and want to monetize on the side, Google AdSense makes, err, sense.

Eddy.

But that is not what I was referring to (I didn’t mention AdSense.) I find it bizarre for L’Express to destroy the hundreds of pages it had previously. Now, if this has been done purposely, then why not? But (as you mentioned), this seems to have been done “unintentionally” (I would have used another word…) and this is bound to have a consequence on the website’s Google (and Yahoo! and Live etc.) ranking and, hence, its visibility as most people I know use search engines.

As I wrote above, personally, I would have kept the “old” (but still very valuable) pages around.

Incidentally, I believe that using AdSense instead of developing your own advertisement engine is not a bad idea… money-wise. I may be wrong though.