Kaskus is the largest virtual community forum site of Indonesia. Kaskus born on November 6, 1999 by three young men from Indonesia who is continuing studies in Seattle, United States. Kaskus originally developed by Andrew, Ronald, and Budi was created to fulfill their coursework. Reload this initial concept is actually a site that is able to alleviate thirst Indonesian students going abroad through the hometown news of Indonesia. This site is currently managed by PT. Darta Media Indonesia. DARTA Media Indonesia. Its members, numbering more than 1.8 million members, not only from Indonesia but domiciled also spread to other countries. Forums Users generally come from among teenagers to adults.
Kaskus, which is an abbreviation of Kasak Kusuk, began as just a hobby from a small community that later evolved to the present. Kaskus is visited by at least 600,000 people, with the number exceeding 15 million pageviews per day. Until now Kaskus already has more than 140 million posts.
According to Alexa.com , in March 2010 Kaskus is ranked 325 and was ranked the world's sixth most visited site in Indonesia.
Kaskus Radio is an Internet Radio kaskus Indonesia under the auspices of the community. Kaskus radio commonly abbreviated as KR has more than 20 broadcasters. Radio plays this song for 24 hours also play songs from different languages, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and many more.
History
Kaskus created November 6, 1999 by three students from Indonesia in Seattle, United States. Kaskus originally intended as an informal forum of Indonesian students overseas. The name "kaskus" itself an abbreviation of the word "gossip."
In August 2005, PC Magazine Indonesia awarded Kaskus site as the best site and the largest community, and then Forums website was re-elected as the best choice PC Magazine readers in 2006.
On May 23, 2006 Kaskus management was forced to change the domain of. Com becomes. Ism, because the spread of the virus Brontok created with the purpose of attacking sites in Indonesia where Kaskus incoming target of attack.
Beginning April 2007, management Kaskus add two new servers to increase performance Kaskus site (Dell server).
In July 2008, Manager finally decided to operate Forums Forums servers in Indonesia. For this purpose Kaskus buy eight servers Dell PowerEdge 2950 and operated through a network of open IXP. As a result of this access Kaskus doubled and eventually the manager plans to add eight more servers so that the total of which will operate in the month of September is 16 servers.
DDOS attacks
Assault resulting threads that have been made had locked (lock).
On 16-17 May 2008, Kaskus DDoS attack using a technique (Distributed Denial of Service) by the individual that allegedly changed from. Reload this attack causes corrupt database so that administrators are forced to lock the existing threads.
The attacks allegedly associated with the event of vandalism (defacement) yogyafree site a few days earlier. An attacker who claimed himself as one member of the Forums also declaim a mocking tone in one part of the forum yogyafree. It is making some members yogyafree rage, and then turn Kaskus with DDoS attack. As a result, was forced to shut down the server administrator Kaskus sites.
Cyber war between the two communities was finally completed when the two signed a memorandum of the site administrator online to finish the dispute between them. Such messages show for several weeks at each site page.
Despite the damage inflicted by this attack quite heavy, administrators Forums Forums promises that would return to normal in July 2008, along with the launch of a new server in the building Cyber Kaskus, Jakarta. However, he also said that the data will be retrieved is data that was published before the year 2008, while the data created during the year 2008 can not be raised again.
UU ITE UU ITE
Prior to the Act enacted ITE, Forums have two controversial forum, BB17 and Fight Club. BB17 (BB17 (short open-aperture 17 years) is an adults only forum where users can share both pictures and adult stories. Meanwhile, the Fight Club is a forum dedicated as a place to argue that a truly free without any control. Often debated issues related to SARA. Insult to the tribe and religion were common.
After the enactment of ITE, Kaskus immediately closed BB17 UU ITE as opposed to the spread of pornographic material. Club changed its name to the Debate Club. Fight Club and Debate Club basically has the same function as a place for debate, it's just tightened controls on the Debate Club. Each new thread is created the user first censored by the moderator. If deemed feasible and discusses the SARA, the thread will be deleted.
To erase the negative image as a media Kaskus underground and porn sites, Forums alter appearance on August 17, 2008. Kaskus created a new look full of color. In addition, the Forums are also adding new features like blogs and Forums WAP.
KasPay
There is a new service from Kaskus site that provides online payment system called KasPay. These services have been launched on Friday, November 6, 2009, at the Anniversary Celebration-10 Kaskus at Poste, the east building, Kuningan, Jakarta. This transaction service can be used not only in the Forums but can be used on other sites that are affiliated with KasPay.
Kaspay will operate like the E-wallet that will be used as a tool for buying and selling transactions in all transactions online. The whole process KasPay transactions conducted through the transfer of some money, so the safest modes of fraud and forgery of credit card transactions and security are always assured with a confirmation via e-mail and transaction records.
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