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Non-Tech : Starnet (SNMM)Online gaming, sexsites, lottery, Sportsbook -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Xenogenetic who wrote (4959)	8/19/1999 9:10:00 AM
From: Uncle Clive	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 8858

For half a second why don't you bulls ponder this question? What are the barriers to entry to this business? High rollers bet with known entities, ie the major players in Vegas. Until such time as the majors legitimize this business, it will remain small potatoes imo. Since all of you just love Gambling magazine, here is today's item. << Worst software of the year: STARNET Starnet has admitted that their systems are down, far too often. Jason King is well known for not telling the truth and for promising things he has no intention of delivering, it's pathological with him. His admissions do not reflect the true situation who is much worse: Starnet admits: "ICS is usually up (90%) and can usually take transactions" "Our game servers are usually up (95%)" Did you noticed the "usually" but then again, what can you expect from a company so heavily involved in hard pornography, a business where a lot of people are known to be very unreliable. "ICS" is the server that processes the credit cards. That means that every day (24 hours) this server alone is down for 2 hours and 24 minutes. That is over 75 hours every month! The above figures are just for the transaction and game servers. Starnet also admitted that the software itself crashes every 2 to 3 hours, and that they massively over billed clients. Their dispatcher is also down most of the time, and so the DNS and secure servers, when it's not the mail server or the databases. We don't know any worst software than this one. Here is Starnet's admission: From: jasonk@starnetc.com (Jason King) To: claude@e-casinos.com Subject: Hmm... Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 10:09:54 -0800 Message-ID: <000201be0755$28549900$0f8311d1@jasonk.starnetc.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal X-UIDL: dd4469d0109b414ff55400b5a875277c Hi Claude, I think I'm beginning to figure out what is wrong. While ICS does go down from time to time, this is not the main problem. ICS is usually up (90%) and can usually take transactions. Our game servers are usually up (95%) and can take transactions. The problem is with a combination of the ICS and the client software which causes the problem. People log in, try and deposit money. If there is ANY problem with the transaction(ICS may have crashed on the last transaction and is in the middle of rebooting itself, which it now does automatically) then the program hangs. The person should then be able to log off(will have to ALT-TAB out because of the freeze and then kill the game) and then log back in. However, due to the transaction problem the player is now locked out of the system for an unknown period of time(5 min. to 1 hour) which makes it appear that the system is down when it is really only the customer account. This COMPLETELY makes sense and explains why customer service was able to log on and you weren't the other night because your account had probably been locked up by a transaction which meant you couldn't log in. I've got my programmers looking at the problem now, but now that we've figured out the problem it will be much easier to solve it. I'll get back to you later today.... Jason King>> gamblingmagazine.com