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the biggest community in indonesia


Kaskus History
Kaskus is the site of Indonesia's largest virtual community forum. Kaskus was born on November 6, 2000 by three young men from Indonesia who currently studying in Seattle, the United States. This site is managed by PT. Darta Media Indonesia., which numbered more than 900,000, not only from Indonesia but domiciled also spread to other countries. Kaskus Users generally come from teenagers to adults.
Kaskus, which stands for enormous buzz, started from a hobby of a small community that later evolved to the present. Kaskus visited by at least 500,000 people, with a total exceeding 3.5 million page views daily.
According to Alexa.com, in August 2008 Kaskus is ranked 290 and was ranked the world's seventh most visited site in Indonesia.
Kaskus Radio is an Internet Radio kaskus Indonesia under the auspices of the community. Radio Kaskus is commonly abbreviated as KR has more than 20 broadcasters. Radio is playing the song for 24 hours is also playing the songs of various languages, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and many more.
History
In August 2005, PC Magazine Indonesia awarded Kaskus site as the best site and the largest community, then Kaskus 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 from. Com becomes. Us, because the spread of the virus Brontok created with the aim of attacking the sites of Indonesia where Kaskus entry in the target of attack.
Beginning April 2007, the management Kaskus add 2 new servers to improve site performance Kaskus (Dell server).
In July 2008, the manager finally decided to operate Kaskus Kaskus server 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 multiply and eventually the manager plans to add eight more servers so that the total of which will be operating in September is 16 servers.
DDOS attack
On 16-17 May 2008, Kaskus DDoS attack using a technique (Distributed Denial of Service) by the individual that allegedly came from YogyaFree community. This attack causes Kaskus corrupted database so that administrators are forced to lock the existing threads.
The attacks were allegedly associated with the destruction events (deface) YogyaFree site a few days earlier. An attacker who claimed himself as one member Kaskus also declaim a mocking tone in one part of the forum YogyaFree. This has led some members YogyaFree furious, and then back Kaskus with DDoS attacks. As a result, was forced to shut down the server administrator Kaskus Kaskus.
Cyber
​​war between the two communities was finally completed when the two signed a memorandum online site manager to finish disputes between them. Such messages to wirtte for several weeks on their respective pages.
Despite the damage inflicted by this attack is quite heavy, promising that Kaskus Kaskus administrator will 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 that will be raised back is data that was published prior to 2008, while the data created during the year 2008 not be recalled.
UU ITE
Before UU ITE enacted, Kaskus has two controversial forum, bb17 and Fight Club. Bb17 (short

 for open-aperture 17 years) is an adult forum where users can share both pictures and adult stories. Meanwhile, the Fight Club is a forum dedicated as a place to argue that truly free without controlled. Often debated issues related to SARA. Affront to common ethnic and religious.
After the enactment of UU ITE, bb17 Kaskus immediately shut because contrary to the Act ITE about the spread of pornographic material. Fight 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. Any new thread that created the user first censored by the moderator. If deemed feasible and discuss racial intolerance, then the thread will be deleted.
To erase the negative image as a media Kaskus underground [8] and porn sites, Kaskus change the appearance on August 17, 2008. Kaskus created a new look full of color. In addition, Kaskus also added new features like blogs and WAP Kaskus.


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