THE Site for Jewelry Info & Tutorials

I can’t say enough about the Ganoksin website – this is a group of professional jewelers, gemologists and artisans that support the industry in all aspects – so jewelers teaching jewelers!

Recently on the Orchid Forum, Hanuman posted some really great facts about Ganoksin.

What does Ganoksin mean?
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     Ganoksin is a Thai word. In Thai "Ganok" means pure gold,
     "Sin" means art, and together they can be thought of as
     meaning 'The Art of Gold'.

 Born:
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 The Ganoksin Project was established 1995-1996 in Bangkok

 The Ganoksin Logo:
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    The logo was designed by Eran Shakine, an Israeli artist. It
     represents human culture and existence. It is almost a
     blending of the selves. It represents nature and the universe.
     You will find a stylized tree, human figure, fresh leaves, moon
     and the sun. It also might be looked as the connection
     between an individual and his culture.

 The Servers:
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 We are running two servers:

     1. Tethys is our main server running a 64-bit quad-core cpu,
     with 4 GB RAM.

     2. Soi11 is our test server running a Pentium 4 with 2.6 GHz
     cpu with 1 GB of RAM

 Bandwidth:
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 Our bandwidth is 3 Terabytes per DAY!!

 Backup:
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 We are practicing a DAILY OFFSITE (RAID) complete site backup!

 Intersting Statistics:
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 [] Total unique visitors per month: Over 310,000

 [] Total hits per month: Over 4,000,000

 [] Total number of webpages on Ganoksin: Over 220,000

 [] Total number of Technical Articles on Ganoksin: Over 900

 [] Average number of monthly outgoing emails: Over 15,300,000

 [] Average number of monthly incoming emails: Over 60,000

 [] Number of Orchid subscribers: Over 8,500 
   Distribution: 365 days per year

 [] Number of "Tips from the Jeweler's Bench" subscribers: Over
 45,000 Distribution: Monthly

 [] Number of Orchid blogs: 223

 [] Number of BenchTube jewelry making videos: 282

 [] Number of BenchTube monthly videos views: 40,000

 [] Number of daily average site searches: 3,500

 [] Ganoksin reaches 206 countries/territories

 [] Top Countries:
             United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India,
             Poland, Ireland, Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, France,
             Spain, Thailand, Italy, Israel and South Africe.

 Cost of using our services:
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 FREE

 How Can You Help the Ganoksin Project?
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 The Ganoksin Project goal is to build a strong pool of information,
 freely accessible, for the benefit of the trade and the general
 public. If you benefited from our services and agree with our
 mission here's what you can do to be part of our project.

 1. Make a small donation
 http://www.userblogs.ganoksin.com/donate/

    2. Advertise your business on Ganoksin
 http://www.userblogs.ganoksin.com/kosana

     For more information please contact us
     http://www.userblogs.ganoksin.com/faq/contact.php

       Download our Media Kit at:
    http://www.userblogs.ganoksin.com/file_s/Ganoksin_Media_Kit.pdf

    3. Tell newsgroup or your social networks friends about
   Ganoksin

     Do you have a newsgroup? Are you a newsgroup member?
     Do you belong to a social network? Then you can help us.
     Tell your friends about The Ganoksin Project!

 4. Invite a friend to join Orchid
 http://www.userblogs.ganoksin.com/invite.htm

 5. Link to us from your website
 http://www.userblogs.ganoksin.com/resources/about-linking.htm