Three beautiful ladies have joined the Slideshare server cluster.

Sushmita- Sushmita is a Dual Core, 1.8 GHZ machine with 3 Gigs of RAM. She was crowned Miss Universe in 1994 and started her career in modelling before moving on to Bollywood (thats where most Indian actresses come from these days). She is best known for her roles in Hindi blockbusters like ‘Biwi No1′ (1999) and ‘Main Hoon Na’ (2004). You can see her in action on Slideshare as Sushmita-ss.

Amisha- Amisha is also a Dual Core, 1.8 GHZ machine with 3 Gigs of RAM. She is best known for the super-hit movie that launched her in 2000, ‘Kaho Na Pyar Hai’. Her slideshare identity is Amisha-ss.

Vidya- Vidya’s vital stats are ditto- Dual Core, 1.8 GHZ machine with 3 Gigs of RAM. She is from Kerela (India’s southern-most state) and has two super hits to her credit- ‘Parineeta’ in 2005 & ‘Lagey Raho, Munna Bhai’ in 2006. She is currently one of Bollywood’s hottest stars. If you see Vidya-ss on the bottom of a slideshare page, you know its Vidya who is serving you.

For those who came in late, our movie crazy engineers have named the Slideshare servers after Bollywood (Indian movies) film actresses.

Please join me in welcoming Sushmita, Amisha & Vidya to the SlideShare family. They should add considerable firepower to our cluster.

We have been received a few emails about Slideshare full screen not working. Now, thanks to one of our users we learnt that the latest Firefox Alpha release (Firefox 3) is blocking Slideshare full screen. If you are having problems viewing full screen, please check your popup blockers. If there is any other browser/toolbar that is blocking Slideshare full screen, please add a comment here - this will help out other users.

Thanks and keep on sharing!

There’s a nice little writeup about slideshare in the amazon web services blog. We’ve been super-happy using Amazon S3 to host slideshows… it has saved us a ton of money AND time, which is a nice (and unusual) combination.

You might be aware from this earlier post, that our movie crazy engineers have named the Slideshare servers after Bollywood (Indian film industry) film actresses. I take this opportunity to welcome three more to the cluster. They are being added to our backend, as we open SlideShare to users from today. Meet them here -

Esha is a Pentium 4 machine with 2 Gigs of RAM. She is the daughter of the famous Bollywood actress Hema Malini and came into limelight with the release of the blockbuster Dhoom in 2004.

Katrina is a Celeron machine with 2 Gigs of RAM. She is a model turned actress and is more famous for being the girlfriend of Salman Khan– a famous Bollywood actor.

Udita is again a Celeron machine with 2 Gigs of RAM. She is also a model turned actress (as are most Indian actresses these days) and she burst on the scene with the movie Zeher.

Please join me in welcoming Esha, Katrina, and Udita to the SlideShare family. They should add considerable firepower to our cluster.

Our server cluster (which lives in “sunny” san francisco) is a friendly gaggle of celeron, pentium, and Xeon machines. The servers are all named after Bollywood actresses (Bollywood refers to the Indian movie industry with its center at Mumbai). At the bottom of each page on SlideShare, you can see the name of the web server that is responding to your request!

Ash is a Pentium 4 machine with 2 Gigs of RAM, and is used as a web server. She won Miss World in 1994, and is often referred to as the “Queen of Bollywood”.

Celina is a Celeron machine with 2 Gigs of RAM that also is our second web server. She was born in Kabul but raised in Calcutta, and was crowned Miss India in 2001.

Bipasha is another Celeron with 2 Gigs of RAM, responsible for all file conversions and processing. She is considered one of Bollywood’s most controvertial actresses.

Dia is a Xeon with 4 Gigs of RAM and RAID 1. She runs the database, and most recently starred in the Indian adaptation of the film “Fight Club”.

We haven’t found the need for a fifth machine, but there’s only one bollywood actress I know of whose name begins with E, so it will probably be named Esha!