12306 again before the mid-autumn day holiday comes to a standstill

Absrtact: The Ministry of Railways official designated purchase of ticket website 12306 in the mid-autumn day holiday before the arrival of another paralysis. The last paralysis occurred before the Spring Festival this year. 12306 Web site and it behind the winning technical support services side, in a query sound, and was pushed to the front of the public opinion.

The Ministry of Railways official designated ticket purchase website 12306 in the mid-autumn day holiday before the arrival of a "paralysis." The last "paralysis" occurred before the Spring Festival this year. 12306 Web site and it behind the winning technical support services side, in a query sound, and was pushed to the front of the public opinion.

According to the public information, the Ministry of Railways has just recently bid for the first phase of the "New Generation ticketing system", Tai Chi Shares (600100.SH) and shares (002368.SZ) were awarded 199 million yuan and 130 million yuan respectively. This means that the "new generation of ticket system," the first phase of the project bid the total amount of about 330 million yuan.

The new generation ticket system includes the Ministry of Railways 12306.cn and its background technical service construction, the first phase of the project includes: hardware and software equipment integration, computer room strong and weak electrical wiring system and monitoring system construction. According to the Ministry of Railways in early September, the "New generation of ticket system" construction will last 3 years, the first phase of the project will be completed by the end of this year.

Can a project as high as $ hundreds of millions of make 12306 more smooth and convenient?

Background technology has been questioned by the industry

Thanks to the mid-autumn day holiday, netizens are eager to buy tickets, which makes the railway ministry, which is mainly responsible for technical services supported by Tai Chi shares, paralyzed by the only designated ticketing website 12306.

Data show that 12306 of the daily average PV is 16.94 million, only for Jingdong mall 35 million daily average PV 1/2, Taobao 525 million daily average PV 1/30. But during the Spring Festival, 12306 of the site's daily visit peak has exceeded 1 billion, an increase of nearly 1000%.

It commentator Xiang (Weibo) believes that this sudden and rapid growth of users makes 12306 of the structure is difficult to pressure, and even more, according to China's purchase of tickets, at some time, 12306 per second will have tens of millions of PV access growth, which is very different from other electronic business sites.

In this case, how much improvement can the $199 million project bring?

Clove Garden CTO Feng Dahui told reporters that at present, 12306 Web site processing capacity of the backend is relatively inadequate, which makes a large number of users, the site is prone to paralysis.

A website technician said that the site was paralyzed mainly because of excessive HTTP requests caused by the server overload, and Taobao and other electronic sites will use distributed data processing technology, but 12306 is obviously not up to the technical requirements. In addition, in order to test the load capacity of Web servers, Taobao, Beijing-east and other electric dealers, will be regularly to promote the way to attract a large number of users.

And 12306 is the "queue" approach. The technical staff said that this may be just the technical team in the technical accumulation period, the use of a compromise temporary solution.

The Ministry of Railways has responded to the media by saying that 12306 is still in the process of upgrading and will continue to improve in the future.

And some people in the industry said that if the same with the current 12306 of the same background technology structure to build, the cost should not exceed 30 million yuan. Its architectural platform and front-end pages are inexpensive. Industry insiders speculate that 12306 uses Nginx language text, a lower version of the Struts server directive, and some improvements if the java-based solution is adopted.

However, if a technical framework, user experience has done very well, and the user volume of the railway ticket system, 330 million of the input is not much.

The industry personage said, train ticket ticket service system and electric Dealer's "second kill" activity is not exactly the same. Ticket system involves a large number of database query work, such as check time, seat, train and so on, require a large number of server response, and "second kill" do not operate back-end data. He pointed out that the high load of browsing the web is easier to do, but the load of the query is more difficult to handle.

It is understood that at present, Jing-dong, suning and other domestic mainstream of IT data services investment also in hundreds of millions of yuan, and in the big promotion, the face of technology more simple page load, there will be downtime.

Xiang said that in the IT software system input, the Ministry of Railways relative operators of tens of billions of investment has been very low, a high iron investment of 200 billion, a ticket system into 300 million, has long neglected the construction of information.

Taiji shares 199 million winning bid behind

September 14, Tai Chi shares issued a notice, said that it has won the Ministry of Railways "new generation of ticket system" Phase I Project of the public bidding, the winning amount of 199 million yuan. The bid accounted for 8.7% of the 2011 annual revenue of Taiji shares (2.284 billion yuan) and 1.78 times times its 2011 net profit (112 million).

Taiji shares why can get the Railway ministry "New Generation ticket system" tender?

A number of people in the industry expressed confusion. A person engaged in IT system development, said that the threshold of train ticket system is mainly in the background data service support and the pressure on the server, but obviously, Taiji shares in this respect the advantage is not strong.

Earnings showed that the main business of Tai Chi shares mainly divided into industry solutions, it advisory services, it product value-added services in three areas, its 2011-year revenue contribution of 1.46 billion, 135 million and 690 million yuan. From the market share, Tai Chi shares relative to IBM, Oracle and other manufacturers do not prevail.

However, the industry pointed out that Taiji shares but the background of the country's size, which makes its investment in government projects in a greater advantage.

Data show that the actual control of Taiji shares is SASAC, its wholly-owned subsidiary of China Electronics Technology Group Holdings 43.82% Tai Chi Stakes.

The government revenue occupies 34.22% of the total revenue of Taiji shares, which is the main source of business for Taiji shares, and its gross profit margin is the highest in all business subdivisions of Taiji shares, at 21.29%. And revenue ranked second public utilities business, accounted for 18.56% of Taiji shares revenue, gross margin is only 12.18%.

By virtue of the larger government business advantages, the central Committee directly under the authority of the Housing Service Center, the chief of the Department of Surveying and Mapping navigation, etc. are the main customers of Tai Chi shares, respectively, ranked 2011 Tai Chi shares of the top five customers 二、三位, contributing to the revenue accounted for 3.32% and 2.49%.

Tai Chi shares are closely linked to the Ministry of Railways.

Data show that 2010, the Ministry of Tai Chi shares in the customer revenue contribution ranked fifth, contribution revenue accounted for 2.49%. In 2011, in China Railway Letter Jin Fast (Beijing) Information Engineering Co., Ltd., China Railway Information Engineering Group Limited became the second to third purchasing supplier of Taiji shares, accounting for the latter 2.54% and 2.43% of the total annual purchase, the Ministry of Information Technology Center also from 2010 's fifth largest customers, Jumped into the Taiji shares of the number one revenue contributor customer.

This shows that the Ministry of Railways "new generation of ticket system" before the tender, Tai Chi shares and the Ministry of Railways maintained close ties, the successful bid of 199 million yuan is not without source.