Dnspod: Young and frivolous, almost as a hacker

Website: http://www.DNSPod.com

Type: Free dual-line Domain name resolution Service website.

Stationmaster: Wu Hongshong, net Fame Aberdeen, 1985 born, Guangdong Zhanjiang people. In the second year of primary school, they contacted the computer and made and maintained multiple websites. Currently, more than 5,000 domain names are resolved using Dnspod.

It is a joke: the furthest distance in the world is not between the South Pole and the North Pole, but the distance between telecom and Netcom. The only solution is to use a dual-line server, but this will give users the trouble of choosing a server, and many big Web sites are deeply troubled. At this time Dnspod system appears, it provides free netcom Telecom intelligent DNS, support dual-line domain name resolution. The sound Tsai, who developed this system, is only 22 years old this year.

Young and frivolous, almost as a hacker

The voice of the family kept an old newspaper, that is September 14, 1998, "Computer newspaper", which has a "169 free service", the sound Tsai read this article, registered his first e-mail, and the newspaper saved to date. That year, the sound was only 13 years old.

At that time, most of the internet people in the chat room, voice Aberdeen is no exception, he saw a chat room someone bomb, someone can send small print, change the color of others to speak, but also to impersonate someone else to speak, even the whole chat room turned off, feel very novel. Later he realized that these were just simple JavaScript code.
When the network began to understand slightly, the voice of the "hacker" generated interest. Most of the hackers were research technology, and the sound-Young also like learning technology. But more often, he prefers to plant a Trojan horse on someone else's machine. He likes to see people panic when they look at the mouse on the screen, says Mr Tsai.
In the 2001, after the Sino-American Hacker War, the small age of the voice suddenly "feel tired", so do not intend to continue to do "hackers." That same year, he gave up the opportunity to read High school, chose an unknown secondary school-Zhanjiang finance and finance schools.

Invasion School website, a blessing in disguise

Just when the secondary school, because of some of the school management system dissatisfaction. The sound Tsai invaded the school's website and changed the page to a mess. That afternoon happened to be a computer class, the teacher opened the school site when the face swish white ... Later, the sound boy was called to the office.

Many things are often unexpected. Mr. Chen did not accuse the sound, but asked him how long he had studied the computer and what advice he had on the school's website. After the sound of the answer, the school server on the spot to fill the loophole. Later, teacher Chen often find voice to help deal with computer problems, but also let him responsible for the management of the school room and Network Center.

Miss Chen saw the voice of the website has a great enthusiasm, think is a can be made, so take out their own not high wages, hosted a server, for the voice to do the site. That is, at that time, sound Tsai began to do the real sense of the site.

After a few twists and turns, close all Web sites

Plan always keep up with the change, because the family is not good, there is a sister in school, in order to reduce the pressure of the family, in secondary school sophomore, the sound Aberdeen left the campus. At first he spent all day at home doing web sites. This period of time, he did a lot of websites, which in the ring tone ads and Google AdSense made a lot of money, he and his sister for several years of tuition are earned back. Finally even bought a house for home.

But the reality is always cruel, because the cheat stationmaster too many, the Google Advertisement Alliance began the massive quantity to seal the account number, many accounts were closed. At the same time, because China Mobile to SP carried out two confirmed policy, the jingle advertising is not too good to do.

Sound Aberdeen Premonition to personal website will die a large number of, so a hard-hearted, all of their sites are closed.

accidental, Dnspod was born

October 2005, Sound Tsai to the Black Horse Alliance in Beijing, do technical work. During that time, he was trained in all aspects of his abilities.

Black Horse Alliance ads are basically flash, and the server is a telecommunications line, Netcom user access is very slow. Because the common DNS does not realize intelligent parsing, so although in the Netcom also hosted the server, but simply can not use. The sound boy is very interested in solving the problem. After research, a DNS server that can realize intelligent resolution is built up.

This system initially does not have any management interface, modifies the parsing and so on the operation also needs to carry on to the server, the sound Tsai also did not think will develop it.

One day, VERYCD used a commercial CDN out of the problem, the Web page content was maliciously tampered with, a large number of users were affected. VERYCD Webmaster Dash Feel the commercial CDN in addition to the cost is too high, the security of data is not guaranteed, resulting in their own build CDN system idea. Because the most basic part of CDN system is the intelligent analysis of domain name, so he thought of the voice of the DNS resolution system.

So, the sound Tsai spent a week, make the foreground interface, this is the embryonic form of dnspod. Because stationmaster station of punk, 51.la of Arjunolic and so many big stationmaster is interested in this system, get encouragement of the sound seed to insist to continue to perfect it, so, Dnspod was born.

unexpected, rapid development of the website

Dnspod current major developers and Li Hao and Luhen Two people, are the voice of the Iron buddies. "Everyone has a common dream, is to open up a new world, so come together," said the voice. ”

Luhen proficient in the design of Css+div, responsible for the layout of the site. Li Hao Proficient in PHP development and data mining, mainly responsible for the site's API section and data analysis, and the voice of the main to do the overall framework of the development and programming, as well as the day-to-day maintenance of the system. Such a combination is very clear, we are very happy to cooperate.

Because the free, but also has VERYCD, Crsky, 51.la, PPStream, BTBBT and so on a large number of well-known websites after good evaluation, dnspod development very quickly. The number of registered in the website to 100, the sound Tsai sent an article as a souvenir. But it was not long before the number of registered people became 1000. The number of requests from the DNS system has soared from the previous hundreds of thousands of times a day to the present amount of billions of requests per day.

Dnspod the pace of development far more than the voice of the expectations, now he and his partners often think of the problem is how to do better, more stable.

understandably, developing value-added services

Speaking of the future development, sound Tsai is prepared to provide professional VIP service on the basis of free users. For example, some sites do not have specialized technical personnel, can pay for technical support, for some large web sites with many requests, set up a dedicated server, so as to ensure the stability of free services, but also to pay customers to win the benefits. It would be more reasonable to charge by the number of resolution requests per domain.

In fact, there are a lot of dnspod users are not satisfied with the existing services. For customers with high demand or special needs, it is possible to develop specific functions individually, of course, this is a fee-based service.

In addition, a set of fault monitoring and transfer function has been developed. Believe that a lot of stationmaster will have such experience: in inconvenient Internet, the server suddenly appeared the problem, then is scrambling to find a place to surf the internet, solve the trouble. With the function of fault monitoring and transfer, the program will automatically monitor the state of the server, when the server problems will take the initiative by SMS and other means of notification, and then the program will automatically remove the fault server IP from the DNS system, to ensure the normal access to the site.