Server hosting company evaporates thousands of sites stuck in a bind

A server-hosting company suddenly evaporated in April this year, leaving thousands of of its sites in the company without a "landlord" overnight.

The company rented the computer room of Netcom, due to more than 2 million yuan in arrears to the Netcom company costs, after the incident, the company's hosting in the company's thousands of servers "temporary management." From May 14 onwards, a large number of Web site owners tried to move the server away. However, Netcom said that the "landlord" to the court, the removal of the server need to be negotiated. Yesterday, Netcom's response to the site is still "waiting for notice", the normal operation of these sites, it is difficult to protect.

Thousands of site relocation

The company known as Beijing Cable Network Communications Co., Ltd. (referred to as China cable company), was founded in May 2000, is an IDC service provider.

The so-called IDC service provider, is to provide server hosting services "landlord." Each site as a "tenant", the Web server is placed in the "landlord" of the room, by the "landlord" to provide day-to-day maintenance services.

Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/19058.html ">2003 year July, the cable company and Netcom Company signed IDC Room agreement, rented also Zhuang 200 square meters computer room, the lease period of 5 years.

The new room is located in the International Data Center, the center is one of the largest IDC room in Asia. By the beginning of this year, a large number of Web site owners and the company signed a protocol hosting server, Li is one of them.

Li set up an E-commerce website in the fall of 2006. A year later, the website profits more than 100,000 yuan monthly. "For the site, a stable server is the most critical." At this point, the company's network advertising attracted him.

By contacting, Li decided to relocate the Web server from other custodians to the company's room. One of the reasons for moving is to have a good environment, the second is because the "rent" is lower, "a year before the cost of hosting more than 7,000 yuan, and in the middle of a year only 4800 yuan."

Li this description of the Web server's new home: a hundreds of square meters of room, the room has 120 cabinets, a cabinet containing more than 20 servers, a server has one or more sites to settle, and some servers have hundreds of sites installed.

In this calculation, at least thousands of web site servers are hosted by the company.

Since then, Li's Web site management has become simple, whenever he intends to restart the server, to the company's full-time network call, the other side will help him complete the operation.

"A phone call is done, the company's people rarely go to the computer room." Li said, at that time he thought that everything would always be so simple.

Company evaporation Room Change the main

This May, Li's comfortable days are over.

May 14, Li website suddenly unable to log in, Li call the company's network maintenance phone, found unable to connect. "I felt that there might have been an accident at the company," he hurried to the International data center.

In front of the center, Li encountered 17 other representatives from various websites, whose web site also failed to log in.

In the center, they did not find the company's maintenance staff, here only netcom staff. Netcom staff told them that in early April, the company staff suddenly resigned, network maintenance personnel have already evacuated, the current computer room by Netcom in escrow.

A large number of Web site representatives want to be able to enter the computer room to maintain the network, but also the site said to move the server out, the choice of service providers.