Survival survey of small and medium stationmaster

Absrtact: My website basically does not do, this year got a job. Mr. Dai from Jiangxi told reporters that he had bid farewell to the free webmaster life. Early last year, in the national SNS upsurge, Mr. Dai also founded a SNS website, but also quite popular. According to his

"My site is basically not done, I got a job this year." Mr. Dai from Jiangxi told reporters that he had said good-bye to the free webmaster life.

Early last year, in the national SNS upsurge, Mr. Dai also founded a SNS website, but also quite popular. According to him, there are tens of thousands of registrations a day. Behold, at the end of the year, the anti-Vice storm swept the country, personal website record and supervision more stringent.

Mr. Dai told reporters that his site's server from Shantou, Guangdong, moved to Jiangxi Ganzhou, and then moved to Jingdezhen, the last move to Nanchang. "Every time to stop a lot of days, the original development is very good, and then basically no flow and income." "This May, he finally decided to turn off the website and start looking for a job."

Mr. Dai is just a miniature of a large number of small and medium-sized stationmaster. Webmaster's home editor Qiu told reporters: "The current domestic small and medium-sized sites are under pressure, some sites closed or moved overseas." ”

A report from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) may support this fact. According to the 26th China Internet Development Statistics report released by CNNIC, the total number of Chinese domain names fell to 11.21 million in the first half of this year. CN's share of domain names dropped from 80% to 64.7%. Also, the number of websites dropped from 3.23 million in January to 2.79 million, down 440,000. This is the first time since 2006 statistics, the number of Chinese domain names has declined.

Although we can not blindly infer from the numbers, these disappearing sites are small and medium-sized sites, but one thing is very clear: in the current network supervision, the lack of social resources and the ability to resist the risk of small and medium-sized sites are often the first to be hit by the group.

In Qiu's view, the disappearance of the 440,000 site must be part of their own illegal and vulgar, but also they lead to so many sites are implicated. He thinks it's good to raise the bar and regulate access, but everyone is afraid of across.

Jing is a PhD student in Peking University, who spends her spare time helping her teachers to manage a scholarly website that focuses on new media. In order to weaken the official background of the school, the site is not anchored in the University of the server, and the students themselves to rent a server.

Last March, this small web site, which included news, forums and communities, was officially online. Initially, the site can also play the nature of Peking University students, leading a number of cutting-edge discussions. This site also gathered a lot of popularity, in a number of small and medium-sized stations belong to the "good mix."

However, Jing confidence was hit by successive shutdown events. June 13 this year, Jing found the site is not open. This time Jing immediately contacted the server provider for the previous experience of being shut down in April. The other party admits that they cut off the server, citing violations that were not deleted in time.

June 24, Jing's website again received notice of the deletion of the service provider-more than 60 list of deleted posts. Although some of the reasons for the deletion is difficult to understand, such as a post for the deletion of the reason is "for online diploma", but the content of the post is completely unrelated to the content. But in order to avoid again encounter shutdown, Jing still actively cooperate.

"We do not want to die with them, after all, our small site relies on server support, inexplicable shutdown, almost extinction." Jing told reporters.

Because the site belongs to the initial stage, basically rely on content to retain popularity. Once the encounter suddenly closed the station, resulting in users can not browse the site for a long time, the popularity loss is very large, several times down, Jing operation of the website has been struggling.

Now, Jing and her classmates have become "frightened", each post students have to carefully review, to ensure that no problems before the issue.

"In fact, this is the current domestic almost all the webmaster have encountered problems." "Webmaster's home editor Qiu told reporters that the beginning of last year's anti-Vice turmoil led to more and more stringent regulation, especially for small and medium-sized sites and personal sites, the deletion of the review requirements to let stationmaster Bell not 睱." Once it is not required, it will be closed.

"We have no right to censor the content of the website, only as a middleman in the network supervision department," said the correspondent, who contacted the Jing website to provide room access services. ”

Said the staff frankly, "small and medium-sized sites are usually part-time maintenance, and no one team 24-hour management, it is not possible to set aside a person to be responsible for the management of the deletion and contact supervision matters, so easy to appear because of the computer room or communication is not smooth, resulting in the shutdown. ”

In fact, in addition to a part of the active communication of the site clean up the post after the line, a large number of small and medium-sized stations after the shutdown will disappear forever.

Relocation Server 2008 Chen (alias) to do a film and television category of small Web site, in his words, each month income in the Thousand Yuan. The site in the middle of the shutdown stopped, the initial shutdown is relatively good recovery, by the end of 2009, Chen decided to completely move the server out of the mainland.

At the end of last year, a lot of small and medium film and television stations moved to Hong Kong or abroad. Chen told reporters that the reason to move out is very simple-you can not record.

At the end of last year, strict investigation began, unlicensed small and medium film and television sites can not be recorded in the mainland, and according to the white list system of the computer room, do not have access to the online file. "We can not get the radio and television network video license, so only moved away." "Chen said.

In fact, there are already a large number of intermediary agencies and service providers to provide overseas hosting services. "The cost of moving overseas is not high, the price and domestic is dozens of yuan." Chen said that for the recent mainland situation, service providers often make some special offers.

Reporter to buy the name of the server to contact a large domestic server supplier of customer service personnel, customer service staff immediately recommended to reporters in Hong Kong IDC (Internet Data Center), said that the territory does not have to fulfill the white list and record system, can in most cases to avoid being shut down.

The price of IDC in Hong Kong is slightly more expensive than the mainland, with the offer of this service provider as an example, the price of the 200M space server in Hong Kong is 258/12 months, the price of the continental server is 198/13 months. But customer service to reporters lobbying: "Buy a peace of mind and worry, the price can be ignored." Hong Kong IDC is currently the most cost-effective server products, the best sales. ”

However, in Chen's view, the site's "overseas Life" is not good, the biggest problem is a sharp decline in traffic. "One is because servers cause slow access abroad, the second is local DNS (domain name resolution) restrictions, some areas can be opened, some places are not access to." ”

A site moved to the British webmaster Xiao Wang also told reporters that after moving out of the site has no traffic, because can not afford a separate server only through the VPS (virtual Server) to maintain.

Chen said his site also had to endure "poor access to services" in Hong Kong.

Although Chen admits that his site has a copyright problem can not be resolved, but he believes that there are a large number of regular small and medium-sized stations because of the threshold to improve and moved out of the mainland, "Interactive class, News class, video class, medicine, music, blog class, all want such a certificate."

Rigorous IDC

Whether tired of the site responsible for the deletion of posts, or helpless to run away webmaster, all the mainland IDC room of the strict review is full of complaints. But a IDC computer room in charge told reporters that they do so entirely out of self-preservation.

According to the reporter understand, since the end of the "one-size-fits-all" regulation of the storm, telecom operators have to supervise the review of the responsibility to each room. If a computer room site many problems, the entire computer room will be stopped internet access.

Under pressure, IDC began to use a variety of stringent regulatory measures, the most widely used is the "white list" system-the default of all sites do not allow access, only through the audit into the white list to allow online.

According to an IDC access provider of materials, most of the network film and television, novels, music sites and not the "Internet Electronic Bulletin Service License" forums, chat rooms, message boards and other types of sites can not pass the "white list."

Some insiders told reporters, "The end of June this year, the third phase of the site registration system to complete the upgrade, the Department of the requirements of the computer room must be set up photo wall." After July, all over the new site in addition to meet the requirements of the review, but also must be responsible for photo-keeping files can be access. "The matter has not been officially confirmed by the authority."

"Photos actually exacerbated the personal site's removal or closure," Chen, "some people think more radical, feel that they have been unfairly treated, self-employed, network operators do not need to do so, why do they take photos to do the site; some people think they can do the site early to invest hundreds of thousand dollars, If the thousands of miles away to take photos face-to-face verification, the cost is too high, outweigh the gains. ”

According to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recently released the 26th China Internet Development Statistics report shows: As of June 2010, the number of Chinese websites, that is, the number of domain name registrars in China (including domestic and overseas access) to 2.79 million, down 13.7%. The report says this is in line with the declining trend of global Internet sites and the expiration of web hosting services, which is an important reason for the drop in the total number of sites.

For the number of domestic Internet sites to reduce the reason, webmaster's home editor Qiu that there are CN domain name policy swing and other factors. It is reported that cnnic in order to promote the CN domain name, once opened a personal 1 Yuan registered CN domain name. But after the nationwide crackdown on the internet, the policy was halted.

July 22, the reporter calls Cnnic advisory personal register CN domain name problem, customer service personnel said, the current registered CN domain name still requires organizational identity, individuals can not register temporarily.

"This makes the original use of the. cn Domain name station to give up, the original data compared with the existing data, reduce the characteristics of more obvious." "Qiu said. According to CNNIC statistics, as of June 2010, the total number of Chinese domain names fell to 11.21 million, of which. CN domain 7.25 million. CN's share of domain names dropped from 80% to 64.7%.

Now Chen is also pondering whether to move their own overseas sites closed: "Now less traffic, I have three sites on hand, or on the sidelines, there is no way to do anything else!" ”