Industry Jargon#
Industry jargon refers to alternative vocabulary or abbreviations used by service providers and industries to avoid being filtered out by keyword matching.
Du Fu, Poisonous Woman#
"Du Fu" means independent server.
White Girlfriend#
"White pick" (referring to getting something for free).
Corn#
Domain name.
Oneman#
An IDC service provider operated by only one person, who may run away at any time.
Little Chicken#
VPS, virtual server, refers to small servers virtualized from independent servers.
Mother Chicken#
Refers to independent servers. Since VPS are all virtualized from independent servers (which actually means an independent server has opened a bunch of virtual machines), small VPS are called "little chickens," and the independent server that produces small VPS is called "mother chicken."
Super Beast#
Overselling, refers to selling more shares than the server can handle. For example, it is normal for an independent server to virtualize 10 VPS, but some merchants, in order to maximize profits, will virtualize 20 or more VPS for sale.
Family Heirloom#
Refers to some high-cost-performance and rare servers, often accompanied by extremely high premiums.
Landing Chicken / Transit Chicken / NAT Chicken#
Landing chicken refers to a server with poor network quality but good unlocking capabilities.
Transit chicken generally refers to servers with excellent lines, or transit servers in coastal cities of China. They are essentially the same.
NAT chicken refers to shared IPv4 servers. The usage involves an additional layer of port forwarding. The NAT mode of the virtual machine, the public IP address of the operator (NAT internet access).
PS:
A transit server refers to an intermediate server that forwards user requests to the target server. When using a VPS, users often access it through a transit server. For example, if a user in China has set up a website on a VPS but foreign users cannot access it directly due to network restrictions, the user can rent a VPS abroad as a transit server and connect it to the domestic VPS to enable access. In this process, the user's request first reaches the transit server, which then forwards the request to the domestic VPS, and finally returns the response to the user. The transit server can also add some extra security and privacy protection measures to safeguard user data and privacy.
Landing server refers to the actual server running the VPS. When a user purchases a VPS, they are actually buying a segment of virtual resources (CPU, memory, disk space, bandwidth, etc.) that run on an actual physical server. This physical server is the landing server. When users access the VPS, they are actually operating on a virtual machine running on the landing server. The performance and stability of the landing server are crucial for the effectiveness of using the VPS, and users should pay attention to the configuration of the landing server and the hosting provider's maintenance and management of the landing server.
MJJ#
Little chicken refers to VPS, mother chicken refers to independent servers, and those who buy them are called "chicken buyers," abbreviated as MJJ, which also implies "no jiji."
Stone Disk, Diamond Disk#
Refers to hard drives with extremely low IO; diamond disk (0~30M/S) has lower IO than stone disk (30~100M/S).
Three Mao, Five Mao#
Super cheap servers sold by Russian server provider ruvds, with "Three Mao" named for its price of 30 rubles (about 2.7 yuan) and being a Russian server.
CF#
Abbreviation for Cloudflare, a US company, CDN service provider, offering many free services, considered a conscience of the industry, highly praised by MJJ for its powerful and free features.
CFT#
AWS Amazon Cloud's permanently free CDN service, offering 1TB of outbound traffic per month for free (traffic from VPS to CFT is not charged, while CFT to your computer counts against the free 1TB limit), but exceeding 1TB will incur charges. Building a website that gets hit can cost as much as a night in a hotel, and binding your own card may lead to international debt collection, so MJJ only dares to use it for monthly exploitation.
Turtle Shell / Turtle / Wang Ba
Oracle Cloud provides free VPS with high configuration, fast speed, and good lines, requiring credit card registration, with a very high failure rate. Even if registration is successful, accounts can easily be banned. Countless MJJ flock to it, as the configuration page resembles a turtle shell, and its strict risk control makes registration very difficult, confirming its hard shell characteristic.#
Backstab#
Refers to price reductions or the release of a better product with a higher cost-performance ratio than what you bought. For example, if I bought something at full price, and shortly after, the merchant's product goes on sale.
New Boli, Old Boli#
Boli: Refers to the VPS from the service provider gcorelabs.com in the Novosibirsk data center.
Old Boli configuration: 1c 512m 10G 1TB 500mbps, 88 rubles/month.
New Boli configuration: 1c 512m 10G 500G 100mbps.
Fatty / Thin Monkey / Ma Gan#
Fatty: Due to MJJ mistakenly identifying the RN boss as the VirMach boss, "fatty" was once used to refer to the VirMach boss.
Thin Monkey / Ma Gan: After experienced MJJ uncovered the real FB/INS/LINKEDIN/TWITTER accounts of the VirMach boss, it was found that he is relatively thin, and now MJJ usually refers to the VirMach boss as "thin monkey" or "ma gan."
There's not much to say about this company; just a little research into its dark history reveals everything.
Bandwagon (搬瓦工), Spartan (斯巴达), Diao Ji (鸡总), 50% Cloud, Green Cloud (宝强云，绿帽云，颜色云)#
Bandwagon: A supplier that provides high-quality CN2 line servers. Around 2014-2015, its annual payment options of $3.99, $4.99, and $5.99 for OpenVZ small servers became widely known for their low prices, but it gradually declined and became a classic family heirloom.
Spartanhost: Known for its cheap high-defense VPS lines, with decent CPU and disk performance. After the line revision, it switched to the cera4837 line, with a 10G port, and its speed is only second to GIA. However, due to the instability of its 4837 line and undersea cable faults, the experience was poor, leading MJJ to jokingly call it "Sparta."
Wikihost: According to MJJ, the boss is named Diao Ji, and since he sells servers, he is referred to as "Chicken General."
V.ps: Often offers 50% off annual payments (three years, five years, etc.), leading MJJ to jokingly call it "50% Cloud."
Greencloud: Has many nicknames just because its name contains the word "green," and MJJ jokingly refers to it as "Jia Nailiang Cloud," showcasing MJJ's naming ability.
Abbreviations: az, pr, od, a1, a1p, pp, tg, gv, ion, cc, rn#
az: Microsoft Azure;
pr: Garbage service provider Pacificrack;
od: Microsoft Onedrive;
a1: Microsoft Office 365 A1 subscription;
a1p: Microsoft Office 365 A1P subscription;
pp: Payment method PayPal;
tg: Instant messaging software Telegram;
gv: Google Voice, provides free US phone numbers, can send SMS and make calls to US/Canada numbers for free, can receive verification codes. It is a VoIP service and cannot be used without internet (and must be able to access Google's network). Anonymous registration for some services. It's relatively difficult to apply for; I was fortunate to successfully choose a preferred number when it wasn't strict.
ion: Service provider ion Cloud;
cc: Cloudcone;
rn: Racknerd.
Routine Cloud, Conscience Cloud, Cool Heart Cloud#
Routine Cloud: Refers to Alibaba Cloud, which has deep routines in activities, discounts, and pricing (opposite of Conscience Cloud, which is too routine).
Conscience Cloud: Refers to Tencent Cloud, which has significant promotional efforts. (One year, Tencent Cloud offered 2000 yuan in no-threshold vouchers, and later also gave some small vouchers, which was very generous.)
Cool Heart Cloud: Refers to Tencent Cloud, which, after attracting a large number of MJJ with significant promotional efforts, began to massively ban accounts involved in mining and proxy behavior.
v2, Suan Suan, Suan Suan Milk, hy (Hysteria)#
v2: v2ray;
Suan Suan: ss, referring to shadowsocks;
Suan Suan Milk: ssr, referring to shadowsocksR.
hy: Hysteria is a feature-rich network tool optimized for harsh network environments (bilateral acceleration), such as satellite networks, crowded public Wi-Fi, and connecting to foreign servers in China. Based on a modified version of the QUIC protocol.
3 Euro (3O), 5 Euro (5O)#
3O: Refers to the 3 Euro independent server family heirloom from the service provider online.net.
5O: OneProvider OP 5O independent server.
Four Great Kings (CC, RN, VIR, PR)#
These are four VPS suppliers, mainly focusing on US VPS, considered "hearses," with much controversy but low prices.
CC refers to Cloudcone; I also use their VPS, and it seems there are some overselling issues. The MULTACOM data center sometimes fluctuates during peak hours and can drop connections.
RN is Racknerd, relatively cheap, but performance is not very high.
VIR is VirMach, very cheap, with good Japanese VPS lines, said to be a happy chicken from China Unicom, but the boss often deletes accounts and scams, with poor reputation and no refunds for banned accounts. Avoid hearses.
PR is PacificRack, deletes servers and accounts without refunds. Abuses customers, universally condemned.
President / Wild Horse / Sword Emperor / 127#
President / Wild Horse: Refers to a person or team skilled in black hat SEO techniques, originating from someone named "President" or "Wild Horse" who uses external rules to demand protection fees from gray and black websites for placing their gambling and adult ads; if not paid, they will fake walls to make your site inaccessible and lower its ranking (essentially living off high walls).
Sword Emperor: A homophone for "censoring yellow," refers to self-organized groups that maintain the physical and mental health of teenagers by identifying pornographic works. They conduct high-traffic visits that lead to server or wallet overloads, abandoning the persecution of teenagers. It is said that a pornographic broadcaster used Alibaba OSS, incurring traffic costs as high as 0.75r/GB, and when his pornographic broadcast paid but did not allow viewing, MJJ angrily deployed dozens (or possibly hundreds) of high-bandwidth servers to brush traffic for a long time, ultimately being forced to delete files, but according to Alibaba Cloud's billing, it would cost at least six figures (in short, using scripts to brush traffic).
127: 127.0.0.1, your website cannot be opened.
PT / Box#
PT: (Private Tracker) downloading is actually a form of BT downloading, with two obvious differences from BT downloading: private small-scale downloads and traffic statistics. PT downloading is a small-scale BT download that disables DHT and selectively controls the number of users. Thus, within a limited scope, the downloading users can generally reach their bandwidth limits.
Box: Here, "box" includes but is not limited to boxes provided by professional box operators, VPS and independent servers provided by IDC service providers, and other network service devices that can be used for PT downloading and uploading. (MJJ usually likes to use hz, netcup, cheap independent servers, and high-bandwidth servers.)
Hearse#
It literally means that if you buy a VPS or other services, how long you can actually use it depends on the seller's integrity. You might buy it today and not be able to use it tomorrow, or the service provider might run away, making it uncertain how long you can use what you bought (depending on luck). It often refers to those new businesses that have not been around for long or suddenly appear.
North Shore#
The harmonized version of the record, as there is keyword filtering there, some words may not be able to be typed and will turn into two stars (after all, Chinese characters are the most beautiful language in the world, hee hee~).
DMCA#
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a US copyright law that states that online service providers can avoid copyright infringement liability by promptly removing infringing content upon receiving a notice from the copyright owner or their designated agent. If the copyright owner believes their copyrighted work has been infringed without consent, they must provide the following information to AMD.
DD#
Refers to changing the system, using a non-platform-provided method to install the new system you need.
NF / Naifei:#
Netflix, a foreign video platform.
YouTube#
YouTube, which cannot be accessed from within the mainland, is often used by many people to connect to a VPS and their local computer to play high-definition videos on YouTube to test the VPS's line and quality.
aff#
Referral link; ordering VPS through these links allows the person sharing the link to receive some rewards.
eu.org#
Provides free domain names, application without thresholds, but approval is random; with good luck, it can take three to five days, and longer can take two to three months, with no guarantee of success.
Peak Hours#
Peak hours are from 7 PM to 12 AM Beijing time, causing extremely high packet loss and latency when accessing foreign websites. This is due to the insufficient capacity of the switches responsible for international lines in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and telecom restrictions on ordinary users' priority, artificially creating congestion.
4837#
Refers to the lines that pass through nodes with AS number 4837 in the last one or two hops before returning to the country and the first one or two hops abroad. Due to the relatively low load on the lines, performance is better than ordinary lines, and the price is cheaper than CN2 GIA/9929 lines, making it a popular choice in recent years.
CN2 GIA#
GIA stands for Global Internet Access, and CN2 GIA is a high-end product among CN2 lines, with the highest level in CN2, running entirely through high-speed nodes 59.43 for both outbound and return trips (CN2 AS4809). CN2 GIA lines are generally stable, fast, and have low packet loss rates.
CMI#
China Mobile International Company, located in Hong Kong, offers premium lines from Mobile.
9929/10099#
Unicom's premium lines, with numbers derived from Unicom's ASN, while ordinary users' lines are AS4837.
CN2#
Divided into CN2 GT and GIA, it is a premium line from China Telecom. Ordinary users are on 163 (unrelated to NetEase). GT is the return CN2, outbound is 163, and GIA is bidirectional CN2, exclusive to the wealthy. If routing traces show IPs starting with 59.43, it indicates passing through CN2 lines. "Three-network CN2" means that other operators also use telecom nodes to go out.
163#
Traditional 163 backbone network, the most common and ordinary line, also called ChinaNet (AS4134), which has no optimization for telecom users, generally using this type of carrying network (entirely through 202.97 nodes). Because many people use it, the line is not optimized, so during peak hours, there can be line congestion and high packet loss rates.
Discussion on VPS Lines#
The outbound and return paths are not always the same. The quality from Telecom to Singapore is extremely poor, basically all routing through the US. Telecom to Japan's NTT also experiences issues during the day, and during peak hours, it can be as bad as a broken undersea fiber, with packet loss rates reaching 50%! Mobile pulls to Asian VPS, Unicom pulls to Europe, and Telecom pulls to the West Coast of the US, which I feel is the fastest. I have hardly used Mobile, so I am only speculating.
- You don't need to guess; Mobile's invincible level in Southeast Asia can punch 163 and kick 4837. If it's HK, it can even compete with GIA.
- As for Telecom, it actually performs well running to Tokyo's IIJ, with fast speeds and low latency.
- Additionally, Tianhai Ren (Hu Guo) uses 9929 to run to Vir's IIJ line, which is from SoftBank, but GC's IIJ is not, whether in Osaka or Tokyo.
- Now (not considering the situation of SoftBank being attacked), SoftBank still serves all three networks, with Mobile, Unicom, and Telecom all able to run, and the latency to Japan is also excellent.
- The difference between Mobile running to SoftBank and IIJ is minimal, with latency and speed being quite similar, as both lines are routed through HK.