In a nutshell, the blog has moved to yilinhut.com
According to my original plan, ixiezi was just supposed to be a layover station, a place to practice before I bought my own hosting and domain and set up WordPress myself. Later I found that ixiezi’s philosophy and service were both quite good, and I thought I might as well keep using it like this… But in the end I still had to move away.
The main problem is that Aixiezi has been terribly slow lately—unacceptably slow. At first, when I started using it, the speed was quite good: exporting XML files could basically reach full speed (over 200k), and refreshing web pages was not much trouble. But recently it has been completely different: the download speed for exports never exceeds 6k, and web pages often won’t open even after several minutes. /startled/
On the other hand, I also used to communicate quite a bit with the boss of Aixiezi, saying some questions and suggestions, but since the end of last year there has been no sound at all, no reply whatsoever.
Of course, perhaps they ran into some difficulties, but in any case, if basic functions and stability can no longer be guaranteed, then I have no choice but to return to my original plan. /yawn/
The way things worked on Aixiezi also made me more familiar with and more convinced by WordPress, so I went off to find virtual hosting and set up my own blog.
The first one I found was China Interconnect, a domestic host without filing requirements that I found through a Taobao search. /acting like a newbie/ “Filing” is a uniquely Chinese issue; those students who don’t know the real story should go search it up. At 78 yuan a year, the price was pretty low. So I first installed WordPress on this machine, imported the logs from ixiezi, fiddled with plugins… /passing by/
The first problem I ran into was that the logs were not imported completely. Out of more than eight hundred logs in total, only six hundred-plus came over, and obviously it was not because of blogcn’s review process. I studied it for a long time without success (only after I tinkered with the mysql database today did I think of a possible reason). At the same time, the complete freedom over theme templates and plugins left me dazzled and busy again; that’s the charm of open-source software, I suppose. The vast majority of themes and plugins are folk creations, something you and I can both make or modify, and different themes and plugins suit different needs, making WordPress as a blogging platform both popularized and democratized, while still able to maintain a high degree of diversity and individuality. /tea/
But just as I was immersed in all the dazzling, frantic debugging, not even two days after opening it, right after I had just thrown a huge sum of money down as an advance payment to this company, their server went down. This website was running a promotion: during these few days, if you top up 500 yuan at once, all future hosting purchases would be half price. /frown/ I thought that sounded pretty good, after all the 78-yuan package I bought was only the lowest tier, and if I bought a slightly higher tier and bought it for a few years, half price would still be pretty nice. Unfortunately, the money I threw down late at night on the first day was followed, after one night’s sleep, by the server going down. /crying to death/
It is said that one of the machines in the server room where the server was located had illegal content, and China Telecom directly blocked the entire server room /frozen/, and that machine wasn’t theirs either; their company had just suffered an unexpected disaster and been dragged into it. From a personal standpoint, I sympathize with what they went through /hands up/, but after all, in practical terms, the reliability of this kind of small company’s so-called no-filing service does seem rather worrisome. So while I patiently(?) waited for them to recover /kicking a ball/ (it has still not recovered after several days), I started looking for other hosting.
The 500 yuan I threw into China Interconnect would not be completely wasted /wistful/, because I bought a domain through them, namely yilinhut.com. Although the price was a bit higher than usual, it was still acceptable. Then I found “Zhujiwu,” a very rare domestic free host without filing requirements these days. It offers 1G of space (the previous one was only 100M), FTP is very fast, and the functions are also good, but their “permanently free” plan comes with conditions: the first real-name registration only lasts 15 days, and then every month you have to ask the forum to help them post promotional threads; after one review, they extend it by one month. /picking nose/ Of course I’m not going to do something like that, so this space is only for continued testing, and after 15 days I will no longer use it.
In the end I bought a WordPress-dedicated Linux host from Huaxia Mingwang, and I’ll just honestly go through the filing process… /ouch/
Now yilinhut.com is already bound to Huaxia Mingwang’s host, but because the filing is not yet finished, it can’t be bound to a domestic IP for now. At the moment I’m using the CDN distribution service provided by Mingwang, and have bound it to a server in Japan for the time being. Once the filing is completed and this domain is bound to the domestic host, access from the education network will be possible, and regular database backups can also ensure data safety, so there will be no need to mess with mirrors or branch bases anymore.
In addition, I also registered the two free domains yilinhut.co.cc and philocn.co.cc (just register on co.cc). At present the former is bound to the free space at Zhujiwu, while the latter is trying to be bound to a free overseas host, but there is still no prospect of that, so forget it.
As for the branch base on blogcn, given blogcn’s various deficiencies, let’s just abandon it entirely.
As for the blog on ixiezi, I suppose it will also be set aside from here on. On one’s own website you can use phpmyadmin to tinker directly with the database, so on your own site it is easy to achieve perfect copying and backup; ixiezi’s significance as a backup station is not that great anymore… /sigh/
(Note: this article uses the custom-smiles plugin to embed onion-head emoticon images; they can only display properly on my new blog)
Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.
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