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The Chinese (Web Servers) Are Coming

Posted by timothy on from the maoism-taoism-i-ching-and-chess dept.

Glyn Moody writes "The February 2009 Netcraft survey is not the usual 'Apache continues to trounce Microsoft IIS' story: there's a new entrant — from China. 'This majority of this month's growth is down to the appearance of 20 million Chinese sites served by QZHTTP. This web server is used by QQ to serve millions of Qzone sites beneath the qq.com domain.' What exactly is this QZHTTP, and what does it all mean for the world of Web servers?"

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  1. Self-Censored by FredFredrickson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Self Censoring Web servers! Automatically removes all politically sensitive info for you! This will catch on quick, I bet!

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    1. Re:Self-Censored by UID30 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Self Censoring Web servers! Automatically removes all politically sensitive info for you! This will catch on quick, I bet!

      pfft. I've had this running as an apache module for years. mod_bigbrother ftw.

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  2. Corrected Story Blurb by JWSmythe · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... the appearance of 20 million Chinese phisher sites ...

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    1. Re:Corrected Story Blurb by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nippon QQ
      Ash gala wonderful
      Easy rider salad the mall
      Who dong hide label
      GOO! GOO! GOO! GOO!
      BUS! BUS! BUS! BUS!

    2. Re:Corrected Story Blurb by the_B0fh · · Score: 1, Funny

      net/phone-slang ? I tried to emerge that, and nothing happened. Is this a new variant of slang that supports voip? Where can I get it?

    3. Re:Corrected Story Blurb by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm also part of this conversation!

  3. Population growth by dimethylxanthine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't they implement the 1 server per company policy some time ago now...?? oh wait.

  4. Re:The GeoCities of China? by the+white+plague · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought 'QQ' was "round eyes filled with tears".

  5. What exactly is this QZHTTP by dimethylxanthine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ships with mod_serialz, mod_sslstrip, mod_censorhip and mod_smtprelay all configured and ready for use out of the box.

  6. The biggest problem with QZHTTP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    An hour later and your browser is hungry for headers again.

  7. The Great Scrabble Offensive of Twenty Ought-Nine! by MaxwellEdison · · Score: 4, Funny

    I knew it! China is finally making their move by grabbing up all q's. Then when we least expect it they'll slam down QUAMQUAM on a triple word score and we'll be toast! Why else would the Chinese have such a firm grasp of the Latin language?

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  8. In other news, by SilentBob0727 · · Score: 4, Funny

    served by QZHTTP. This web server is used by QQ to serve millions of Qzone sites beneath the qq.com domain

    A quorum of queasy, quitting queens, quaffing questionable quaaludes, quietly quote quips of quality quite exquisitely.

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  9. Re:Why mock this ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/

  10. Re:The GeoCities of China? by MightyMartian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Netcraft confirms it! Apache is dying, to be replaced by Apache!

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  11. Re:Why mock this ? by Skye16 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We'd learn some sweet Mandarin phrases, get some space ships, and then live in a pseudo wild-west sci-fi sort of situation.

    Just remember; I do the job, I get paid.

  12. Re:Pheature creep... by Fred_A · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, is it still considered phishing when it's a feature enabled by default?

    Just curious.

    Teach one man to phish and he can feed...

    Teach 20 million to phish and you have the Internet.

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  13. Re:The GeoCities of China? by khellendros1984 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope. It's boobs with tassels on the nipples.

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  14. Re:Why mock this ? by khellendros1984 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember, in the days of dialup, having a really terrible Star Trek fan page. It had a 500KB animated gif up at the top, which I converted from a video file. Glad I've grown up since then. Now I think I would put a 50MB animated gif, at least!

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  15. Re:Why mock this ? by khellendros1984 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Correction, we would all cuss and argue in Mandarin, and that's all we would use it for (except for the cool-looking Hanzi logos on our ships!) Still....I call the engine room bunk!

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  16. oblig by ianare · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must be new here.
    Don't swim against the current, but perpendicular to it.

  17. Re:Why mock this ? by russotto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, in France we wondered why Americans didn't take over all French websites by learning some basic French ;-)

    A) Americans, learn a foreign language? You must be joking.

    B) Taking over French things is the Germans' job.

  18. Re:Pheature creep... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't you mean pheed?