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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. The GeoCities of China? by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Could someone help me out here, I am an ignorant occidental American developer barely able to use English ... I thought QQ was just a messaging program of bloated malware and adware that is insanely popular in China? Has it become (or is it aiming to become) more than that?

    Its parent company is a media company ... is this destined to be China's GeoCities era with horrid user generated web content alongside ads and malicious user generated data like GeoCities in the 90s? Or maybe the Myspace/Facebook of China?

    What exactly is this QZHTTP?

    I honestly don't know. Never heard of it before now, my Google Fu finds nothing in English. Indicating it is most likely propriety to Tancent QQ ...

    I hope this didn't affect the IPv4 exhaustion date.

    I guess this could also just be a whole lot of fuss over something that will become common place. I mean with the event of virtualization, hilarious 32 core chips due out and predictably cheap storage/memory ... won't every large company soon be able to foot the bill on and house (what appears to be) 20 million web servers? I guess IP addressing, routing & bandwidth will always be a problem but the hardware is sure getting to the point.

    --
    My work here is dung.
  2. Websites by iztehsux · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I really don't care what they're serving up on QQ as long as they knock it off with the repeated brute force SSH attempts every single day.

  3. qhttpd by ianare · · Score: 4, Interesting

    they're using qhttpd and linux.

    filtered/parsed results from running :
    nmap -A -T4 -F 182273490.qzone.qq.com

    Port80-TCP : i686-pc-linux-gnu

    501 Method Not Implemented
    The requested method 'OPTIONS' is not implemented by this server.
    http://www.tencent.com/ - qhttpd Server
    Server: qhttpd
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html
    Content-Length: 255

    info on qhttpd :
    http://www.xman.org/Qhttpd/design.shtml