http://blog.59box.com Hosting in China - all about the business of hosting in China Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:07:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to this news on Devshed, servers in China host almost half of the malware in the world. Hardly a surprise to the veteran Internet users in China. Intentionally or unintentionally, malware lurks in most China sites. As detailed in the above news, malwares represent enormous financial return. This is attractive ... http://blog.59box.com/40/2007/10/13/china-host-448-of-worlds-malware/ Cyber police started patrolling China(Beijing) websites from September. Well "Patrolling" is not really a correct description since it is essentially like a rich media advertisements. "Click this to report illegal content." Maybe it will start appearing in Google ads too. Interesting twist to online ads won't you say? Reportedly, the 2 cartoon characters ... http://blog.59box.com/39/2007/09/05/virtual-police-to-patrol-china-websites/ We had been quiet for a while but we had not been idle. Last week, We just launched our hosting service in Singapore. We have a local presence in Singapore through a partner so it is not just a virtual presence but physical as well. As previously posted, our VPS servers ... http://blog.59box.com/37/2007/08/10/launched-service-in-singapore/ Without much fan-fare, we launched our VPS hosting service based on Xen technology. We are probably the very few that sells Xen VPS hosting in China. Xen is server virtualization technology that allows multiple instant of (virtual) servers to run within a (physical) server. Unlike traditional virtual-hosting where the server space is ... http://blog.59box.com/35/2007/06/15/xen-vps-servers-hosting/  We had integrated PayPal as one of our hosting payent option so customer who do not transact in Chinese Yuan can simply pay us in US Dollars through PayPal. With PayPal you can also use your credit card for payment, simply make the appropriate selection as you check out. We believe this ... http://blog.59box.com/34/2007/05/23/hosting-payment-with-paypal/ China has 3 long holiday seasons each year each lasting a week . The May First holiday (五一, Labor Day) , the October First holiday (十一, National Day) and the Chinese New Year (春节) that falls between the month of January and February (determined by the lunar calendar). One of the ... http://blog.59box.com/32/2007/05/04/the-may-holiday-and-hosting-in-china/ Some of the questions that we got asked a lot are What is the speed to/from so-and-so location? What is the bandwidth we are getting? How much data can I transfer in a month? Why is my connection to so-and-so so slow? Often the various terms - bandwidth, network speed, monthly data transfer ... http://blog.59box.com/30/2007/04/19/bandwidth-monthly-transfer-limit-latency-network-speed/ I (that's me, Ken) just came back from the FC Club networking event tonight. To be frank the organizer really need more polish at the door but the people attending were great. If you are dropping by this blog from our event contact, feel free to leave a note and say ... http://blog.59box.com/26/2007/04/03/fc-club-networking-tonight/ Internationalization. Other than being a mouthful to read aloud, it is a real challenge if you are trying to host multiple languages website, across multiple locations. Like most IT issue however, hosting multiple-language site either works just fine and you never think there is a problem or it can turn out ... http://blog.59box.com/24/2007/03/30/internationalization-challenge-in-hosting/ We encountered so many myths, facts and fallacies concerning the registration of .cn domain I think it is time to provide the right information. Indeed, many webhosting companies in China are not aware of the details since they  operated in the local market context. Amazingly even some of the accredited registrars ... http://blog.59box.com/23/2007/03/25/whole-truth-about-registering-cn-domain/