Basic Concepts
MJJ - Refers to players who are passionate about tinkering with VPS, originating from the Hostloc forum
Chicken/Little Chicken - Refers to a VPS or cloud server
Mother Chicken - Refers to a dedicated server used for virtualization and splitting into "little chickens"
Dedicated Server/Dufu/Dufu (homophones) - A dedicated server, a whole physical server rented entirely by one customer
VDS - Sits between VPS and dedicated server, with exclusive CPU resources
Landing Machine - The physical server on which a VPS actually runs
Server Types
Big Disk Chicken - VPS with especially large disk capacity
Website Building Machine - VPS suitable for building websites
High Traffic Machine - VPS offering a large monthly traffic quota
Line Machine - Core selling point is network line quality
Toy Machine - VPS with low specs and extremely cheap price
Landing Chicken - Network is average but has good unlock capabilities, suitable as a landing node
Relay Chicken - Server with excellent network lines, used for relaying traffic to optimize network connections
NAT Chicken - VPS without a dedicated public IP
Three Mao/Five Mao - Super cheap servers from Russian ruvds (30 rubles ≈ 2.7 RMB)
Provider Related
Overselling - Provider sells too many VPS on one server, causing resource shortages
Oneman - IDC operated by a single person, high risk of running away
Running Away - Provider shuts down service and absconds with funds
Hearse - Extremely high specs and extremely low price, very high risk of running away
Song Zhongji (Send-to-China Machine) - VPS whose IP is located in China. When a proxy enables location, the IP is marked as Chinese, making it impossible to unlock AI services, YouTube Premium, etc. "Sending to China" affects other machines in the same IP range and is considered a bad practice
Backstab - Provider lowers prices or launches better products, making old users feel cheated
Network Related
Lame Leg Machine - Severely asymmetric upload/download bandwidth
Curry Machine - VPS in Indian data centers
Turkish Chicken - VPS in Turkey
NAT Machine - No dedicated public IP, shares IP with other users
Port Forwarding - Essential skill for NAT machines, forwarding external port traffic to internal services via rules
Transaction Related
PUSH - Transfer VPS ownership to another account
Change Email - Transfer VPS ownership by changing the account email
Original Email - The original email; in transactions, control of the email is also transferred
Pay First/Machine First - Whether to pay first or get the server first in a transaction
aff - Referral link for commission
Heirloom - Extremely cost-effective but no longer available plans
White Freebie - Homophone for "freebie" (getting something for free)
Corn/mi - Homophone for "domain name"
Disk Related
Stone Disk - Server with very low disk IO
Diamond Disk - Even lower IO than stone disk, extremely slow
Oil Disk - Satirical term for Alibaba Cloud's slow ESSD
Virtualization Technologies
KVM - Mainstream virtualization, fully independent virtual machine
LXC/OVZ - Lightweight containers, prone to overselling
VM - VMware virtual machine
HY - Hyper-V
PVE - Proxmox VE
Sailboat - Docker
Configuration Description
XCXG (e.g. 2C2G) - C = number of CPU cores, G = RAM in GB
CPU Models
E5 - Old Xeon, "foreign garbage"
EPYC/Xiaolong - AMD datacenter CPU, reliable performance
ARM - ARM architecture, high energy efficiency
Bandwidth Related
G Port/10G Port - NIC port speed
Network Lines
163 - China Telecom's basic backbone (AS4134), carries the most traffic, heavily congested during peak evening hours
CN2 GT - China Telecom's mid-tier line, domestic segment uses congested 163, only international exit uses CN2, poor experience during peak hours, jokingly called "chicken rib" (not worth it)
CN2 GIA - China Telecom's top-tier line (AS4809), full CN2 dedicated route, highest priority, extremely low packet loss, most expensive
4837 - China Unicom backbone
9929 - China Unicom A network (AS9929), former old Netcom backbone, few users, low load, extremely stable
CMI - China Mobile International (AS9808), strong in Asia-Pacific, "do great things with little money"
CMIN2 - China Mobile's premium line, comparable to CN2 GIA and 9929, not limited by QoS
Softbank - Japanese line, works well with all three Chinese ISPs
New/Old Novosibirsk - gcorelabs Novosibirsk datacenter
Provider Nicknames
搬瓦工 (Bandwagon) - bandwagon, high-quality CN2 line
Spartan (Sibala) - spartanhost, high DDoS protection VPS
Boss Chicken/Chicken Chief - Nickname for wikihost (Weiji Hosting) owner
Half-price Cloud - V.ps
Green Cloud/Baoqiang Cloud/Green Hat Cloud - Greencloud
Routine Cloud - Alibaba Cloud, known for tricky promotions
Conscience Cloud - Tencent Cloud, known for generous coupons
Heartless Cloud - Tencent Cloud. Attracted many users with big promotions, then mass-banned mining/jumpbox accounts, making users feel cheated
Turtle Shell - Oracle Cloud, known for difficult registration and strict risk control
Fatty/Skinny Monkey/Stick - Nicknames for VirMach owner
Four Heavenly Kings - CC, RN, VIR, PR — four major VPS providers
ISP Slang
Immovable - China Mobile
Unconnectable - China Unicom
Untrustworthy - China Telecom
The world is within reach with more money - Sarcastic take on China Telecom's ad slogan
Common Abbreviations
az - Microsoft Azure
pr - PacificRack
od - Microsoft Onedrive
a1 - Microsoft Office 365 A1
pp - PayPal
tg - Telegram
gv - Google Voice
ion - ion Cloud
cc - Cloudcone
rn - Racknerd
CF - Cloudflare
CFT - AWS CloudFront
NF/Naifei - Netflix
Server Status
Downtime - Server is unreachable
XX hang - Service resource usage spikes, causing downtime
E28 - Linux error code, usually means disk is full
IP Related
Clean IP/Dirty IP - Whether the IP is blacklisted
Receiving D/Receiving C - IP receives complaints due to DDoS/CC
A/B/C Segment - IP address segment classification
Anycast/BGP/Any Assignment - IP anycast technology
Other Terms
PT/Box - PrivateTracker downloading
YouTube - Youtube
Evening Peak - 7-12pm, when international lines are congested
eu.org - Long-running free second-level domain registration service, provides xxx.eu.org domains, often used with Cloudflare and other CDN services
Beian - Homophone for "ICP filing" (Chinese website registration)
DMCA - Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DD - Installing OS via non-official platform methods
CEO/Liema - Blackhat SEO
Jianhuang - Homophone for "porn review"
127 - 127.0.0.1
3 Euro/5 Euro - online.net/OneProvider dedicated server heirloom plans
The above content is compiled from multiple sources. Contributions are welcome~
