Update: SAE has officially debunked the rumor. http://weibo.com/1662047260/Bg8rZ0sGN SAE is Sina's cloud computing platform and one of the earliest cloud platforms in China. It has been running relatively well, but recently they made a big mistake: they forgot to renew the domain name sinaapp.com, which is used to run websites on SAE, and it has been deleted. Moreover, it seems they won't be able to get the domain back anytime soon because the foreign domain registrar GoDaddy quickly snatched the domain upon expiration and renewed it until 2020. No one knows how much GoDaddy will ask for this domain. $ whois sinaapp.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic....
Building Your Own CDN with Sina App Engine and Baidu App Engine
Warning: Due to my oversight, there was a mistake in a line of the SAE CDN index.php code. Please refer to the comment in the code below to correct it, otherwise it will cause issues with fetching remote images. Most people host their blogs abroad for reasons I won't elaborate on. However, SAE and BAE servers are located in China and offer fast speeds (though SAE, being in the China Telecom Access Network, experiences occasional instability). Therefore, we can use them to accelerate our blogs. Building CDN with SAE This method uses SaeLayerCDN, available in SAE's App Store for one-click installation. After installation, just modify a few simple settings....