April 16, 2000

The website was established and ftp service started. The server is a PC purchased at my own expense in the autumn of 1999: Celeron 366, 196M memory, Chengqi 6ASA motherboard (via692), 10M NE2000 network card (ISA), 17G hard drive (Seagate, 5400/512K). The hard disk is divided into 4G for music area. The software system is win98 serv-u.

In the early days of building the website, some users were unable to log in using IE, or were unable to open directories and download files. Later, I accidentally discovered that if I add an English letter before the Chinese name of the file, the problems will be much less. Due to the limitations of win98, the maximum output speed of ftp can only reach about 200kB/s, and the CPU usage is very high at this time, making it difficult to do anything else.

At first, the source of the songs was mainly mp3 discs. Every now and then, I would go to the small baskets of various stall owners to find songs. After June 2000, the National Polytechnic University waived the traffic fee for the education network and began to collect a large amount of information from the Internet. The number of de-education sessions gradually decreased. In addition, there are a small number of songs that are not available online at the moment, and they come from CDs, VCDs, and even tapes and radios. As the number of songs increased, the initial 4G music area became increasingly stretched. Later, pqmagic was used to extract data from other partitions several times, and the music area was expanded to 6G, 8G, and 10G.

August 9, 2000

With the increase in the number of visitors, the win98 serv-u server has become increasingly overwhelmed. At Sun's suggestion, we abandoned serv-u and switched to G6 for ftp service. The compatibility of client access tools has been somewhat improved, but the output speed is still limited to about 200kB/s, and the server is still struggling.

August 17, 2000

The number of songs reached more than 2,000, the 10G music area was almost full, and there was not much to squeeze out of other partitions. So I purchased a 30G piece (Maxtor, 5400/DMA66/512k, 1200￥) and used it all as the ftp music area. The original 17G Seagate was only used to boot the system and store personal data.

August 21, 2000

I became increasingly unbearable with the heavy load of the ftp service under win98. Instigated by Sun, I deleted win98 and installed win2k prof. Continue to use G6 as ftp service software, and the maximum output speed suddenly increases to about 800kB/s.

September 2, 2000

Bad sectors were detected on the 30G hard drive. I went to a computer company for testing and they agreed to replace the hard drive. Naturally, the original songs have to be moved to the new hard drive. The company's guy tried his best and used ghost, but made a mistake and reversed the target disk and source disk, washing out the 5G songs. It took many days to restore the songs.

October 18, 2000

Netizens uploaded more and more songs, approaching 7,000, and the 30G in the music area was almost full again. Considering that if another hard disk is added, the songs can only be stored in multiple partitions. If the original ftp method is continued, whether it is G6 or serv-u, it will be very inconvenient to manage and the desired effect cannot be achieved. I asked G6 company personnel via email about related technical issues, and the reply was that they could not be solved yet.

Having no choice but to consider switching to http-based web method. It took nearly a week to create the HTML web page and change the directory file names to pinyin abbreviations and numbers to completely eliminate the compatibility issues caused by Chinese links.

October 22, 2000

Gaya Music Station launched http service. Initially, IIS that came with win2k prof was used, but it was soon discovered that the limit on the number of connections prevented most users from logging in. So it was converted to win2k server that day, eliminating the limit on the number of visitors. At the same time, it also solves the management problem of multiple hard disk partitions and prepares for adding hard disks.

October 26, 2000

Counter added.

I went to the essence area of ??the Shuimu WWW version and found an asp counter description. I copied the source code back, copied it, modified and debugged it, and installed it on the home page.

November 14, 2000

The original hard drive is full again. Add another 40G (Maxtor, 5400/DMA100/2M, 1450￥). Together with the original 30G, the music area space reaches 70G.

November 20, 2000

After http was opened, many users used multi-threaded downloads, which overwhelmed the PC server and threatened the hard disk. For this reason, the access IP is restricted and is only accessible to users in the first and second districts of the University of Technology. Song downloading still uses ftp method, and each IP allows up to 3 ftp connections. On January 2, 2001

The server host was upgraded (about 2,000 yuan), the motherboard was replaced with Panying 8kta2, and the CPU was replaced with Duron 650MHz.

March 9, 2001

With the help of beauty, the song search function was added, and the song search database was established after several days of hard work.

March 29, 2001

With the help of beauty, an online playback function was added to the display results page of the song search.

April 3, 2001

Applying the source code provided by an asp technology website, adding a rough online people counting function

June 2001 On the 22nd, "Lilac Rain" (Lilac Online Literature Electronic Journal) was added, maintained by beauty and others.

November 1, 2001

With the help of beauty, the album, lyrics and other information of the song were added to the database, and an interface for netizens to fill in the lyrics and album name was provided. . The homepage adopts an automatic update method.

On November 14, 2001

The "Gaya *** Hero List" was launched, asking every netizen who supports Gaya music to "come to the surface" :)

November 17, 2001

The number of songs is gradually approaching 16,000, totaling 65G, and the original hard disk space is almost full again. I purchased another 80G unit (Seagate, 7200/DMA100/2M, 1480￥). The earliest Seagate 17G was retired and purchased by beauty at a sponsorship price. After expansion, the total space of the server music area reaches 130G.

November 24, 2001

The server CPU was replaced from AMD Duron 650MHz to Thunderbird 900MHz.

November 29, 2001

When the output speed of the NE2000 ISA network card is nearly 1MB/s, the CPU is basically at full load, which greatly affects the webmaster's other daily work. So I switched to the PCI 100M realtk8139 (thanks to wugang for helping with the binding), which reduced the CPU burden. However, due to the total hub export limit of the laboratory, the peak value is still maintained at around 1MB/s.

December 24, 2001

Beauty helped improve the song update program, reducing the maintenance workload; and realized automatically writing the song information in the database into the mp3 tag. January 16, 2002

Added song popularity (number of clicks) statistics and ranking functions.

February 27, 2002

The server-side IP restrictions on accessing Gaya Station through WWW were cancelled, but the IP for accessing Gaya through ftp (such as song downloads) Restrictions remain.

March 1, 2002

Ding Xiangyu, modeled after beauty, launched a comment function for Gaya music, which is still in the testing stage

2002 March 5th

Added a customization function for song sorting. Visitors can choose to sort by song title or album according to their own habits and needs.

March 10, 2002

Following the cancellation of IP address restrictions for accessing this site through WWW, the IP address restrictions for downloading songs from this site through ftp were also canceled (still Keep the limit of allowing up to 3 ftp connections per IP) and only limit the IP range of the uploading user.

March 12, 2002

Added a singer picture display system.

April 28, 2002

On April 26 and 27, foreign traffic suddenly increased by more than 500 M, resulting in arrears and IP being banned from leaving the school. According to the analysis of the Network Center, it may be a DDos attack.

May 14, 2002

After paying the network fee, the server IP can be removed from the school, but many telecommunications network users are still unable to access this website.

July 26, 2002

In order to facilitate update and maintenance, a singer and album classification management database was established, and the singer and album display page was rewritten. However, it also brings some inconvenience to users’ search.

August 15, 2002

A random play function was added to satisfy those users who are too lazy to look around and just want to listen to a few songs.

August 26, 2002

The hard disk space is full, so I bought a new 120G one (Maxtor, 5400 rpm, 2M, 1360￥), and the music area space reached 250G.

September 18, 2002

Learning from Anan Online, a music box function was added. After registration, users can collect their favorite songs into the music box. Since then, functions for adjusting the order of songs and selecting the starting and ending positions for continuous playback have been added to the music box.

October 25, 2002

The application for off-campus access to the server was processed. Except for apartment broadband users who are still unable to access Gaya due to telecommunications restrictions, other users can basically access it. access. However, due to the excessive network fees caused by the inflow of bytes accessed by non-free IP users, access by all non-free IP users had to be prohibited. Only some free IP users are allowed. Despite this, the traffic charges caused by scanning from foreign IPs are still considerable and have become a major concern. January 8, 2003

Another 120G was purchased (Maxtor, 5400 rpm, 2M, 1050￥), and the music area space reached 340G.

March 1, 2003

Based on the suggestions of netizens, a comment function for each song was added.

March 9, 2003

Flash type services were added, initially including "Music MTV" and "Cartoon Stories", and later adding "Interactive Games". In the future, we plan to add the categories of "Advertising Art" and "Netizen Originals".

March 20-April 20, 2003

With the increase in the number of concurrent visitors, the increase in database capacity, and the increase in service types, search based on access database The engine became increasingly overwhelmed. So I plan to change the database to sqlserver. After several attempts/setbacks/giving up/trying again, the data transplantation finally solved the data interface problem with the help of Powerstation and beauty. WindowsXP optimized the sql program after working hard for several days despite the busy schedule.

Late April 2003

The server suffered several intrusions and attacks, and the service was terminated several times.

May 1, 2003

The content of the homepage was changed, and the display of new albums and singles was removed and placed in a separate column to reduce the waiting time of visitors when opening the homepage. , balancing the overall load. And changed the site logo, thanks to leonado for making it.

June 1, 2003

In order to solve the problem of insufficient power supply, the server host hardware was upgraded (4560￥). The new configuration is: cpu Barton 2600, motherboard Volkswagen AN19E, memory ddr333 1G, hard drive 480G (5 pieces), power supply MGI 450W, chassis Gigabyte S9000.

June 17, 2003

Suffered another large-scale DDOS attack, causing the server network to be in arrears and only accessible to campus network users. After paying the network fee, off-campus users can access it again.

June 28, 2003

Because my father was hospitalized, the webmaster rushed back to his hometown to stay with him. The server was entrusted to the care of a friend. Soon after, due to network arrears, access outside the school was inaccessible. For various reasons, on-campus users are often unable to access it. The friend who helps with the care only tries to help restart the server once or twice a day. If it is ineffective in solving the problem, the friend generally can't do anything (after all, he is not as familiar with the software and hardware configuration of the server as gaea). The webmaster who is far away in his hometown is helpless during this period, and he is bitter... While taking care of his father at home, he is planning to revise the Gaya interface.

August 6, 2003

The webmaster returned to school. Gaya music interface has been revised, bid farewell to violets and enter the world of green grass.

August 8, 2003

A music calendar was added to the homepage.

August 10, 2003

Added album cover image display and self-service upload functions.

August 22, 2003

In order to alleviate the cost of server maintenance and operation, with the help and support of friends such as leonado, we started to raise funds.

September 15, 2003

A song selection function was added to the continuous playback of songs.

October 15, 2003

Started to fight for advertising, but made a helpless choice.

October 20, 2003

After negotiation between the webmaster and friends from the Provincial Information Port Network Operation Department, we obtained free telecommunications network export and server hosting services (will be considered in the future) cooperation). The server was moved to the telecommunications computer room. This has eliminated the burden of network traffic fees, which also means that all donations from netizens will be used for server hardware upgrades in the future.

October 29-November 10, 2003

The service was suspended due to an error in a data hard disk of the server. Use the funds raised to purchase three new Seagate 160G hard drives to replace the old hard drives. The song storage space reaches 480G.

December 1, 2003

After negotiating with the Yiqiao English Community, this site accepted advertising for the first time.

December 1, 2003

The number of songs in stock on this site exceeds 100,000.

December 5, 2003

A 120G hard drive was added, and the song storage space reached 600G.

December 10, 2003

Due to the tight bandwidth of the information port, the export bandwidth of Gaya was restricted. In order to ensure that on-campus users can still access it normally, this site has limited its open scope to on-campus users. January 2, 2004

The server of this website was moved back to the school and placed in the hosting computer room of the school network center. It will continue to be open to outside the school without the burden of network fees. Thanks to wugang, ps, etc. in the network center A lot of help from friends.

March 4, 2004

In order to facilitate off-campus users to access Gaya, this website has opened a telecommunications domain name, which is recommended for off-campus and broadband users.

April 3, 2004

The 40G system boot hard drive was damaged and was replaced with a newly purchased Seagate 200G, with a song storage space of 780G.

April 8, 2004

Due to copyright climate reasons, services to off-campus students were temporarily closed.

May 9, 2004

Undertaken the advertisement of Liansheng Group Buying Network.

September 24, 2004

tmhok joined Gaya's management team to assist in the update and maintenance of songs.

October 17, 2004

The server added a 512M memory (￥650, purchased from a netizen), and the total memory capacity was upgraded to 1.5G.

November 14, 2004

Signed a mirroring/advertising cooperation agreement with Harbin Litian Network. Litian provides file mirroring for Gaya in the information port to meet the needs of off-campus users. And provide Gaya with a hard drive for capacity expansion every six months. Gaya provides advertising services to Litian. The agreement shall take effect on the date when Litian's website is completed. However, the agreement never came into effect and nothing was done.

December 2004

The off-campus exit provided by the school network center for Gaya failed, causing off-campus users to be unable to access, and the problem has not been solved for a long time. In order to explain to off-campus users, the off-campus domain name was temporarily pointed to the webmaster's personal description page on Lilac BBS, which contained instructions for inaccessibility outside the school. January 26, 2005

After the webmaster went home for the holidays, the server power supply was damaged. No one could troubleshoot the problem during the holiday, and the website's services were interrupted. It was not until the webmaster returned to school on February 14 that he replaced the power supply for the server (￥480), and the service was restored and campus users could access it. Users outside the school were still unable to access it. Later I learned that it was because the school network outlet was tight and Gaya occupied too much out-of-school bandwidth, so I had to close the Gaya off-campus outlet.

April 2005

A notice seeking cooperation with off-campus mirrors was posted on the temporary page pointed to by the Gaya off-campus domain name.

May 2005

Copied all the data of Gaya Music for netizens in Hunan by mailing hard drives. Later they converted mp3 to rm and established .

June 2005

The original on-campus music station data of Sun Yat-sen University was lost, so I wrote to Gaya for help. By mailing the hard drive, all the data of Gaya Music was copied for them.

July 2005

A friend from Beijing contacted Mirror via email and copied all the data of Gaya Music for them by mailing a hard drive. Later, the page of the mirror site could be accessed, but downloading and listening to songs online never worked.

September 2005

A hard disk, Seagate 400G (￥2200), was added to the server, and the total website space reached 1200G. In January 2006

Another friend from Beijing contacted Mirror via email and copied all the songs of Gaya Music for them by mailing a hard drive. During the winter vacation, I helped them set up the server system, and the mirror station was opened to the public in March. The mirror will be closed by December.

November 6, 2006

The number of songs in stock on this site exceeds 200,000. On April 12, 2007

A hard drive, Western Digital 500G (￥1475), was added to the server, replacing the original Seagate 120G. The total website space reaches 1580 G.

May 16, 2007

Gaya’s advertising agency was entrusted to two students from the Software College of Harbin Institute of Technology.

May 30, 2007

jiapeng joined the Gaya management team to assist in the creation, update and maintenance of the database of uploaded songs.

End of June 2007

Added artist picture comment function.

Early July 2007

Removed most of the images from the web page to improve page browsing speed for users with slow off-campus connections.

July-September 2007

Adopt a more detailed classification system for the styles and genres of European and American works, so that users can choose the ones they are interested in from an increasingly large number of European and American works. Appreciate and increase the listening rate of such works.

October 2007

The server host underwent the third comprehensive hardware upgrade (the first two were in 2001.1 and 2003.6). The power supply was changed to Kangshu 550W; the CPU was changed to Use Intel Core 2 Quod 6600; change the motherboard to Intel S3000AH; change the memory to DDRII 4G (1G×4); purchase a new Seagate 500G hard drive, replacing the original three 160G ones that have been in service for four years. Together with a Western Digital 500G, a Seagate 400G and a 200G, the total hard drive space after the upgrade is 1600G. It is more convenient for further expansion in the future.

December 2007

The website began to transform its management. In accordance with the principles of division of labor and collaboration, a large number of volunteers were recruited to participate in the management and maintenance of Gaya, reducing it to a small number. Management of two or three people builds management for multiple people. January 23, 2008

Website expansion. A 750G hard drive (Western Digital Enterprise Grade, ￥1470) was added, and the total music space reached 2350G.

April 19, 2008

The total number of website visits exceeded 10 million. January 20, 2009

With the care of the leaders of the webmaster’s department, Gaya’s server was upgraded for the fourth time. Upgraded system configuration: CPU X3320 2.5G quad-core; memory 4G; hard disk 500G 3×1000G; the original server is reserved for backup.

December 2009 - March 2010

Due to adjustments to the computer room in the network center, Gaya Music was out of service for nearly four months. April 5, 2010

Because the school official department was worried about being affected by copyright issues, Gaya's server could no longer be stored in the computer room of the school network center. So I moved back to the laboratory where the webmaster was located. Because the new IP used by the server is the lab's campus IP, it can only be accessed by campus network users.