The internet often incorporates specialized terms that may leave newcomers feeling perplexed. Below is a brief explanation of each term:

1. Zhao Zhe, H2O: Refers to large bandwidth.
2. Sister-in-law: .xyz domain suffix.
3. Sword Emperor: Refers to the act of artificially inflating traffic to a cloud storage link containing illegal content such as pornographic images or videos, in order to combat these violations.
4. Big pipe, small pipe: Terms used to describe bandwidth size; a big pipe indicates a large bandwidth, while a small pipe indicates a smaller bandwidth.
5. Purple Sweet Potato Pudding: A common online practice of padding text, meaning to add meaningless words or symbols to meet a required word count.
6. Conscience Cloud: Refers to Tencent Cloud, named for its relatively reasonable pricing.
7. Trap Cloud: Refers to Alibaba Cloud, due to frequently changing prices and hidden fees like filing costs, humorously dubbed “trap cloud.”
8. Open Price: The agreed-upon price between buyers and sellers in the market, i.e., transparent pricing.
9. Neighbor: Refers to virtual VPS instances on the same dedicated server that share the same resources, usually within the same IP range or different servers but within the same subnet.
10. West Coast: Refers to the U.S. West Coast, known for faster access speeds to some servers in this region.
11. Bidirectional Direct: Indicates that communication between local and VPS uses the same line for both outgoing and incoming traffic.
12. Direct Connection to Three Networks: Refers to direct connections between the Unicom, Telecom, and Mobile networks, which can help improve access speeds.
13. Native IP: The original IP provided by local regional operators, in alignment with the country of broadcast and registration.
14. LET: An abbreviation for the LowEndTalk forum, which serves as a discussion platform for VPS vendors and users abroad, similar to the LOC forum in China.
15. Relay: Refers to forwarding network data from one server to another, commonly seen in Alibaba Cloud public relay services.
16. IPLC: Stands for “International Private Line,” which is expensive. The common form found in the market uses a pseudo-iplc based on Alibaba Cloud’s private network transmission or NAT products using IPLC lines, characterized by no restrictions, low latency, and high speed.
17. CN2, GT, GIA, 163: These terms primarily refer to network routes; generally, CN2 GIA is preferred over CN2 GT, which is in turn preferred over 163 for domestic use.
18. Aff: An abbreviation for Affiliate, meaning the promotion of VPS. Promoters can earn rebates upon registration and ordering.
19. North Shore: Refers to a harmonized version for filing.
20. Domestic Vendors: Vendors that are prone to disappear, often referring to newly opened businesses.
21. CF: Refers to Cloudflare, a free CDN service based abroad.
22. NF/Netflix: Indicates the streaming video service, Netflix.
23. Spinach: A euphemism for gambling or betting.
24. Du Fu, Poisonous Woman, Little Chicken, Dedicated Server, Big Plate Chicken: Du Fu refers to dedicated servers, abbreviated as “dedicated.” Little Chicken refers to small VPS instances derived from dedicated servers. Big Plate Chicken typically refers to VPS with hard drives over 250GB and relatively low prices, or dedicated servers with hard drives larger than 1TB.
25. Oversold VPS? What are the mainstream architectures in virtual machines?: An oversold VPS refers to virtual machines carved out from a dedicated server. Overselling means allocating too many small chickens within a dedicated server. The mainstream virtual architectures include OpenVZ, KVM, and Xen, among which OpenVZ can oversell everything, KVM can oversell CPUs but not memory and disk space, and KVM and Xen are relatively stable without significant overselling.
26. Stone Disk and Diamond Disk: Stone Disk refers to VPS with very low disk IO, generally below 100MB/s. Diamond Disk refers to very poor-performing disks, termed as “fighters among trash.”
27. Probe: A small PHP program that can be deployed on a VPS to check various performance parameters. Often used to exchange probe addresses to strengthen friendships.
28. Oneman: Refers to an IDC service provider operated by a single individual. Such providers usually have very low prices but may encounter various issues, lacking after-sales support and being prone to closure.
29. Family Heirloom: Refers to the phenomenon where the price of certain VPS instances skyrockets once they are sold out. If sellers stop offering them, the number of available instances becomes limited, greatly enhancing the stability of those instances, leading to a surge in demand for second-hand VPS, thereby increasing prices.
30. 163 Backbone, CN2GT, and CN2GIA: The 163 Backbone is a line built by China Telecom connecting to the global internet; CN2GT is a high-end line that offers greater stability and higher cost than the 163 Backbone; CN2GIA is the highest tier, currently the only line connecting directly to the U.S. The pricing hierarchy is as follows: the 163 backbone is the cheapest, while CN2GIA is the most expensive. Routes may differ for outbound and inbound traffic, including options for direct and detoured connections.
31. Dusting: Dusting refers to impulsive buyers who see good VPS deals and end up buying, but later realize they don’t need them, leaving them unused and gathering dust.
32. MJJ: Abbreviation for “No JJ,” a self-reference among Chinese VPS users and those involved in gambling, porn, and drugs. It also connotes a preference for purchasing VPS.
33. What is a Dao: Dao refers to the U.S. dollar, a phonetic representation of “dollar.” Most VPS providers only accept payments in USD.
34. North Shore: The same as before; it refers to a harmonized version for filing.
35. YouTube: Refers to YouTube, where many enthusiasts measure the quality of network connections based on video playback performance, although this method is not very precise.
36. What are the abbreviations for overseas data centers?: HK stands for Hong Kong, KR stands for South Korea, JP stands for Japan, SG stands for Singapore, and LA stands for Los Angeles.

The above explanations cover commonly used specialized terms in the network realm. Understanding these terms can help us better navigate the online world and choose the right service providers.