About Us

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Hello! Thank you for visiting ningboflyer.com.

Steve and Nick make up a team of traveling enthusiasts committed to delivering unbiased travel reviews. As self-funded travelers, we do not accept sponsorships or product placements from any company. Our goal is to provide the most transparent and high-quality travel reports possible, based entirely on our own experiences. We personally cover all costs associated with the trips featured on our platform. By remaining independent and uncompromised, we can offer genuine perspectives to inform and inspire fellow adventurers. Selected content may be available in both English and Chinese to bridge cultural insights across our global community. We strive to build a trusted resource for travelers seeking authentic recommendations.

Who are Ningbo Flyers?

United by a shared passion for travel, Steve and Nick are committed to providing high quality reviews rooted in their connections to Australia and China - two places they proudly call home. Drawing from their intimate knowledge of these countries, they work tirelessly to deliver insightful perspectives across our platform. Whether exploring bustling cities or remote countrysides, their on-the-ground experiences inform our content. We hope to convey the spirit of adventure that drives Steve and Nick to discover hidden gems, emerging trends, and transformative locations worldwide. Our goal is to inspire your own journeys, actuated by the same curiosity and enthusiasm that steers our explorations across diverse destinations.

Steve Zhang

With degrees from the University of Western Australia and RMIT University Melbourne, Steve boasts extensive expertise across aviation, travel programs, global immigration policies and banking systems in China and Australia. As founder and lead contributor for our website, Steve leverages his wealth of industry knowledge to deliver exclusive insights into unique travel experiences around the world. His passion for travel has driven the creation of our platform, where he actively seeks out novel opportunities to explore and share. Steve's specialized understanding of the intersection between travel, aviation, and cross-border policies and finance informs our content, empowering readers to navigate the world with confidence.

Nick Li

Nick is currently working as an UI/UX designer for a leading digital agency in Melbourne. With extensive experience in the Australian and Chinese travel sectors, especially aviation, Nick combines his professional expertise and personal interests to make this website possible. He overseas the operation of Ningbo Flyer, and makes sure our infrastructure is up and running.

Where is Ningbo?

Ningbo, our beloved home city, is a bustling port on China's eastern coast. As a relatively prosperous urban center with a tranquil pace of life, Ningbo boasts both historical significance and modern vitality. Home to Tianyi Chamber, the oldest private library worldwide, it is also a global shipping hub as one of the busiest ports on earth. Our website originated from this rich cultural cradle, starting as a local community before expanding globally. With Ningbo as our home base, we set out to share the city's hidden gems, emerging trends and promising opportunities with the wider world. Our mission remains to convey Ningbo's dynamic character as we continue navigating new horizons.

Infrastructure

Ningbo Flyer is hosted on a cloud server in Sydney, Australia, powered by Alibaba Cloud. Previously hosted on AWS and Linode, we experienced technical limitations as our content and traffic expanded, including DDoS attacks that disrupted services. To ensure resilience against cyber threats and provide reliable access from China, we migrated to Alibaba Cloud for their robust security protections and local infrastructure. This switch has allowed us to scale smoothly while safeguarding our global community from disruptions.

To deliver content worldwide, Ningbo Flyer utilizes Cloudflare for optimized content distribution. For storing and transmitting images, we rely on Imgur. Videos embedded in our articles are hosted on our YouTube channel. These third-party services have their own privacy policies regarding data collection and sharing. We encourage you to review their policies to understand how your personal information may be handled by our partners. By using trusted platforms like Cloudflare, Imgur and YouTube, we aim to provide a smooth user experience while being transparent about how your data is managed across our services.

Our server infrastructure runs on Rocky Linux, an enterprise-grade operating system built by the open source community to be fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With its focus on stability, security and reliability, Rocky Linux provides the robust foundation we need to deliver a smooth, dependable experience for our users. The high-performance capabilities of Rocky Linux empower our server to handle intensive workloads efficiently. By leveraging this hardened, enterprise-ready OS, we can scale our services with confidence while giving our global community the best possible uptime and responsiveness. The strategic choice of Rocky Linux reflects our commitment to delivering a premier platform that our users can trust.

Enquiries

For inquiries or commercial partnerships, please kindly email our founder Steve at [email protected]. We thank you for your patronage and donations, the link of which can be found at the bottom of every post.

Thank you again for visiting Ningbo Flyer. Enjoy!