Reborn 92's Business Tycoon

Chapter 501: Chapter 501: A paralysed server

The spirit of the Internet is mainly reflected in four aspects: openness, equality, collaboration, and sharing. The sharing spirit is the driving force behind the development of the Internet and the key to its rapid development.

Feng Yiping remembers that when he was a child, popular songs would have to be popular in big cities for at least a year before they became popular in remote places like his hometown. Similarly, in the past, the only way for a song to become popular across the country quickly was to be performed on the Spring Festival Gala.

But now, thanks to the rapid development of the Internet, anything that gets enough attention can become known all over the world in minutes.

Feng Hongbing, wearing a company-issue sky-blue short-sleeved shirt and dark blue trousers, carrying a canvas briefcase full of documents, had just left a furniture market when he received a text message from the company's office worker, saying that there was something good to watch on the convenience store website.

Something good? He walked into an Internet café next door, 'Boss, turn on the computer and bring a bottle of water,'

feeling that the page was opening a bit slowly today, probably because the computer in the Internet café was under-configured, he thought.

In the top advertising bar, this is not a new product promotion, but a bunch of people gathered around a person playing the zither by a campfire.

What is this? He clicked on it, and it turned out to be a video. He quickly put on the headphones next to him that didn't look very clean, and then the heart-stopping singing started.

This song is so good! But why would the convenience store put such a song in such a good position? He listened while thinking.

After listening to it once, he felt that the voice sounded a bit familiar, and there was a horse neighing in the background. Then he thought of the company's recent company trip, and he immediately understood that this was Ping singing!

He had never heard anyone sing this song before, so did he compose it himself? How did he become so amazing now?

But then he thought, when he was a child, he seemed to like this quite a lot. He remembered that before he started primary school, he was wearing a patched-up shirt that was too small for Yu Xuan and had been washed until it was white, and he was following the older children around, learning to sing 'My Beloved Hometown'. Although he couldn't make out the lyrics, he was still humming in tune.

Soon after the video of Feng Yiping's unannounced appearance was posted on the Youjia website, the first people to click on it were people from within the company like Feng Hongbing. Some had heard about it from the twenty colleagues who had gone on the trip together a long time ago.

For most employees, their boss is still a bit of an unknown, and they don't really know what Feng Yiping is like in his daily life. Of course, those who are from the same village as Feng Yiping, including Feng Hongbing and Feng Wen, knew what Feng Yiping was like before, but they have no idea what he's like now. So when they were given this rare opportunity, of course they wouldn't miss it.

Although many people were a bit sceptical when they heard about it from their colleagues before, when they heard it for themselves, they realised that it really was just like they'd been told – one word: beautiful!

On this day, there were also many posts on various portals and forums mentioning this event, and it was dubbed 'the best grassland folk song of the year,' with the prefix 'spy photo' added for fear that the hype was not enough.

To whet the appetite, only a clip from the video was attached; to watch the full thing, one had to go to the Youjia website. And there were replies arranged below these posts, such as 'I just watched it, it's really good,' and 'it really deserves to be called the best of the year,' and so on.

This was of course a well-planned arrangement. In fact, it could be considered the earliest form of internet army.

Every day, many people are extremely busy, and there are always many people flooding the internet with comments. Before long, there were more and more replies to these posts. Apart from saying that it was nice and good, people were generally curious about who this faceless person was and why there was a video of this on the website of this convenience store.

Some people even said that there seemed to be a Youjia convenience store nearby, and they would go and ask later.

Some sensible people said, 'Hype, definitely hype. Look at their page, they're mainly promoting the end-of-month sales. They put this up just to let us know about their sales.'

Then someone immediately replied, 'It's such a rare folk song, so it doesn't matter if we learn about the sales while we're at it. Besides, I just browsed a bit, and they're still having some pretty good sales.'

'Don't be silly, who sells as well as buys? I studied maths, and I know that the trick of buying a certain amount and getting a certain percentage back is not worth looking at,'

'No, they're quite honest. There are quite a few buy-two-get-one-free or even buy-one-get-one-free items,'

and then the thread naturally went off on a tangent, 'Buy two pairs of chopsticks and get a pack of instant noodles, buy a car model and get a car?'

Soon after, someone else posted, "I went to the nearby Youjia convenience store and asked around. I heard from the staff inside that it seems to have been sung by their little boss,'

and the word "little' was used well, immediately setting off another round of euphoria.

'Go, second generation rich kid, no wonder!'

'Exactly, they're rich, I wonder how much they paid for the song,'

'What kind of thinking is that? Aren't there any slightly talented people among the second generation?'

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In the spirit of sharing, after watching the video, there were also many netizens who took the initiative to post comments everywhere. Coupled with the promotion by their own army of internet trolls, by noon, these posts that had been posted everywhere had become hot posts. Some people were already humming the song on the street.

Feng Yiping and Jin Ling had achieved their goal. Whether they intended to or not, more and more people were paying attention to Youjia and their promotion.

Some customers who had visited Youjia before but had not paid much attention to it clearly remembered its name this time.

This buzz even caught the attention of some domestic record companies. To others, it was just a catchy song, but to them, it was a great business opportunity. As a result, the workload at the front desk of Youjia suddenly increased, and the calls were coming from record companies that had nothing to do with it.

The software and hardware were good, and there was a laid-back university campus atmosphere. Of course, many people got involved in the discussion of this topic. Some people found the video annoying and wondered if they could write a software to convert it to MP3.

During lunch, the video was playing in the dorm rooms with computers, and it sounded like a chorus as it bounced from floor to floor.

The computer in the dorm room next door was packed with people, and Yan Zhi Da couldn't even squeeze in. He was a little annoyed and said, 'Damn it, I'll bring one from home tomorrow,'

These days, laptops are still a very high-end thing. Even domestically-made desktop computers are so expensive that some families have to sell a kidney to afford them. So when it comes to computers, not to mention one for every person, on average, there may not even be one for every bedroom.

Jin Bao laughed, 'What's the rush? Have you forgotten that Jia is Yiping's company? And it seems like he really did sing it, right, Wenqing?'

'I've only heard you guys talking about it, I haven't seen it yet, but a couple of days ago, Yiping did take last year's outstanding employees and their parents on a tour to the grasslands. I'll go to the store in the afternoon and ask,'

'Why wait until the afternoon? Call him now and ask him to bring a copy over, to the envy of the guys next door,' Liang Yonggao said.

'You want to show off in front of Xiao Cai, don't you,' Han Guiliang said, reading his mind.

'Heh heh,' Liang Yonggao laughed without saying anything. An excellent boyfriend is the one who gets things done before his girlfriend even thinks of it.

'It's not connecting, it's busy,' Jin Bao put down the phone.

At that moment, someone next door happened to be speaking loudly, 'Shit, what's going on, why can't I access this website?'

'Serves you right!' Yan Zhida said with glee.

Looking at the other few people, especially Lu Wenqing, whose face was not looking good, he immediately explained, 'Hey, I'm not talking about Yiping's website,'

Feng Yiping was on the phone with Jin Ling at the moment. 'What, the server is down?'

'Yes, it just went down. I've already told them to negotiate with the telecommunications equipment room and rent one immediately. If one isn't enough, rent another,' Jin Ling didn't sound unhappy.

Feng Yiping was in a good mood too.

He was quite willing to spend money on some things, such as servers. He had two of them, a simple cluster, in case one went down and the website became inaccessible.

For reasons that are well known – the extremely poor interconnection between different operators, for example Netcom users accessing the Telecom network, which is slow and has long delays – these two servers are now hosted by Telecom. In theory, there should be plenty of spare capacity, and even if 5,000 or 6,000 people were online at the same time, there would be no problem at all.

I never thought it would collapse so quickly, so that means the number of people online at the same time is probably close to 10,000. How much traffic was there today?

'You were right to rent it,'

I really hope that this level of traffic can continue, then I can consider selling advertising space on this website.