Chapter 954 - Losing Money and Making Drinks (Two More Collections)
Qin Feng's advertorial of "Cloud Disk Service Guide" has undoubtedly opened up a new world for everyone.
"Damn, I've been worrying about what to do if there are too many games, there's no place to use it! Some players said excitedly.
"Well, there's a lot of MP3s, too. I don't have enough space. Now it's good!" said a music lover.
"And my little movie, there is room for it now!" said a fan of action movies in an island country.
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Under the guidance of this guide, everyone finally understood how to use such a huge cloud space.
Not to mention, all of a sudden, the hard disk space frees up a lot of space. You can install games and software that you usually use frequently.
This is equivalent to a large amount of hard disk space for everyone.
And it's a lot bigger.
"Mr. Qin, the average cloud disk now accounts for more than 30%, and we have spent more than 30 million to buy hard disks, and more people have opened and used them. If this continues, our costs are too high. The chief financial officer came over and reported.
This is not only the cost of buying a hard drive, but also the usual maintenance, electricity costs, and server overhead, etc., which are all large numbers.
And for now, that's not going to be a gain.
It's completely free.
There is no ability to monetize at all.
Now I have to spend more than 20 million yuan a month on various maintenances, which is too expensive.
That's money!
Of course, there is no fear of spending money. But if you can't make money by spending money, there's no way.
"Take it, this is a small program I just wrote for intelligent screening!" Qin Feng said, "The technical department will load it into the cloud space." ”
The functionality of this applet is very simple and simple. That's one point, automatically identify the type of file uploaded by netizens. If it's the same, it will be deleted by default after it's uploaded.
In this way, a large amount of wasted space can be avoided.
For a lot of users, large files are basically the same. Only some personal documents are not the same. In terms of personal documents, it can be said that they take up very little space and will not cause any financial burden to the company at all.
In this way, the economic cost can be saved a lot.
And, technically, it's not that difficult.
Just a very simple filtering mechanism. This is also the most commonly used technology in all cloud spaces in later generations. When you upload a lot of files, they will be uploaded instantly, because there are already similar ones in cyberspace.
So, there's no need for you to transfer extra.
As for whether errors will be detected, accidental deletion is different. It's not impossible. For example, if a file is more than 90% the same, but it is slightly different, it may have been deleted by mistake.
However, this odds are slim.
Because at the time of selection, the manufacturing date, modification date, and file size of the source file will be compared.
Only files that are exactly the same size and have similar dates will be deleted.
After all, any small change will cause the file size to change.
Even a 1-byte change will retain the file, not delete it.
Therefore, this technology can reduce the company's operating costs as much as possible.
"So how do we make money?" asked the CFO.
The finance department, no matter what the technology is, they just care about whether it can be profitable or not.
After all, if the company wants to survive, it can't just burn money and not make money.
Even if you need to burn money like crazy right now, you have to have a profit plan.
If there is no hope of profitability at all, then the Ministry of Finance must stop it, or at least raise objections. As for whether it will be approved or not, it depends on the CEO's decision.
"From the side of ordinary players, you can't make money. Except for a little advertising revenue. Qin Feng said.
The finance department frowned.
Advertising revenue, it's really not big. At least the advertising revenue brought by the cloud space cannot compensate for its investment, operation and maintenance costs.
Of course, it is also feasible if it can attract a lot of popularity and maintain the company's overall operating income.
For example, if you turn off the cloud space, whether the loss of benefits is greater than that of maintaining the cloud space, and if the loss of benefits is greater, then keep it. Otherwise, it cannot be retained.
That's an account.
"The future is the world of clouds!" Qin Feng said with a smile, "Of course, there are still many other aspects of progress that need to be made." For example, big data, but also AI intelligence!"
Cloud computing, big data, and AI intelligence are the three pillars of the future Internet economy.
Any company that masters all three, even if it only grasps one of them, can bring huge and huge profits.
At this stage, it is indeed not profitable. However, the merit is in the present generation, and the benefit is in the future.
However, Qin Feng didn't say much, there were some things that didn't need to be explained too much. If you talk too much, it's easy to leak out. As long as the core people know.
This company belongs to Qin Feng, Jiang Yong and several others, and is not controlled by any capital. So, they can do whatever they want.
The rest of the departments are responsible and have the right to question, but they must follow orders.
Otherwise, if you don't do it, fuck off!
"Haha, I'll just say I'm the right one!" Wang Zhidong laughed.
Before this, when Ding Sanshi launched that advertorial, he was very criticized. After all, he followed Qin Feng closely, and in Ding Sanshi's advertorial, it seemed that he was particularly unassertive and stupid.
And now, Qin Feng's advertorial undoubtedly proves his wisdom.
Perhaps, he is not forward-looking in some things, but he has an eye for people.
What is he called? This is called no trick to win, there is a trick.
He didn't know what to do, he didn't know what it was for. But he just needs to know that Qin Feng has vision. He just followed Qin Feng to do it. That's not bad, of course.
No, Ding Sanshi's side kept 1000M still, and as a result, many people opened it on QQ. Of course, his ICQ has also been opened by quite a few people.
In this way, Ding Sanshi was the first to launch the cloud space, but not many people used it.
You say it's embarrassing or not!
Aggrieved or aggrieved!
The more he thought about it, the happier Wang Zhidong became. Now, he's not at the bottom, is he?
Now there is Ding Sanshi at the bottom for him, which is very happy.
Of course, he also has unhappy things. That is, the monetization ability of "Need for Speed" is too weak.
Although there are many players who have also spent money to buy gold coins to upgrade their cars. But there are too few people who spend money on this. At present, it has been in operation for a month, and the total income is only more than 1 million.
This money is not enough for servers, bandwidth usage, employee salaries and other expenses.
That's too little money.
It can only be said that it is a loss to make money.
After all, ICQ's popularity can be maintained at around one million, which is already very good.
This also made AOL and Boss Jiang very satisfied.
That's the only relief.