Chapter 21 Product Launch

In order to promote WEB Ark 1, Noah's Ark will hold a very grand product launch conference on December 1st!

Although Noah's Ark is not famous, the two holding companies behind it are well-known in Silicon Valley!!

The invitation sent by Nicholas Group and Cisco to the major innovative high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, this kind of momentum is by no means idle! Netscape Browser, IMDB website, Nicholas website, and Cisco official website are also promoting the upcoming product launch of Noah's Ark!!

"Noah's Ark has arrived, have you bought tickets on your website?"

The whole network bombards ads, and almost every netizen who goes online will see this sentence.

Although the product launch of Noah's Ark has not yet been held, it has aroused people's strong curiosity!

Many newspapers and media also began to report on this!

The company's CEO, Bob Gallaher, is full of confidence, and he said that Noah's Ark will definitely soar this time!

It didn't take long for December 1st to come to Noah's Ark's product launch conference, including IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, which sent representatives of their respective companies!

On the exhibition stand, the lights are shining. There is a red carpet on the floor, and the background wall is a projection cloth. A web Ark One was placed in the center, but at the moment it was obscured by a red cloth.

The time for the press conference is approaching, and Bob Gallaher walks on stage confidently in a crisp suit!

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the launch of our Noah's Ark Company!" Bob Gallaher said to the hundreds of viewers, "Although I am handsome, there are still many people who do not know me. Therefore, in order to let everyone know me as a handsome guy, I will introduce myself first. Ahem...... My name is Bob Gallaher and I'm unmarried...... So, if there's a beautiful woman who likes me, please contact me privately!Okay, just kidding everyone!!"

Bob Gallaher humored for a moment, then walked to the center of the booth, put his right hand on the red cloth, and said, "Did you see this thing on the stage, are you very curious?"

Bob Gallaher didn't immediately remove the red cloth, but said: "I believe everyone has seen the sentence 'Noah's Ark has arrived, have you bought tickets on your website?' As we all know, you need to have a high-performance computer to open a website. However, today's supercomputers are too expensive, and ordinary computers can easily cause websites to crash. So, we at Noah's Ark have developed a product to solve this problem for website companies!"

"Now, it's time to unveil this mystery!" Bob Gallaher said, suddenly lifting the red cloth, revealing Web Ark One.

The first thing that everyone thought was that it was very similar to a computer, but it was larger than a normal computer.

"This thing is called a web server, a special class of computers designed and served for the web, and compared with general-purpose computers, it is many times stronger in terms of processing power, stability, reliability, security, scalability, manageability, etc.! With it, you don't have to worry about the website crashing easily. It's made for websites!!"

Bob Gallaher then explained and demonstrated.

There are many people in the audience who have built websites, and some of them have collapsed. The advent of web servers is undoubtedly a boon.

Generally speaking, they need to use a supercomputer to build a website, otherwise, the website will be delayed due to a large amount of traffic. But supercomputers are expensive, and ordinary companies can't afford to use them! A supercomputer can't move hundreds of thousands of dollars at every turn, which is still cheap, and if it is expensive, it can cost millions of dollars.

"Now some people may ask, how much is your web server? Hehe, I can tell you, it's much cheaper than the supercomputer you use today! Well, I'm not going to whet your appetite, it's only 100,000 dollars! You heard it right, it's just 100,000 dollars!! and for 100,000 dollars, you can have a web server that can be compared to a supercomputer! So, if you need to build a website, buy a web server!!

"In addition, our company will also set up a server hosting department to provide hosting services for major websites, which means that you can rent our web server for money. And the hosting fee is not expensive, only $2,500 per month!"

Finally, Bob ended the product launch with a shout "Noah's Ark has arrived, please buy tickets for the website".

After the press conference, three companies placed orders, each ordering a Web Ark One. Another five companies applied for escrow services. For the next month, people called the company every day to inquire about the situation, and although there were not many web servers sold, there were many websites that applied for hosting, and there were more than two dozen websites in total.

On November 31, 1987, the number of global websites exceeded 10,000!

According to the statistics of the domain name management company, the number of domain names applied for has exceeded 10,000, and the number of websites should soon reach 10,000! Even if only one-fifth of the websites are hosted by Noah's Ark, Noah's Ark can make a lot of money!

Generally speaking, those who buy servers are companies with money, but even more who don't. In the Internet world, 20% of companies buy their own servers, and 80% of companies find specialized hosting agencies. Therefore, the hosting market is still huge! Only selling servers, Noah's Ark may not make much money in the early stage. Although the money in the custody business is not much, it is expensive and lasting, and it can make money continuously.

In order to make Noah's Ark grow faster, Nicholas Group and Cisco raised a second round of funding for it, jointly investing $10 million. Noah's Ark is ready to build more than a dozen substations in the United States, each of which will establish a hosting library. Each hosting repository has ten web servers. For websites with poor traffic, one web server is enough to deal with **. However, limited by the transmission speed of the network, it is best to host less than 50 websites in a hosting library, and if there are more, the server is fine, but the network is likely to be blocked, and finally the website is delayed to death!

However, considering that the network of the US Science Foundation has begun to speed up, it will not take a year or two for the network speed to increase dramatically! At that time, Noah's Ark will definitely usher in explosive development.

Once Noah's Ark is developed, Henry feels that cloud storage, cloud computing, and big data can take the lead in layout. Engaging in hosting now is equivalent to owning someone else's data. Although stealing information is unethical, there is no morality in business. This is also the helplessness of some small companies......

In addition, since the web server has been developed, the server with other functions can also be developed. In big companies like IBM, supercomputers are developed, not to mention servers. In the previous life, IBM's servers were very awesome! Noah's Ark made a time difference, taking advantage of IBM's not yet entering the server industry, and hurried to seize the market, striving to become the world's best server company! (Vote...... )