Chapter 221: Another Year (Six) Vientiane Update
Qi Na returned to Ningnan and began to devote himself to work, first of all, the load of Life Online continued to strengthen, and the number of servers occupied began to exceed 3,000, which was just a little finger of Taozhen.com, but for Life Online, it grew too fast, and the company was completely unprepared, just thanks to Peter, this non-human, the existence of artificial intelligence, in order to maintain the operation of all servers 24 hours a day.
Asakawa data center will not be deployed until at least May, but with the sharp fluctuations of Taozhen's network, a large number of users cannot use it normally, and they are forced to abandon Taozhen and switch to e-commerce platforms such as Life Online and JD, which is extremely significant during the short Spring Festival holiday. This naturally also caused huge pressure on the service platform of life online, fortunately, everything is under Peter's control, he communicated with Qi Na repeatedly, in addition to some optimization settings, increase server memory, use SSD hard disks and other measures, a large number of server virtualization technology, and some low-load servers are virtualized into two servers corresponding to different services, digging deep into the existing performance potential, and trying to support the huge demand.
However, there are always some e-commerce companies that miss this opportunity because of a lack of response.
More industry commentators are downish on this small change, believing that giants also have time to take a nap, and there is no e-commerce company in China that can give Taozhen a real threat.
But what everyone can't understand is that for half a month, Taozhen's network problems have not been solved, and it looks like it is waiting to be slaughtered.
And CEO Zheng Xiumin poured all his experience into it, only rested on Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year during the seven-day holiday, kept an eye on some work plans before the holiday, and even led Wu Jun and other managers to act as a temporary customer service hotline to help users.
And their negotiation with Taozhen failed, so Taozhen naturally withheld all the double-store owners with a total of more than 400 million funds to delay under various pretexts, in order to recover the loss of word-of-mouth and avoid a large number of merchants fleeing, during the time when Qi Na was arrested, she borrowed a total of 450 million cash from Zhenyun Real Estate, Sanyang Group and the bank to pay those merchants.
Kong Zhen said that she was funny, anyway, Lisa agreed to borrow money, and the skin of life online is still very tempting, and he doesn't have to worry about coming back if he borrows money.
450 million, this is a huge number, when signing the loan agreement, Zheng Xiumin even had a little trembling hands, but Zheng Xiumin is not stupid, her Wu Jun, Dai Xiaolan, Doris and others are not stupid, in the face of this situation, they understand that this is the only correct choice to move towards the future.
At the same time, Life Online has reached an agreement with all the merchants who have been deducted from Taozhen by the dual-store operation, and the money temporarily withheld by Taozhen will be paid to the merchant by Life Online in advance after the amount is checked, of course, the money is only temporarily lent to them, and Life Online will help them to file a lawsuit with Taozhen to get the funds back, and the litigation costs will be borne by Life Online.
Once the withheld funds are returned, merchants can return the money in a lump sum, or they can choose to repay it in instalments without any interest.
If the funds temporarily withheld by Taozhen are not returned, then the merchants do not need to return the money of Life Online.
This favorable condition made those merchants stunned, and there are such good things in the world. The only harsh condition is that the store where they live online must be open during the lawsuit, but it is specifically mentioned that if there are real difficulties, the store can be closed through the application, and if the business expands, go to other e-commerce platforms to open a store, as long as there is communication, it is also acceptable.
All liability obligations remain unaffected.
Life Online treats its own merchants with generosity and generosity, and it has not lost its reputation in this incident, but has increased its reputation, especially helping the weak and hating the same enemy, which has made the vast majority of merchants have empathy and a sense of belonging.
Of course, the media has received all kinds of news, but what they know is the actions of both sides on the surface, and a reporter immediately wrote a report: "The e-commerce rivers and lakes are surging, and the lawsuit war is about to break out!" ”
In those days, the media repeatedly publicized this invisible Internet war.
The exposure rate of life online is becoming more and more amazing, and the word of mouth is bursting, while the other party's Taozhen network, which is often inaccessible and used abnormally, has been spurned by netizens.
But the vast majority of people don't think that life online will take much advantage in this war, the standards of the entire e-commerce industry are formulated by Taozhen, accounting for nearly half of the market share, small life online, what is the capital to fight against Taozhen?
With more than 400 million in cash, it is better to do more promotion and operation than to fight this water.
However, in this noisy and chaotic world, there are always some people with unique vision, and their analysis is that Taozhen is experiencing a huge crisis.
Taozhen's operating expenses are rising, and the hidden costs under various free services have made many merchants miserable, and after the crackdown on the operation of the two stores, most merchants are even more chilled.
But Life Online stepped forward, in addition to preaching righteousness, it was also very practical and courageous, without saying a word, and paid a huge amount of money unconditionally.
People's hearts are wonderful, everyone understands one thing, especially the sellers of Taozhen, through this incident, they are taught a fact: life online has brought a threat to Taozhen, so Taozhen has torn off the mask and suppressed life online without scruples; Although Life Online is weak, it has the confidence to take out more than 400 million cash in a week, which is by no means possible for ordinary merchants; There is also righteousness, and he will never abandon his little brothers.
So if they want to leave Taozhen, then the vast growth space of life online is their inevitable choice.
For a while, no one discussed JDvs Taozhen, but Life Online vs Taozhen. It's been a wonderful transformation.
A Spring Festival holiday has given birth to many possibilities, and it takes hard work to become a reality.
And Zheng Xiumin is undoubtedly the hardest-working.
Of course, Qi Na is not below her.
During the holidays, except for a meeting with people from the Ministry of Defense and a trip back to my hometown, I spent all my spare time thinking. For example, how to make good use of the various resources of SPE browser, how to bundle with the acceleration of the Qilin Wings, and how to use the Qilin Wings to accelerate the sinking of the fourth and sixth level counties and cities.
He naturally knows that there is a huge debt pressure on the life of the company, so it is inevitable to open up sources and reduce expenditure, but the binding with the Qilin Wings is still the capital of the Qilin Wings, and the benefit is the continuous expansion of the logistics platform.
The huge potential of SPE browser is also to be developed, and Qina hopes to communicate more with Baidu and Google Chrome, and to speed up the inclusion of life online website pages and optimize them.
The benefit of this is that there will be more and more traffic through this search engine, and the quality is no worse than the search effect within the e-commerce platform.
Of course, the promise to Baidu and Google is that Life Online will continue to prioritize them in the settings of the SPE browser.
This is a two-way mutual benefit, which of course implies the use of existing market advantages to suppress opponents.
In the past, domestic Internet companies were always talking about platform construction and building a platform that accommodates countless businesses, but in the end, they will be jealous of the income of merchants and plunder the income of merchants in various ways.
This method also leads to the arbitrary, forward-looking, and systematic construction of the platform.
So is Life Online going back to this old path?
Of course, life online can also do everything yourself, everything is done by yourself, but life online in the debt of more than 400 million, a year and a half is rare to ease over, if financing, dilution of shares is not important, but VC, PE's greed makes them jealous, in the short term or will not finance, so if you are forced to do so, never take this step.
That is, to maintain one's own independence. In this way, how can the cash-strapped life online be able to do everything yourself?
Therefore, Qina decided to open the platform and build a live online APP store, where developers can obtain all kinds of life online resources for free, sort out and analyze these resources to develop apps, or redevelop apps based on these data, so that sellers and buyers can get the apps they need on this platform and get different services.
For example, a developer can obtain basic data according to the interface provided by Life Online, and develop a curve table of online shopping years, months, weeks, and days, even specific to each product. Use these analytics to help sellers do their marketing well.
Then this APP can be sold to merchants, of course, there will be many companies making this APP, so it depends on which developer's algorithm is exquisite and the analysis is in place.
The initial promotion period is twenty-eight, and the life online will take two percent.
It doesn't seem like much, but later life online will provide cloud services, and developers will inevitably purchase these cloud services in order to improve running speed and compatibility, which will also become income.
Zheng Xiumin keenly felt that the direction of the future would undergo a huge change, and they would not ask about some specific matters, but would wholeheartedly be a platform. Do cloud services.
Qi Na nodded: "Including the game platform." ”
"Then the big data mining you just mentioned involves a problem, if these data are obtained by developers with ulterior motives, this will be leaked! Buyers' privacy is compromised. Zheng Xiumin got to the heart of the matter.
"No, life online currently uses the technology of data separation, the buyer forms an order, the buyer information, the merchant product information, and the logistics information are stored separately, and the logistics information will request the buyer's information from the server, and the product information and the buyer's information are verified through a special code. They are not directly related to each other. "Now we also have to have the buyer's information transmitted to the logistics information flow and printed on the packaging bag, and in the future, we will only print one barcode for each single product, which is the code that makes a request to the data server, and these codes can only be used on the authorized smart arm," Qi explained. In this way, all buyer information will only flow on the server, and no third party will be able to obtain it, and we will only disclose the basic information of the sale, and will never open the data server of the buyer's information, so as to avoid the leakage of buyer information. ”
Zheng Xiumin carefully communicated with Qi Na and recognized his ideas, Qi Na is not only the CTO, but also the chief architect, who can always point out the direction for the website at a critical time. In the future, Life Online will abandon the long-term goal of traditional e-commerce platforms, and begin to be a platform for the Internet and the Internet of Things, and begin to integrate offline and online. It's cool to say and looks beautiful, but on the other hand, the future is uncertain. But isn't the world full of unknowns?!