E-Ladies: Navigating the Wired World-Chapter 53 - Episode 53 Hitting a Bottleneck Right From the Start

Chapter 53: Episode 53: Hitting a Bottleneck Right From the Start, How to Make Money 2

Chapter 53: Episode 53: Hitting a Bottleneck Right From the Start, How to Make Money 2

Although Zhou Xueyin didn’t have high expectations for the magazine driving traffic, after all, a thin camel is bigger than a horse, and even a declining paper magazine had a larger user base than their newly operational forum!

On the 10th, the day the magazine was released, the registration volume for that single day almost caught up with the registrations of the previous two months.

In just a few hours, nearly 100 people registered, which was truly beyond their expectations.

In the following days, there were always a good number of people registering, posting, and actively enlivening the forum’s atmosphere.

Even the new homepage, which had been ignored, saw its click count soar dramatically during these few days.

“Yinyin, Yinyin! A netizen complimented our forum’s theme for looking good!” Yao Shanshan said happily.

“Yinyin, Yinyin! Our user registrations have broken through 1000 people!” Kang Siyin shouted excitedly.

“Yinyin, Yinyin! The makeup thread I posted has over 50 floors of discussion!” Li Jiniang was so excited she was close to crying.

“Comrades! Our homepage’s click count has finally broken a thousand!” Zhou Xueyin, witnessing the rapidly soaring data, profoundly felt that their hard work over the past two months hadn’t been in vain.

However, before she had time to celebrate the dramatic growth curve, Zhou Xueyin suddenly realized that the concurrent online user count, which should have grown alongside, remained very stable at 200 people per day.

This was extremely strange; according to the web retention rate of one-third for registered and active users, there should have been at least 300 people online at the same time.

The eerily stable figure of 200 concurrent users indeed seemed odd.

“Yinyin, did we increase capacity when we renewed the contract last time?” Kang Siyin also found the data peculiar.

“Increase capacity? Damn! Oh no! I was so focused on renewing that I forgot to increase capacity! No wonder we can’t seem to break past 200…” Zhou Xueyin wished she could knock herself out with tofu—for how could she forget such a crucial matter!

Without delay, Zhou Xueyin quickly opened Wanwang’s homepage and found customer service.

Zhou Xueyin: Hello, I have a question to ask.

Customer Service: Please go ahead.

Zhou Xueyin: So, it’s like this. We still have some time before we need to renew our virtual host service, but…

Customer Service: But you’re saying that your website’s current concurrent online user count has exceeded the package’s capacity, so you’re considering increasing capacity ahead of time?

Wow! You can’t help but admire customer service; before I could even say what I wanted, customer service already made a suggestion. That’s impressive!

Zhou Xueyin: Exactly, that’s right. So, I wanted to ask if it’s possible to increase capacity ahead of time?

Customer Service: Of course! Based on your website’s current daily concurrent access requests, I suggest you expand to accommodate 1000 concurrent users.

Zhou Xueyin: How many? 1000 people? Our site only has just over 1000 registered users…

Is this person trying to meet their own performance targets and trick me into spending more money? Zhou Xueyin wondered suspiciously.

Customer Service: I suggest you look at the analysis under your own Wanwang ID for your website’s current status. I believe it will help you with your decision to increase capacity.

It was only after seeing what customer service had written that Zhou Xueyin realized she had only been looking at the forum’s backend data and had completely neglected Wanwang’s analysis of the website.

Obediently, she opened the website analysis and saw that on the day of the magazine’s release, the peak of concurrent access requests had reached over 3000!

The main traffic came from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen—these cities known for their well-developed internet…

Basing on Wanwang’s estimated average traffic and her own calculations, Zhou Xueyin finally decided to follow the customer service’s suggestion and increase capacity to 1000 concurrent users and the space to 500MB.

Under the guidance of customer service, Zhou Xueyin performed the capacity increase directly through the website. This should be enough to manage for a while now…

Customer Service: May I inquire if you’ve considered leasing a server directly?

Zhou Xueyin: Starting up is tough. Just increasing space and capacity has already used up a sizeable chunk of our startup funds… We’ll consider a server once we’ve made our first significant earnings.

Zhou Xueyin said this with some apprehension. Of course, leasing a server directly would be great, but so would the cost! But to invest the remainder of their funds into server rental—Zhou Xueyin, even with her willingness to take risks, had to think it through thoroughly.

After all, when they would make their first significant earnings remained uncertain.

Whether they could earn back the startup funds within a year was not something she could dictate.

That server would have to wait as something to yearn for… freeweɓnovel.cѳm

After resolving the server capacity issue, the count of concurrent users on the forum instantly surged to around 600-700 people.

Many netizens also mentioned that they enjoyed the forum, but often, while refreshing, they’d get a message saying the user limit had been reached, asking them to try again later.

If the website couldn’t load, they couldn’t contact the admin, so neither Kang Siyin nor Zhou Xueyin were aware of this issue.

Thankfully, the ever eager Zhou Xueyin checked the forum data every day, and whenever something felt off, she’d diligently seek answers.

This issue with the visitor limit was also quickly resolved thanks to her vigilance, otherwise, who knows how many users could have been lost.

After briefing Ya Rui about the magazine’s impact on traffic, she too was surprised by how effective it had been. Her previous concerns vanished as she confidently accepted the content provided by Zhou Xueyin and her team.

Kang Siyin, Li Jiniang, and Yao Shanshan had already bought their train tickets home for early November, with gifts and luggage all prepared.

As everyone was discussing where to go and what to eat when they returned home and what to bring back to Beijing for Zhou Xueyin,

Jiang Chunming, who hadn’t been in touch with Zhou Xueyin for a while, suddenly called her: “Hello? Xiaozhou, right? This is Jiang Chunming!”

“Chunming? It’s been a long time! What’s up?” Zhou Xueyin was quite surprised.

“I’ve got a small case here. Are you interested in taking it?” Jiang Chunming said casually, making it sound like it wasn’t a particularly difficult job.

“Definitely! We’ll take any job you recommend!” Zhou Xueyin agreed without hesitation, and only after committing did she remember to inquire, “Is this case tough? There are only four of us; can we handle it?”

“Nope! I’ve been following your forum, and with your current level, taking this case should be a piece of cake!” Jiang Chunming’s words acted like a shot of adrenaline, and Zhou Xueyin was overjoyed to hear them.

“Alright then, what do we need to do for this case? Tell me about it.”

“I’ll send the client’s requirements to your email,” Jiang Chunming briefly explained the client’s background, “The client is a small jewelry business I invested in. They want to run both online and offline promotions. See what kind of plans you can come up with.”

“Sure, we’ll look into it.” It was their first gig, and whether they could handle it or deliver results, Zhou Xueyin was unsure.

If the requirements were too complex, they would respectfully decline… because reputation in the industry is important.

Opening the email from Jiang Chunming, she read aloud softly, “The task is to coordinate an online and offline campaign around the Christmas theme, highlighting the products; the online part must drive traffic to the purchase link. Offline, help design product brochures. Needs to be ready by December…”