Success cannot be copied, but success has similarities. For example: persistence, perseverance, wisdom, loneliness. I believe there are many successful people in the forum. They have put in a lot of work and effort, and have eaten instant noodles for many years. Successful people in the forum introduce their experiences, tell stories of suffering, and inspire fighting spirit as winners. But today, I am not a winner, because I have not achieved as much success as them; at the same time, I am not a loser, because I have wisdom and creativity. Then I will talk to you as a prepared winner.
I started making websites in 2002, when I was still in high school. My English skills are relatively good. When I was a freshman in high school, I started chatting with foreigners in ICQ, Yahoo English chat rooms and other places. Once when I was browsing foreign websites, I accidentally discovered a place where I could apply for free space, so I applied for a free space. I remember that the configuration of that space is very low, 300M space and 20G traffic. At that time, I didn’t know what php, asp, mysql, etc. were, so I hardly used this space after I applied for it. I just uploaded some simple HTML language web pages, wrote some self-introduction, sent a few pictures, and happily invited classmates. When we came to see it, we felt very proud.
Later, free forums began to appear on the Internet. The first one I remember was provided by topzj. The speed was okay, but it was overwhelmingly filled with advertisements, which was very ugly. I applied for one and used it for about half a year. Finally, I couldn't stand the ads and finally decided to give up.
Later, there were various websites called Changlai.com, and they began to provide free forums. That forum program seemed to be developed by them themselves. The page was not very nice, but the advantage was that it had no ads and was very fast, so I applied for one and started building a website. I had many friends and my classmates listened to me, so I introduced them to register. Later, this forum became a place where hundreds of us often communicate. The number of posts per day is over 300, and each post receives thousands of clicks. Maybe some of you still vaguely remember that at that time, there was a registered user with a very famous ID on the free forum of Changlai.com, called "Wancai Yunnan", and that was me. When the number of registered users was about to exceed 10,000, Changlai.com closed the free forum service and the data could not be backed up. We no longer had a place to communicate like this.
Later, after learning from the experience, I decided not to use free forums anymore. Through someone's introduction, I found the homepage of a domestic forum program provider and downloaded a set of free PHP forum source code. The version number at that time was only V5.5.0. I uploaded it to the free space I applied for, and officially started my website building career. . As everyone knows about free space, domain names are extremely long and complex. My domain name at the time was: bangzhu.byethost14.com (now inaccessible). At that time, I didn’t know that I could purchase a top-level domain name, and I didn’t have any money. But the interest in making the website is very high, it needs to be updated every day, and all of them are original.
This time I am making an interactive forum, which means that in addition to the usual posts and comments, there is also an important function, that is, you can ask anything you want to ask on the forum, and others will answer it, and then you will be rewarded with points.
The forum does not have many sections, only 12, but each section is carefully designed to ensure no duplication and to gather popularity. Because I have no intention of building a big forum like Tianya. My goal is to communicate and help each other. At that time, I was very simple and felt that helping others would be very happy, and such forums could really help others solve their problems.
It just so happened that I graduated from high school and entered college. I had plenty of time, so I invited others to register and ask questions. Sometimes people ask questions that I don’t know, and if there are no answers to these questions, I will search around, or ask others, and then answer them. I remember once spending a whole night typing a few thousand words to answer the question, and the person was very moved. In short, I rarely copy and paste when answering questions. Instead, I type the answer after thinking about it or asking others. The forum is developing very rapidly. If you want to ask me what my daily IP is and what my daily PV is, I can only say, I'm sorry, I don't know.
At that time, the website was not as eager for quick success as it is now. The most important thing was that I didn't know that there was a statistical tool that could help me understand the number of visits to the forum. I don’t know when statistics stations like cnzz and 51la came online. But I know that every time I refresh my forum, there are new registered users. One time my classmates came to look for me in the dormitory. I was on the forum, and we refreshed it every 10 seconds. Every time we refreshed the forum, there were a few more registered members.
He couldn't close his mouth. That was the most successful time I've ever had. Until now, every time he talks about college life on QQ, he will mention that incident. Finally, I still remember this date very much. It was July 19, 2004. The weather was very hot. That evening, the number of registered members of the forum reached 280,000. You read that right, with 280,000 registered members, I witnessed with my own eyes the moment when this miracle happened. Then I invited a few classmates to have a big meal at a barbecue stall outside, which was a consolation to myself for eating instant noodles for several weeks (it wasn't that I didn't have money to eat, it was that I didn't have time to eat). There are 280,000 registered members and about 3,000 main posts every day. If you want to ask me how much my daily income is? I can only tell you, sorry, no.
At that time, the website was not as eager for quick success and quick profit as it is now. The most important thing was that I didn’t know that there was another way to make money, which was to apply for a code from an advertising alliance and then place it. Moreover, the free space comes with a large Google advertisement at the top of the space. The bad news soon came. One day I opened the forum and found that I could no longer access it. I quickly wrote an email in English to the administrator of the free space to ask. After waiting day and night, the other party responded to the email and said that the traffic had been used up and I would not be able to continue accessing it until next month.
It was only the 14th that day, so it was still early before the end of the month. So we waited day and night again. Next month, the forum finally opened, but the second bad news came. The database is not enough, what should I do? I gritted my teeth and deleted all the older posts. Don't laugh at me, I don't even know what mysql is or how to back up and restore it. I still remember that I went to the forum provider and posted a post asking how to transfer the forum. That post was made on April 4, 2006, and is still there. http://www.phpwind.net/read-htm-tid-179359.html
If you want to ask me, how many of my forums were included in Baidu at that time, I know what I can say, sorry, I don’t know. At that time, website building was not as quick and quick as it is now. I had never searched for my own website on Baidu, mainly because I didn’t know where to site it. But what I know is that I used Alexa to check the second-level domain name ranking, and my site ranked first.
Next, the third bad news came. My website was hung up and automatically jumped to a completely unfamiliar website 15 seconds later. I quickly checked the source code using ftp and found that there was an extra piece of JS code in each file, so I quickly deleted it. Finally, the fourth bad news was the biggest blow to my website. The IP where my website was located was blocked. At that time, there was no concept of being blocked, and you couldn’t access it anyway. After checking, it turned out that someone was using free space to build a political website, and my website was also affected. At that time, I didn’t know how to use ****, so I could only think of a way, thinking in my mind, I couldn’t access it domestically, but I could always access it overseas. I was still thinking about finding a friend abroad to help me transfer the data. I happened to have a classmate studying abroad, so I felt a little relieved during those days.
One day I received an email: Free space to change the database, which means that the database was created by myself in the past, and the library name was set by myself. Now it needs to be uniformly converted to the b_XXXXXXXX (number) mode. By the time I learned the proxy technology, when I went to visit my website, it was no longer accessible. Sure, the database and user name have been changed. But there is still hope, because the database can be transferred. At this time, I had learned a lot of skills, opened phpadmin with ease, and found that the database was empty. Startled. I quickly wrote an email to ask the admin, and the other party responded quickly this time: Since there has been no visits for half a year, the database has been automatically cleared. and cannot be restored.
Since then, the main site of this website has never been opened again. What website did I build later? What is certain is that it was not the Asian website I am running now. What kind of stories did I have later? I have to write them next time, otherwise everyone will be annoyed by them. Now I have opened a new forum, the address is http://bbs.yazhou.in , everyone is welcome to guide me.