Since they are reborn, they must be supported by the school beauties.

Chapter 151: Taking advantage of the situation
Chen Cheng didn't linger in the store for too long. Because he was concerned about the data on the school's intranet, he said goodbye to Su Zishan and Shen Luning and hurriedly returned to school.

When I returned to Jiangda Commercial Street, there was still a long queue in front of the printing shop.

Chen Cheng opened his laptop and checked the backend data. In just two hours, the number of registered users had exceeded seven thousand.

Most of these are IP addresses from other regions.

The social effect has already formed rapidly. If we still rely on scanning photos to attract new users, we will inevitably fall behind the pace.

However, it's unrealistic to continue expanding manpower. After all, it's impossible to satisfy all the Jiangnan University students who want their photos scanned. There are tens of thousands of people here, and if each person has two photos, the scanner will probably break down.

Scanners are worthless, but time is valuable.

He had already thought of Pinduoduo's viral marketing model, so he immediately sent an in-app message to all Jiangda University's campus network users.

The message reads: The first user acquisition competition on Renren.com has officially begun. It will start at noon tomorrow and end at noon the day after tomorrow. The person who attracts the most new users will receive a cash reward of 500 yuan; the second to fifth place will each receive 300 yuan; the sixth to tenth place will each receive 200 yuan; and the eleventh to twentieth place will each receive 100 yuan.

Note: This event is genuine and valid. New users are considered only after completing registration and updating their personal information.

Statistical method: We will count new users under the first account they follow, without duplicate counting. Please remind yourself to make sure that any new friends you invite follow your account first.

How to claim the prize: The list of winners will be announced at noon the day after tomorrow. Winners should go to the on-campus printing shop to collect their cash prizes!

Special Note: Registering multiple accounts and following other users will not be counted in the statistics, and serious violations will result in disqualification from the competition.

The famous "help cut the price" and "help help me out" features on Pinduoduo in later generations often only offered rewards of a few dozen yuan, or at most a hundred or two hundred yuan.

With just this little bit of money, a person can frantically mobilize their social network, and that's in the environment twenty years from now, where the average monthly salary is several thousand or even tens of thousands.

Chen Cheng offered rewards of 100 to 500 yuan in 2002, which greatly motivated these students.

For Chen Cheng, the platform was going to burn money in its early stages, so this small cost was just a drop in the ocean and not worth mentioning.

The reason he only sent the message to users of Jiangda University is that online payment is not yet widespread, and online platforms lack credibility in financial matters. Users from other places may not trust it, and they may not feel comfortable participating. If misunderstandings or disputes arise, it will be difficult to resolve them. He might not only fail to attract new users but also bring negative publicity to the platform.

However, the users at Jiangda University are different. They are all students of the university, and they have their own on-campus printing shop here. With a physical store as a support, they have enough credibility. They naturally believe that Jiangda University will not renege on its promises, so their enthusiasm for participating will definitely be very high.

as predicted.

Once this message was accurately pushed to every Jiangda user, these users immediately went crazy and started harassing every friend on QQ.

Soon, the number of registered users on Renren.com experienced another surge, exceeding 10,000 by around 9:00 AM.

The number of users continued to grow, but it did not put a significant strain on the server bandwidth. Chen Cheng looked at the backend data and found that new users had a very obvious characteristic: they basically did not upload photos.

Although they also have an electronic photo album function, they do not yet have any photos to upload. Moreover, apart from users like Jiangda who have already scanned their photos, the remaining users have basically not uploaded their own photos.

However, Chen Cheng soon noticed something unusual.

Around 9:10, a bandwidth usage warning suddenly appeared. Although he had generously allocated a large margin of safety, the bandwidth demand suddenly surged and was about to exceed the safety threshold.

While calling the server operator to ask them to temporarily add more bandwidth, Chen Cheng checked the bandwidth usage in the background.

Meanwhile, at the Galo Forum's office, Yang Siqi rushed in, impatiently asking Chen Wei, "How's it going? Speed ​​things up! It's already past nine o'clock, more than an hour later than our original schedule!"

Chen Wei explained, "The script is already running, but account registration is quite troublesome. Their website is rather cunning; there's a verification step that requires simple addition and subtraction within ten. This blocks the way to register accounts in bulk. We registered one by one, and it took us more than an hour to register just over two hundred accounts. But the script is already running."

Yang Siqi asked him, "What instructions is your script running right now?"

Chen Wei said, "Due to time constraints, we couldn't develop the script in great detail, so right now all the accounts on the script are constantly accessing a few fixed links."

Yang Siqi asked, "What link?"

Chen Wei said, "They would recommend an account of a girl named Yan Ruoxuan to Jiangda users. She has a lot of followers now, about three or four hundred."

"Furthermore, she uploaded five very clear photos to her album. I put the links to these five photos into the script, so now it's like all 200 of our accounts are repeatedly taking turns accessing the links to these five photos and constantly requesting the photo data."

"Yan Ruoxuan..."

Yang Siqi felt the name sounded familiar. After thinking about it carefully, she realized that it was the class monitor of the freshman Computer Science Class 3, the girl who looked a bit silly and cute.

Then he remembered that the annoying Chen Cheng seemed to be from Computer Science Class 3. Could the pure and beautiful girl he met at the printing shop today be Yan Ruoxuan?
So Yang Siqi sat down at one of the computers and opened the link to the school's intranet. He wanted to take a look at Yan Ruoxuan's personal homepage, but this damn website required registration before he could view it.

He was somewhat annoyed. After all, this was his competitor, and a cunning old fox who had plotted against him behind his back. Now he had to contribute a registered user to him, which was really a slap in the face.

Although he felt awkward, the thought of the beautiful woman who caught his eye made him feel restless, and his fingers involuntarily registered a school account.

After registering, he made up a name and selected Jiangcheng University as his school. He then saw the user list pushed to him by the system, with Yan Ruoxuan at the top.

He excitedly clicked on the photo and saw that it was indeed the beautiful woman he had seen at the print shop.

Even the clothes are exactly the same as when I saw them today. Considering that I saw a digital camera in the print shop, I figured the photo must have been taken this afternoon.

As he scrolled through Yan Ruoxuan's photos, he became infatuated. After a moment, he suddenly realized something and blurted out, "The bandwidth hasn't been affected at all! I can still open the photos on their website smoothly."

Chen Wei said helplessly, "But we are indeed already running. We can only say that his bandwidth reserves are too high. Two hundred accounts are not enough to paralyze him."

Yang Siqi gritted her teeth and cursed, "Just who is this boss? He's throwing money around like this, probably spending tens of thousands of yuan a month!"

A technician spoke up: "President Yang, they are indeed ruthless. They have launched a new user acquisition campaign, which officially starts at noon tomorrow. Whoever can get first place within one day will receive a reward of 500 yuan. In addition to one person who gets 500 yuan, there are four people who get 300 yuan each, five people who get 200 yuan each, and ten people who get 100 yuan each."

Yang Siqi was even more surprised. He slammed his mouse down and cursed angrily, "Damn it, is this guy crazy? Who the hell is throwing money at this kind of promotion? QQ has never done anything like this before!"

Chen Wei sighed, "They really are quite wealthy and powerful. I wonder what their plans are."

In 2002, internet product operations were relatively simple. Most products were focused on how to make money quickly, and very few companies spent money on promotion right away. Even QQ made a mistake. For a period of time, in order to make money, it changed the free registration of QQ accounts to paid registration. It almost got taken over by Sina UC before it quickly stopped.

For the operators of these websites or software, not charging money is already the greatest favor, so how can they possibly offer money to incentivize users?
Things you haven't seen before are hard to understand.

Just like before Didi and Kuaidi started their battle, no one thought that taking a ride could be free.

Every industry is led by pioneers who are one step ahead; the rest are basically those who realize it later.

Yang Siqi couldn't understand Chen Cheng's motives, but Chen Cheng had already discovered his underhanded tactics from behind the scenes.

Just as Chen Wei said, Yang Siqi gave him too little time; he simply couldn't develop a truly powerful attack script.

Chen Cheng simply accessed the backend data and clearly saw that most of the bandwidth was now directed to Yan Ruoxuan's personal homepage.

Although Yan Ruoxuan's account was promoted to Jiangda users by Renren.com, her album visits used to average only a little over a hundred, but now they have suddenly reached over three hundred, a surge of two hundred people.

Moreover, these two hundred people acted like a metronome, rhythmically taking turns viewing Yan Ruoxuan's five photos. It was clearly not the work of real people, but rather a script controlling the process in batches.

He didn't even need to analyze the registration IPs of these accounts to know that they were definitely the work of Yang Siqi's side.

Want to attack your own server and bandwidth?

But he certainly didn't realize that he had invested hundreds of thousands of yuan in the school's online platform, with millions more in reserve funds. How could he possibly engage in such a foolish act as using a small force to pull a heavy load in the operation of the website?

Therefore, Chen Cheng immediately pulled out these accounts and planned to ban them in batches.

But then I thought that mass banning was too pointless, so I simply put an access restriction on these accounts. When these accounts send access requests, the server simply ignores the requests.

Previously, he had been throwing punches, but the attacks were weak and I could easily withstand them. Now, I simply stopped trying to withstand them and let him continue throwing punches, but every punch I threw hit the air.

At the same time, he also added a judgment in the background: if any account accesses the album page more than 20 times at a frequency of less than three seconds each time, the server will blacklist it and ignore all its data requests, just like the previous batch of accounts.

Even if a normal user visits the album, it's impossible for them to switch between photos in less than three seconds. Moreover, each person can only upload five photos, and even those with more than one hundred followers can only upload ten. If someone visits the album page twenty times in a row, it's clearly not the behavior of a real person.

Yang Siqi was unaware that Chen Cheng was already on guard. He only thought that even the largest truck could be overloaded. Two hundred bricks wouldn't fill it, but what about two thousand? Or twenty thousand? It would eventually fill it up.

So he said to Chen Wei and the others, "Keep the script running, and you also need to keep registering new users and putting them into the script to continuously expand the user base!"

Chen Wei checked the time: "President Yang, it's already 9:30. We should be back in the dorm around 10:00. In half an hour, we can only register about a hundred more people at most."

Yang Siqi said firmly, "I've spoken to the dormitory manager and I'll be working overtime here with everyone tonight. It's just in time for them to be less vigilant at night!"

(End of this chapter)