Oblog Webmaster Interview series ①: Darling blog Rain Treasure

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"Your melancholy eyes, the sparse hu stubble ... Are deeply fascinated by me. "Domestic Erik Paint in this line is absolutely suitable for rain treasure, art teacher's occupation makes him look very artistic." This temperament is also reflected in his creation of the beloved blog network.

Rain Treasure, 97 contact with the computer, 2000 began to surf the internet, the first time in 2004 heard what is a blog, and girlfriend in the network to know, together to build a floating, pet bed, such as the name of the forum, that is, the predecessor of the beloved blog. December 2004, The Darling blog was officially born. Later enabled the top-level domain name, and then the girlfriend upgraded to become a wife.

And rain treasure's talk time starts from 1:30 A.M., this time BSP stationmaster most on-line. Ask if he is free now, two minutes later received a reply: "Can, while working while chatting." The visit began.

The first question is "when do you decide to be a darling blogger?" Why do you want to do BSP? "Rain Treasure's answer is simple and gratifying:" Two years ago, began to be interested. ”

I'm cursed, damn it! Who started to do the BSP because of the VC ah, the answer is too simple. In the bullying, rain treasure added: "Very accidental opportunity, before doing a forum, find blog better than the forum operation, do this." ”

Asked why the name of the Darling, what the reason, rain Bao said the darling of the name is daughter-in-law to take, "Darling is to let those in the reality is not favored people in the darling get favor and kindness to treat." "This is the favorite blog network core competitiveness, as for what template is more and more beautiful, the player skin good-looking, etc. are all appearances."

Speaking of the early days of the difficulties, as a direct ask him where to get the server, because this is the vast majority of personal BSP webmaster pain root. Darling of the server early was funded by others, rain Bao said it is not so he did not do down the confidence and determination. Later, with more and more data, free programs and virtual host can not support, do not want to incriminate others, only to buy their own servers.

Relative to other personal BSP Stationmaster, Darling's starting point has been very smooth, although this still goes down many times. "When the station hangs up, I feel that there is nothing bentou alive," said Yu Bao. But fortunately all survived, fortunately, the beloved users of the site is also very emotional. Rain treasure is still in the user's problem and distressed. He said the pet bottleneck is that the user is not optimized, the level of the user group is not rich enough, the lack of high-end users.

Most of the favorite users are students, meaning that the value of the site advertising is very low, the financial situation is not improved. When asked if there is no money or technical problems, he said: "The difficulty is big, now it seems to be losing money, technology is not." ”

This undoubtedly poured cold water on the personal BSP. The ad revenue of Darling Blog net is high in similar website, can still not achieve break-even. Rain Bao said now just want to not pay too much, insist on doing it. As for the commercialization of the plan, now dare not think, just want to do a good job. This is the current majority of personal BSP webmaster voice.

When talking about the construction of the station is particularly memorable things, rain treasure can not think of an insightful answer. After all, do the site is not to shoot Korean dramas, even if prompted him there is no user leukemia people donate such things. His answer, too, was "yes, but the few who supported it." ”

The only thing that impressed him was the days of working with designers and making templates every day. The only thing that got him excited was the popularity of summer July and August, when more than 1000 logs were added every day, with more than 500 new users registering their favorite blogs and player services. Although and Sina such a portal blog than trivial, but in the domestic tens of thousands of personal BSP Webmaster, can make most people envy.

Unfortunately, with the advent of the September, users usually have to go to school, only the weekend to have time to surf the internet, the popularity of a slump in half, this is now to make rain treasure distressed. The bigger blow is that the Darling player, with its huge effort and resources, has been completely crushed by the heavy load. This ordeal let him close to despair, in order to save this player, rain treasure 48 hours did not sleep in the room to stay up all night debugging. The image is also directly approaching the star of the Week in Kung Fu (see photo).

The last time I had this feeling was probably the Darling podcast scam. A few months ago someone to find a rain bao cooperation, together to build a podcast site, by the rain bao solely responsible for the operation. Just as the site flourishing, the boss suddenly evaporate, the domain name transfer, the moment all the password was changed, the authority was withdrawn, the contract agreement on the Commission is all in vain. Though it was a long time, he was still gnashing his teeth at the mention of the matter.

The above twists and turns is only the Treasure Building Darling blog Nearly two years, a small part of more happy sadness hidden in his heart, hidden in his sigh of stubble ...

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