Data security of the most valuable m-fold network: To help users save money in the end of the net

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With many of the hard to do the electric business platform for entrepreneurs compared to the 25-Year-old began to fight in the field of Zhang Lianglun appears calmly a lot. This year, the meter folding net turnover will be expected to show several times growth.

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Whether it is a rebate site, or a shopping guide site, have encountered "easy to touch the ceiling" of the criticism. But the speed with which the Zhang Lianglun the development of the network proves the huge growth space of this business model. They also get the IDG tens a round of capital injections. This April, the iOS version of the M-fold network and Android version have been online. To Zhang Lianglun's delight: Although it is a rough interface of the app, but one months to develop more than 100,000 users, but also get the Apple Store free recommendation.

It is Mushroom street, Beautiful said, M-fold network, such as shopping guide the rapid development of the website, alarmed Ma. Last year, Ma Yun said at the internal meeting: Do not support the upstream shopping site to continue to expand, and do not support the return of the site. Zhang Lianglun's business was pushed to the forefront in an instant.

"The reason that the shopping-guide website can enter the discernment of Ma Yun, it shows that this business is big enough, even let them have a sense of crisis." This means that the shopping guide is in the box. Ma Yun words and failed to block the trend of the development of shopping guide mode. Now, the meter fold nets slowly reduce the dependence on Taobao, gradually with Jingdong, No. 1th Store, only the goods will be Taobao outside the electricity business cooperation. At present, reached the cooperation of the online shopping malls already more than 600. M-fold network comprehensive ranking in the rebate category of the top three sites.

First Bucket of gold

Meter Folding Network was founded in August 2011, the founding team is typical of Ali origin. CEO Zhang Lianglun before entrepreneurship for Alibaba Wang shop responsible. Co-founder is divided into other Zhang Lianglun in Ali colleagues Yujiaje, Central Tech alumni Ke Yao.

Zhang Lianglun's entrepreneurial path is a smooth ride. Have not registered the company, then the angel investors injected capital. Company was founded not a year, but also favored by IDG. This is the start of the meter folding Net Foundation.

Meter folding nets gathered a large number of nets to buy homes and businesses, members through the meter folding network shopping, meter folding network can be a certain proportion of the sale of the sales commission, meter folding net commission back to the members, so as to save money for the user, for the business marketing for the common win purpose. The maximum rebate of consumers can reach 50%. Even if the goods are not rebate can still allow users to enjoy a maximum of 1% of the rice discount allowance.

Also doing the rebate business of the 51 rebate network set up in 2006, earlier than the M-fold network 5 years time. When it comes to why the meter-folding net has such a fast pace of development, Zhang Lianglun's answer is: luck. "If we do rebate website this year, we certainly can't do it." In the 2011, we just stepped on the point of the development of the CLP to help users solve the demand for online shopping to save money, which is normal for our team.

Internet entrepreneurship "only fast and not broken." Zhang Lianglun took less than 3 months to get the first 100,000 users. Meter folding nets The early days, Zhang Lianglun let consumers, hit the "Return of high, fast, low threshold" slogan. Ordinary rebate website to 5% rebate, meter folding net can return to 10%. Rebate business requirements of 50 yuan to be able to mention, in the meter fold net lower rebate threshold, the account has 1 yuan of money that day can be mentioned. The move has made the meter-folding network rapidly developing 100,000 of users. To this end, Zhang Lianglun also take risks, for users to advance a lot of money to return.

In response to the rare high strength rebate of rice folding nets, many users are skeptical. "One day to help a user save hundreds of dollars," a lot of blood will be able to struggle to understand the arrival of the rice folding net to get more stimulation. In fact, at that time many users are relying on Word-of-mouth communication development.

These 100,000 users, for the upcoming Taobao "Double 11" to lay the user base. Add "Double 11" before, their marketing work done quite in place, 2011 "Double 11" day, the meter folding net water reaches more than 50 million yuan, they get more than 10 million yuan of commission from Taobao.

Data security is the most valuable

M-fold nets and their first server

The end of 2011, the establishment of several months of Zhang Lianglun for the challenge Taobao "double 11" to prepare. In addition to the traffic that is about to grow massively, protecting the data security of the user is the most important thing for the business that deals with "money".

On the hardware side, they are ready to purchase the first server.

Before purchasing the server, Zhang Lianglun was very cautious. It requires good performance, high stability and affordable price. To this end, he also deliberately find Ali's old colleagues-a system architect to consult. After consulting CTO Yujiaje, they eventually bought a Dell server Dell R420 with the highest cost performance. The three founders were very excited and took photographs of themselves. So far, three photos with the first server photo also posted on the photo wall most eye-catching position. Unexpectedly, this server made a contribution during the "double 11" period.

In fact, the acquisition of the server is prepared. Although the company has not been established for a long time, but the business volume and traffic flow are growing steadily. "' Double 11 ' user congestion, traffic explosion, the server must bring a lot of pressure." Zhang Lianglun's worries are justified.

Initially, the meter fold net user is young, renting a virtual host is enough. "It's not clear at first how big the company can be and no money to buy a server." But slowly found that the virtual host service Providers Limited services, a lot of demand is difficult to meet.

During that time, "CSDN, Renren 5 million user password leaked" event to strengthen the Zhang Lianglun of data security attention. "Much of our data is about money. Hackers will stare at the site's money to steal user accounts. We may pay a heavy price if there is a problem of theft. "This puts a higher demand on the data security of the M-fold network."

The most valuable thing in the enterprise is not all kinds of network hardware, but the business data stored in the network. For data security, Dell has the relevant server data security program. Coupled with the flow, data backup, background stability, cost-effective and other all-round consideration, Zhang Lianglun finally decided to purchase a Dell server.

Subsequently, Zhang Lianglun spent only a year, the average monthly sales to achieve billion. They continue to purchase second, third, and even more Dell servers.

"Dell's aftermarket response is very timely. We don't know how to use the server at the earliest, they also send people to tutor. Entrepreneurial companies are very concerned about server excellent after-sales service. M-fold network began to purchase Dell's R420, but also because of this product model can be cost-effective at a higher price of the rapid formation of the server cluster, while the standard technical support and optional emergency dispatch, so that enterprises in the server hardware problems when the first time to get Dell's professional support.

For a while, the meter-folding server is offline several times a day and needs to be restarted repeatedly. The technician called Dell to find a solution, and the other party gave a number of troubleshooting plans, but eventually found that it was not a problem with the Dell server, but that the server itself was configured with errors. This is to help the rice folding nets to solve the urgent need.

Zhang Lianglun Frankly, first cut into the shopping guide field, has also had a worry about the business model. But along the way, multiplying business data is the best illustration of the problem. M-fold network to do micro-innovation every day, including reducing the user's rebate operation steps, increase order tracking accuracy, speed up the rebate processing speed. Their current line of business includes shopping rebates, coupons, group buying, shopping sharing and other one-stop money-saving services designed to help users save money in the end.