[Southland Morning Post] personal website: struggling to survive

It is understood that Nanning is currently more active personal sites have hundreds, these sites webmaster, most of them are. These young people have a strong interest in the network, for the construction of the site, they live day and night upside down life, more than 10 hours a day on the computer. However, like many personal websites in China, most of Nanning's personal websites are moving forward in a difficult way.

Network history They are far from success

Case 1

Appearances: Zeng, Arisisi Webmaster

Input: Hardware equipment near million

Development status: Can only be maintained, spending less, making not much

Do site to be tolerant of loneliness, especially the site of only one person.

Like many personal websites, Zeng is both a boss and an employee. In the day and night upside down, Zeng a person in the struggle. Have Netizen said, understand Zeng, can understand most website stationmaster struggles hard.

Zeng's website, Arisisi, is inspired by Alibaba's website. Zeng believes that netizens, as long as they remember Alibaba, will certainly remember his Arisisi website. This is a professional engaged in web development (Web programming development) resources to download and technology sharing of personal sites, build stations more than 3 years, the day to visit users in more than 20,000 people.

"I have a great interest in the Internet. "Business and Trade Management department graduate Zeng, after graduation halfway decent, when the computer company network technician, net management, graphic designer, etc., in the work self-study a lot of technology." 2004, Zeng applied to a company to do system maintenance. The preference for the internet, let him constantly in-depth understanding, research, days long, he has sprouted the idea of creating a platform, using this platform to store their own learning and experience, with other programmers to share experience, exchange of ideas. So, he began to devote his spare time to the establishment of personal website.

At the beginning of the station, Zeng had no basis but to rely on himself. Zeng therefore self-study Web page production and programming, website development and website operation and other related knowledge, free also online with like-minded netizens exchange experience, learn the successful experience, own research, conquer website development difficulties. It is common to work more than 10 hours a day during those days.

For the growth of the website, Zeng lost his proud eyesight. In order to overcome a technical problem, for a period of time he faced the computer screen 16 hours a day. This situation lasted half a month, he looked at 20 meters of things already have a heavy shadow, and then a little further blurred, eyesight 1.5 he has become short-sighted.

More than 3 years of study and struggle, Zeng accumulated a wealth of experience, his ability, his website are constantly upgrading. This year, the Web site's development faces a new turning point: either continue to maintain the status quo, or seek a breakthrough. Considering working in the company, he could not devote himself to the operation of the website, so he decided to resign and run the website entirely.

After half a year of devotion, Zeng website traffic gradually improve, but also gradually have some income. Zeng also helps companies, businesses, or individuals register for international domain names and sell web space. Although not much money, but basically can achieve income and expenditure flat. Now, he is moving from research technology to operation and management, will devote more time to the promotion of the website, strive to transform the personal website into the industry's brand website and profit.

User evaluation:

A netizen evaluation said that the Web page open speed, links and download speed are relatively fast, but the site content is too professional, do not understand, to add something interesting, otherwise the site traffic will be limited, it is difficult to attract advertisers.

Case 2

Appearance character: Mr Véron High, the website stationmaster of the collage Nanning

Input: Hardware equipment more than 10,000 yuan

Development status: More difficult, rely on working to maintain the website operation

Interview Verongau After the end of the day, Verongau in the QQ message said, just received a website to create a live, completed, can earn hundreds of yuan. His living expenses have finally fallen off this month.

Reporter is in Nanning Mayor 堽 Village a 20 square meters of rental house to see Mr Véron high. This year, 24-Year-old Verongau is here and three friends in charge of a patchwork website. However, due to lack of funds, publicity and promotion can not keep up, his website traffic is very small, still can't attract advertisers to advertise. His three friends had to go out to work to earn a living. He was 4 years old when he met a car accident lost his left leg, although the prosthetic limb, but still give him life and find work to bring inconvenience.

Although sometimes rely on the support of friends to maintain the site, but the nature of optimistic Verongau said: "Since I chose this road, we must stick to it, even if badly beaten." He says he never treats himself as a weak man since he was a boy. Moreover, chooses to do the website, he also calculates counterparts.

Verongau graduated from a computer department in a vocational and technical college this July. This site, is Mr Véron high work when the proposed company investment establishment. Verongau, who had not graduated in mid-April, found a job at a company that was planning to invest in the web. Verongau to the leadership of the company, now some developed urban collage site (to provide shopping, collage, carpool platform) development is more mature, and Nanning similar site relatively backward, if from this aspect, may be less competition. Unfortunately, the site has just been set up, and the company decided to transform it because it found other investment projects.

"If I had followed the company, one meal a day would have been guaranteed," he said. Verongau said: "But that is not the goal I strive for." "On the second day of the company's transformation, Verongau resigned to his boss and formed a team to concentrate on the site. He believed: Tiandaochouqin.

As a webmaster Mr Véron high, in addition to responsible for the usual programming, but also the planning and external liaison work. To Verongau's delight, there is already an electronics company that is willing to work with them, offering clients and providing a platform. He wants his website to take this opportunity to commercialize and eventually transform into a comprehensive web site. "Although it has not yielded any benefits, it is a good start," he said. "Verongau said.

User evaluation:

Some netizens said, now the price is higher, nanning "spell" more active, the creation of such a site is good, but the propaganda is not enough, "this is the site I see the least traffic."

There are also netizens who said: "I have released a few of the information to respond." "We suggest organizing more activities, adding new content and attracting popularity."

Case 3

Character: agronomy, Nanning local pass Webmaster

Input: 100,000 yuan upfront investment

Development status: Meager profit, is moving towards the commercial website

When the students around the network game, Agronomy has begun to "play" the site. It was 2002, and he was just a sophomore, "because it shows a higher level of technology than online gaming."

Most of the basic knowledge of agronomy Web site is learned in Internet cafes, at that time, Internet cafes hourly fee is 4 yuan. In the meantime, agronomy with Self-Study technology, opened a simple literature website, in school quite influential.

2006, the college has not graduated from the agronomy, decided to go to Shenzhen Chuang. His invasion, let him broaden his horizons a lot. He is responsible for Web site production and maintenance in a Shenzhen training company's website. In that company, he learned how to promote the website and how to make it produce benefits and other related knowledge.

In that network company for 7 months or so, agronomy with the judgment of the Internet prospects, feel that they build a website may have better prospects for development. Driven by this idea, he started to build his own website while working.