This year's ups and downs-visit Chinese guest Song Chenlei

Song Chenlei (like insects and not insects), members, 2000 contact with the Internet, made a more ideal forum, 2005 cooperation in the business of the rental, to commercial operations, Guangdong, China's customer science and technology IDC department manager.

Sniper: 1 years have not talked about, over the past, your mood will certainly not like, this year the biggest experience is what?
Song Chenlei: My biggest experience of the year has been: IDC needs to understand

Sniper: Why is there such a feeling? Now the most heard is that IDC needs to be understood, what do you think is the cause of such a cry? Perhaps a lot of people do not understand IDC, that since the profit industry, it is understandable to bear a lot of things.

Song Chenlei: Many people have such a vague view of you, you can say, now for the individual IDC has no profiteering. This year since the emergence of the price of cabbage, hard disk price space can reflect this point. And we are the same as others, lower prices and lower prices. Before the trend of the rental is we do, now pay 599, 699 of the machine is also the trend we do. We make more cost-effective products on a larger scale. But a lot of individual IDC, in my understanding, the industry, unless the size of some large foreign IDC, it is difficult at that price to ensure the continued operation of profits.

Bad price has become a common problem in the current IDC, in the bad price environment, many IDC service providers are
Can not protect the interests of personal webmaster, it is empty talk.

Sniper: According to you, in such a big environment, now the Chinese guests to a real bottleneck? I remember what you said, the pressure has been there, but as long as the user's site is recognized by others, you will feel very relieved. Do you feel like you're back in the ideal state?

Song Chenlei: The understanding I'm talking about, for example, is that your company sells virtual hosts for one or 10 units. There is a good chance that you won't see any bad talk about the company anywhere. But when the machine is hundreds of units, it is difficult to control the speech. As we now have more than 200 rental servers, one of them has a problem. It is likely that one of the users to the main webmaster forum post denounced. Many people see only the problem, not the remaining stable operation of more than 200 units. Server machine is also a truth.

In fact, the Chinese guests have been developing very quickly, but we have been in control of the pace of development. You can't eat big fat in a mouthful. We will continue to expand our business with full assurance of our current customer satisfaction.

Sniper: is the guest still eating the IDC business to eat and rent? Is there any new development path, such as you have previously promoted the Chinese blog search, "sex" search and other items of products, is the service intention has changed or said that some things with your original entrepreneurial thinking is not the same?

Song Chenlei: The most impressive is our IDC business. The most relevant project with personal Webmaster is IDC. In fact, in addition to IDC, our blog search, sex search and recently launched, for personal webmaster Investment VC projects have been in normal operation. There's just something that's not up to our expectations, so it hasn't been a big effort to advertise. But each project also has a certain effect.

Sniper: You mentioned just now, for individual webmaster Investment VC project, this thing is more strange, the project of the individual webmaster development what help? Now the Web2.0 basically is applauded not draw, many people can hardly find their own profit point, VC is sure to let some sites survive, but after all, VC also need money, in such an environment, how do you see the webmaster this circle, you think the hot spot where the investment can be.

Song Chenlei: In my 7 years of contact with the Internet, I think it is not too much to say that the Internet is gold. The network has produced many new generation billionaires. One or several people rely on their own online discovery opportunities, ideas to the road to wealth. There are many such examples in the people I know. But some people because the money problem cannot let the project continue to develop, even many projects are aborted in the cradle. So we launched a personal Webmaster Investment VC Project. The current maximum limit for a single project is 1 million yuan. We hope to be able to produce a lot of cooperation with individual stationmaster.

Sniper: Then you change from a personal webmaster to IDC, what do you think is the industry that you are willing to share to personal webmaster, or what things want to remind personal webmaster. Especially on this piece of the business of renting.

Song Chenlei: If each machine is paid monthly in the first year, it earns 20% more. If all are years, earn property rights + 1000 or less. Really want long-term stability to do down the IDC, are willing to spend money on hardware equipment. A good rental hardware, about 7000. And some double to strong so-called 20 people together rent, calculate sales price, even a hardware can not buy. Such a combination of rent, either conceal the real hardware configuration, or use second-hand accessories. They're the real black-hearted business.

Sniper: That for the personal owners choose to rent the room, you have any good suggestions do not.

Song Chenlei: In the choice of computer room, for personal webmaster My suggestion is to choose the backbone of the city around the room. For example, Guangzhou is the backbone everyone knows. But the price of Guangzhou Telecom Room is afraid that few individual stationmaster is willing to bear. But the surrounding Shantou, Shunde, Dongguan, Shenzhen in my test with the Guangzhou network almost no difference, if you must say there is a difference, that is 1 per thousand. But the price is about half as low.

For the market now a lot of cabbage price, hard disk price space. I personally do not recommend buying. The cost of the server is placed there. A common P4 server + hosting and maintenance costs, as well as the space panel software costs. My concept, how to compress the cost is also more than million yuan. If a 1G space sales price within 200 yuan or even 100 yuan. If not IDC's promotional activities, but long-term sales prices. I can hardly imagine a server like this running stably. can withstand so much (in their profitable stand-alone space sales) the operation of space.

Sniper: Oh, thank you Chen Lei give us these things, let me personally on the rental of some things also understand a lot. One day, I hope Chen Lei return to the ranks of personal webmaster, but also to a grassroots breakthrough.

Song Chenlei: Oh, I wish you all have a reassuring home on the network, thriving business!