Chapter 279 Please Two Beautiful Reporters Be Bolder

Before the launch of Yahoo Singapore in the early morning of October 12, the US Yahoo website put a large eye-catching advertisement on the homepage of the website a week in advance, "Yahoo Singapore will be launched at 12 noon on October 11, local time in the United States", and set up a "countdown timer" to display the time.

In Singapore, the Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao both published the news that Yahoo Singapore would be launched for trial operation at 12 am on October 12 on October 10.

Under the advice of Dr. Pan Zhanlong, Yahoo Singapore also adopted the latest Apache HTTP Server technology at the time, which is an open source software based on the Linux operating system.

This technology was developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Apache Server technology is an open source option other than Netscape Web Server, which surpasses other Unix-based HTTP servers in terms of functionality and speed.

Apache Server is fast, reliable and can be extended through a simple API. Perl/Python interpreters can be compiled into the server to create a Web server visited by millions of people every day.

After Li Xiaofan delivered a speech at the Singapore SME Association last Sunday, October 8, by noon on October 11, in just three days, 825 local businesses in Singapore had come to the Singapore SME Association and directly to request the creation of independent web pages.

Li Xiaofan and Pan Zhanlong directed more than 100 part-time international students to work all night to rush to create web pages for these 825 businesses. Fortunately, the requirements of the businesses at that time were relatively low, and the web pages mainly displayed pictures and texts, so a lot of time was basically spent on editing pictures and entering texts.

Everyone worked hard and finally completed the creation of the web pages of these 825 businesses before the launch of Yahoo Singapore in the early morning of October 12.

Li Xiaofan also posted a post on Cfido

S Discussion in China a week in advance, announcing the news that Yahoo Singapore would be launched in the early morning of October 12, and told everyone that a "Chinese Forum" was specially opened in the "Lion City

S Forum" of Yahoo Singapore, and everyone was welcome to post and chat.

Late at night on October 11, all the staff of Yahoo Singapore worked overtime all night. Li Xiaofan, Pan Zhanlong, Gu Qijun and others waited nervously in front of the office computer in Singapore Science Park, waiting for the midnight website to be launched.

Desha also stayed with Li Xiaofan and his team to work overtime, and helped Li Xiaofan and his team buy cold beer and coffee, fried chicken legs, fried noodles, sausages, peanuts and other midnight snacks.

With the "Yahoo Singapore Station Launch Countdown: 10, 9, 8..." on the Yahoo US website

At midnight on October 11 in Singapore, 12 noon on the 11th in the United States, Li Xiaofan gave an order, and all the servers of Yahoo Singapore Station were put into operation, and the domain name resolution of Yahoo Singapore website began to take effect!

Li Xiaofan and Pan Zhanlong each held a can of Tiger beer and stared at the number of visits to the website displayed on the computer screen.

1232, 1698, 3782, 8765, 11237…

Five minutes later, Desha was the first to exclaim: “Oh my god, 10,000!”

The computer screen showed that the number of online visits from all over the world on the Yahoo website had exceeded 50,000!

The registered population of Singapore in 1995 was 3.5 million. According to the latest data from Singtel, the number of computers with Internet access is just over 100,000.

Li Xiaofan estimated that many of the more than 50,000 visits may come from countries and regions outside Singapore, because the daily hits of the Yahoo website in the United States have exceeded 10 million, which should be the effect of the traffic diversion of the Yahoo website in the United States.

At this time, Dr. Pan Zhanlong was most worried about whether the server could withstand such a large number of visits. He was most afraid of downtime.

Fortunately, with the experience of Yahoo in the United States and the guidance of their senior engineers, the Singapore Yahoo station was well prepared in advance. The server and website of the Singapore Yahoo station designed by them could withstand up to one million visits at the same time.

Half an hour later, the number of online visitors to the Yahoo Singapore website reached 110,000, which has exceeded the total number of all computers in Singapore that can access the Internet, which is 100,000.

At 1 a.m., the number of simultaneous online visitors to Yahoo Singapore reached an astonishing 160,000.

At this time, the number of registered users of the Lion City

S Forum also exceeded the 2,000 mark. Li Xiaofan estimated that the 2,000 registered users should be mainly local Singaporeans.

After registering on the Lion City

S Forum, these 2,000 netizens were very active. Many of them immediately entered the

S Forum to post and try out new things. The various topics in the

S Forum were very lively.

Li Xiaofan gave himself the nickname "F1lee" in the Lion City

S Forum. When he was posting on the

S Forum to start a discussion and participate in various popular topics, his mobile phone rang.

The first call was from Xu Manli, a reporter from Singapore's Straits Times.

The second call was from Yang Meiqian, a reporter from Lianhe Zaobao.

Both reporters came to interview Li Xiaofan about the launch of the Singapore Yahoo website at midnight. Both Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao had reserved space in advance to report on the grand opening of the Singapore Yahoo website.

After receiving the call, Li Xiaofan asked them all the same question: "Guess how many simultaneous online visits our Singapore Yahoo site had in the first hour after it was launched?"

"Five thousand?" Xu Manli guessed.

Li Xiaofan said in disgust: "Too few, Reporter Xu, you look down on our Yahoo Singapore station so much!"

"10,000?" Xu Manli continued to guess.

Li Xiaofan laughed and said: "Haha, too little!"

"20,000?"

"Haha, it's still too little. Reporter Xu, you can be a little more courageous!" Li Xiaofan encouraged.

"30,000?"

"Haha, there's still a distance, be bolder!"

Because Xu Manli knew that the number of computers with Internet access in Singapore was one hundred thousand, so she didn't dare to guess higher.

"Fifty thousand?" Xu Manli guessed 50,000 and basically didn't dare to report any more figures.

Finally, Li Xiaofan smiled and said: "Okay, it's already so late. Reporter Xu, in order not to affect your publication and your sleep. Let me reveal this data. At one o'clock in the morning, the number of online visits to our Yahoo Singapore site reached 161,000. Now it’s 172,000! I personally estimate that this may be the traffic effect of the American Yahoo website, and global netizens may be new to the newly established Singapore site of the American Yahoo website..."

When two female reporters, Xu Manli and Yang Meiqian, heard the numbers reported by Li Xiaofan, they were deeply shocked and exclaimed: "Wow, my God, 160,000, which is more than half the number of Internet users in Singapore! This is too amazing. Yes, the traffic of your website is very valuable. Director Li, congratulations on winning the first battle of Yahoo! Singapore!”

After accepting telephone interviews with two reporters, Li Xiaofan continued to speak in the Lion City

Wandering around in the S forum and talking nonsense in Chinese

S Forum He suddenly discovered a familiar vest: Pony Ma.