Global Building.
12th floor.
Liu Hong was leading Li Dong and Sun Tao around the computer room as he introduced, "We are now using a server cluster method. We will have one main server and six backup servers. When the main server malfunctions … "
Li Dong and Sun Tao listened very seriously.
Even though Li Dong was a reincarnated person, his understanding of computers was only limited to playing games and chatting with others.
Li Dong didn't understand many of the names that Liu Hong mentioned, but that didn't stop him from understanding.
After Liu Hong spoke for a while, Li Dong asked, "What's the maximum number of people it can support at the same time?"
Liu Hong explained, "It depends on the situation. If it's just a simple text-based tour, a few million people isn't a problem. But for a shopping website, it mainly needs images to be cached … "
Liu Hong rattled on, and Li Dong and Sun Tao scratched their heads.
Shen Qian, who was at the side, interrupted, "Team Leader Liu means that if we follow Taobao's model, we can probably support 200,000 people browsing the website at the same time without any lag."
"200,000 people?"
Li Dong wasn't satisfied with this number. In his previous life, there were millions of people online, and they played dynamic games. It wasn't that difficult.
So far away, they didn't save money on this, but Liu Hong could only support 200,000 people online. This was too little.
Shen Qian looked at Li Dong and knew what he was thinking. She said unhappily, "Do you think 200,000 people is little? At this stage, not to mention 200,000 people, even 10,000 people is more than enough! It's all online at the same time, and it's not accumulating the number of visitors. According to Team Leader Liu's estimation, the number of daily visitors will not cause congestion even if it exceeds a million. Do you think we can achieve that at this stage? "
Li Dong rubbed his chin. A daily visitor count of over a million was a difficult task.
After thinking about it, Li Dong felt that Shen Qian was right. He nodded and said, "Let's leave it at that for now. However, the website will definitely develop better and better. We still have to do the necessary preparations."
Liu Hong and the rest were speechless. The website hadn't even been created yet. Wasn't it too early to think so much?
Shen Qian couldn't be bothered to refute. She said, "Let's not talk about other things first. Let's wait until the website reaches 200,000 users."
At this time, there were not many websites in the country that could do this. Shen Qian felt that it would take at least one or two years for this to happen. Li Dong was too optimistic.
However, Li Dong did not take it seriously. Was 200,000 people a lot?
It might sound like a lot now, but in a few years, any small shopping website would be able to reach 200,000 people.
Of course, he did not care whether it was true or not. Anyway, that was what the website said.
Following that, Li Dong looked around the office area. The environment of the office area was quite good. As there were fewer people and the space was large, Shen Qian's office here was more spacious than Li Dong's office upstairs.
After all, there were more than a hundred people upstairs, and there were only about twenty people downstairs including the logistics staff. The conditions were naturally not the same.
Li Dong entered Shen Qian's office and looked around for a while. He turned and said to Shen Qian, "Your place is quite big. Give up the office upstairs. Director Song and the rest are sharing an office now."
Shen Qian said indifferently, "Whatever. Anyway, we will be moving to a new building at the end of the year."
Li Dong smiled and said, "It's good that you agree. When we move into the new building at the end of the year, I will pick a big office for you."
Shen Qian smiled and said, "As big as Director Sun's?"
Li Dong touched his nose and glanced at Sun Tao before saying, "Let's talk about it later."
He knew what Shen Qian meant. It was not a problem of the size of the office, but a problem of status.
Li Dong actually did not care. After all, Shen Qian had brought him a lot of help. If he could tie Shen Qian to the company, a vice president or even a general manager was nothing.
However, after all, he had to care about other people's thoughts. Sun Tao was now his partner. Wang Yue and other directors were also important people Far Away.
If Shen Qian only had status, it would not be a big problem. But once Shen Qian was given power, those people might not be happy.
Of course, if Shen Qian could set up the shopping mall and Li Dong let her take over, others would have nothing to say.
As for whether the shopping mall could be set up or not, Li Dong was still quite confident. It was just a matter of time.
At that time, if Shen Qian was still willing to stay and wanted to be on an equal footing with Sun Tao, Li Dong was also willing to support it. However, it was too early to say these things.
"Hmph, I knew that you are bluffing."
Shen Qian was too lazy to argue with him on this. She continued, "We are not busy developing the website these days. There are a few things that I want to hear your opinion on."
"What is it?"
"First, the name of the shopping mall. Should it be called Far Away Mall?"
Li Dong frowned. Does Far Away Mall have some limitations?
After all, in his consideration, the shopping mall would eventually develop into a third-party platform, not an exclusive online shopping platform for Faraway Supermarket.
If it was called Far Away Mall …
Just as Li Dong was pondering, Sun Tao agreed, "Far Away Mall is quite good. You can tell that it is Far Away Company. We can use the supermarket's reputation to promote the shopping mall in the early stage."
Li Dong thought that this was not a bad idea. After all, shopping malls like Jingdong and Suning were also named after their own companies.
As for Taobao, Old Ma liked to change the name, so it was not a big deal.
The name was not a big deal. As long as it was promoted well, it did not matter what it was called.
Thinking of this, Li Dong nodded and said, "Let's call it Far Away Mall."
Shen Qian did not dwell on this and talked about the second problem.
"What payment method will we use?"
Li Dong was stunned for a moment and said as a matter of course, "Alipay!"
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Li Dong realized where the problem was!
Alipay was a third-party payment company under Ali!
Ali had Taobao, and Taobao could not develop without the promotion of Alipay. If he used Alipay, wouldn't it be funding the enemy?
This was not the most important thing. The key was that if he used Alipay, he would be controlled by others in the future.
Once he used Alipay, the future transaction data would be completely exposed to Ali. Business data would always be the core secret of a company. If it was exposed to outsiders, it would be fine if they were not enemies. Once they became enemies, they would not even know how they died.
Li Dong wanted to be a third-party, so he was destined to be a competitor with Taobao.
Although he was nothing now, and Ali did not even know who he was, it was better to be prepared than to be controlled in the future.
In addition, the return of funds was also a problem. The handling fee was also a huge expense, and the company's business model was exposed …
This series of shortcomings immediately made Li Dong give up on using Alipay.
If Li Dong only wanted to do a supermarket, it did not matter what payment method he used. However, if he wanted to do it big, this kind of private third-party payment platform must not be used.
In his previous life, Jingdong chose to acquire online banking, Suning chose to develop Yifubao, and Tencent also had its own exclusive Tenpay …
Did these companies not know that developing a third-party payment platform would cost a lot, and that the gains and profits were not proportional?
But they chose to develop or acquire it themselves, so that they would not be controlled by others.
Thinking about this, Li Dong realized that he still had a lot to learn. Influenced by his previous life, sometimes he would make subjective judgments.
For example, if it was not for Shen Qian asking, Li Dong would not have thought about the payment problem.
Letting out a long breath, Li Dong said, "In the early stage, we can work with non-private third-party payment platforms like Unionpay. Later on, when we are big, we can develop our own payment platform."
Shen Qian frowned, "Isn't the payment method a bit monotonous?"
Li Dong waved his hand and said, "We can also use cash on delivery. There are not many online payment methods now, and everyone is used to paying in cash …"
As soon as Li Dong finished speaking, Sun Tao questioned, "If we use cash on delivery, it will be very troublesome to outsource the logistics, and it will take some time for the payment to arrive. At that time, I'm afraid we will have to build our own logistics team."
Li Dong felt a headache when he heard this.
Originally, he thought that it was not difficult to develop a shopping mall. As long as he was willing to spend money to promote it, it would not be a problem.
But who knew that because of a small payment method, he first had to develop a payment platform, and then because of cash, he had to build a logistics team.
Although he could not build a logistics team, if he used an external logistics company, the collection of payment would be limited. Wanting to build an independent third-party shopping mall was really not as simple as he thought.
Seeing Li Dong frown, Sun Tao could not help but say, "Why not use the existing payment method? According to what you said, we will increase a lot of expenses, and it will also cause some unnecessary trouble."
Li Dong waved his hand and said, "I have considered this matter. Other people's things are other people's, after all, it is not as convenient as using my own."
Although Sun Tao still did not understand, he did not say anything.
Only Shen Qian's eyes lit up. From the moment she asked this question, she wanted to know Li Dong's answer.
Now it seemed that she had guessed correctly. If Li Dong was only satisfied with being a commercial supermarket, he would not need to worry about this at this time. It seemed that this guy's appetite was not small.
Not only did Shen Qian understand, but Liu Hong, who was next to her, was also slightly shocked. Compared to Sun Tao, who was a layman, Liu Hong obviously understood the meaning of a third-party payment platform.
However, Liu Hong still had some doubts in his heart. Could Li Dong do it?
Now even the shopping mall was just an illusion. Was Li Dong too arrogant to think so much at this stage?
Then Liu Hong thought about Li Dong, who was worthless two years ago, but now had a net worth of more than 100 million. Maybe he could really create a miracle.
Everyone in the room had their own thoughts, and Li Dong was not in the mood to guess what they were thinking.
After frowning and thinking for a while, Li Dong said after a long time, "Let me think about these things for the time being. My mind is a little messy at the moment. Your top priority is to develop the shopping mall. Hurry up. If you have any difficulties, just tell me."
Liu Hong quickly said, "Thank you, General Manager Li. We will do our best."
"Well, let's call it a day."
Li Dong exhaled a mouthful of turbid air. Without saying anything, he walked out of the Electronic Commerce Department with Sun Tao.
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