Throughout November, Bomi was busy buying server shops to prepare for future online games.

For online games, if you want to avoid plug-ins, a lot of data must be run and stored on the server.

The user scale is large, and each information interaction is at a massive level, so the number of servers required is very large.

Moreover, Bomi has to add servers across the country to alleviate the transmission pressure of the server.

Although the light transmission is very fast, it does not take time.

For example, if Bomi only has servers, it would take nearly 2,000 kilometers to send a contract from a third-tier city in Guizhou to an imperial capital.

With a round trip of more than 4,000 kilometers, the light propagation speed is about 300,000 kilometers per second. Without the calculation of the analysis, calculation and packetization process, the delay caused will be as high as 0.013 seconds.

1 second is equal to 1000 milliseconds.

That is to say, a 13 millisecond delay will be generated.

Add unpacking, computing and sending...

The delay will probably reach about 0.5 to 1 second.

If the delay exceeds 100 milliseconds, people will feel very obvious lag.

Within a person's cognitive range, it is difficult to accept such a long delay.

And this thing will gradually increase with the duration of the game.

To give a very simple example, you have been slower than others by 13ms. Then when your 13ms packet is transmitted, others have been acting for a while, and the next time you are slower by 13ms, if the server has no way to do synchronization and difference calculations, you will find that you suddenly start to drop frames, just like a flash, suddenly moving from this position to another position.

The later it goes, the larger the accumulation of differences in the early stage, the more difficult it is to calculate, resulting in the more serious delays and packet loss frames.

What's more, in 2000, server technology was far less powerful than 21 years old. At that time, Internet companies adopted only two ways:

First, server tactics, increase the number of servers.

The second is server-divided technology, which breaks up players and turns into n small groups, such as Telecom Area 1, Telecom Area 2, East China Area 1, North China Area 1...

A server maintains about 1,000 online data.

Then, in order to make the data more efficient, it is solved by setting up computer rooms in different locations:

For example, in North China, the switchboard room may be in the imperial capital, requiring 100 to 500 servers.

Then this batch of servers only serve people in North China, so as to avoid delays caused by long-distance transmission and protection.

Because after the chess and card hall is online, it may face very terrible server pressure.

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In 2000, the best servers in the world were produced by IBM.

To put it bluntly, a server is a computer, but you need to buy the best computer to assume the role of the server.

Storage is one aspect, and the important thing is that the computing speed must be fast enough, otherwise just a few million packets per second will be enough to crash.

There were not many companies in China that could produce high-end computers. At that time, Lenovo was the largest computer manufacturer in China, but it was still inferior to foreign countries. Although it occupied one-third of the domestic market share, one of the important reasons was that Lenovo had higher cost performance and had national support.

Although Cao Yang also wanted to contribute to the cause of his motherland, after weighing the pros and cons, he gave up buying Lenovo's server and decided to buy IBM.

In this era, whether it is CPU, motherboard, graphics card, flash memory, or hard disk, it is basically OEM in China, and the technology is almost all abroad.

If you want to blame, you can only blame the terror.

It is clearly backed by the National Academy of Sciences and has a large reserve of talents, but it has given up on the path of self-development, otherwise it would not have caused others to be stuck in the future.

However, after becoming the boss, Cao Yang could understand Liuchuan's idea very well. As a businessman, making money is the first priority. The investment cost of technology, especially computer hardware technology, is very high, and the benefits brought in the short term can be said to be minimal.

It is possible that if you spend 10 billion yuan a year and spend 20 years, you can only release Huawei's 5G.

So the popular concept at that time was that it was better to buy than to make a business, to get rich first, and then go back to build a car through economic advantages.

Actually, there is not much mistake.

Who can tell whether it is the cost of making it first or the cost of making it later?

However, if you don’t smash it, you will be destined to be stuck in your throat for the rest of your life.

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Before IBM was acquired by Lenovo, in 2000, its server production quality was definitely one of the best, and later Dell, HP, Huawei, and Alibaba Cloud gradually caught up.

The most important thing is that IBM is the earliest computer manufacturer in the United States and the computer giant that began to cooperate with China.

At that time, in China, there were actually not many options.

Bomi spent about 10 million on the server.

Cao Yang's heart is bleeding.

Bomi has not much reserves anymore. According to the financial manager's calculations, there is about 20 million left.

Because online games had not emerged at that time, and everyone didn't know how profitable this thing was, the downward supply chain was not perfect enough, and the later server supplier rental industry had not yet been formed.

Otherwise, Cao Yang could have completely relied on renting a server to solve the problem.

But this is just a small head.

The bandwidth costs in the future are the most terrifying. If you want to maintain an online network of 1 million people, the bandwidth per month alone is probably at the level of tens of millions.

Now Cao Yang only buys online based on the highest 500,000 people.

Liu Guangran actually didn't understand this very much: "Boss, did we think too much at the beginning when we preset so many people?"

After all, at that time, Lianzhong, the largest number of people in the chess and card game hall, had only 100,000 people to die online.

Now that Cao Yang is going to estimate 500,000 people out in one go, there is always a suspicion of being crazy.

However, since Cao Yang took over Bomi, there is nothing he has done that makes people feel that he is just a crazy person.

Liu Guangran is a little used to it now.

Some people brag and criticize, but if it is not achieved, it is brag and criticize.

If it is realized, it is called a great prophet.

Although Caoyang was watched by Liu Guangran like a fool, he also looked at Liu Guangran like a fool.

"You don't know the push capabilities of QQ. You will understand in a few months."

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