Facing the huge losses of PHP Chinese website, should I pay for my feelings? (Brother Pig)

Many students have read a self-report article I wrote before Why I founded the PHP Chinese website: The growth path of a programmer. In the article, I mentioned why I wanted to build a PHP Chinese website, and I summarized my learning experience that year with everyone. To this day, I still feel that my experience of learning technology is difficult, so I have always had a feeling, that is - to create a professional PHP website for everyone to learn and communicate, which can truly help beginners, so we founded PHP Chinese website (www.php.cn) will do our best to let more people master PHP technology and realize their dreams!

After two years of hard work, dozens of video tutorials have been recorded, with a total number of chapters exceeding one thousand. The website has more than 100,000 registered members (in the past six months, you can watch videos without registration in the early stage), helping hundreds of thousands of PHP enthusiasts. The website has tens of thousands of people studying online every day, and the video broadcasts have nearly a TB of broadband traffic every day. Many students often ask in the group why they can't download and watch offline. Here I would like to explain to you that with a playback volume of nearly 1TB (1,000,000MB) per day, the PHP Chinese website has to pay more than 800 per day for server bandwidth. If download bandwidth is provided, it may The increase is three to five times, so we can only give up downloading offline videos.

After two years of website operation, we have met a group of partners who share common ideals and feelings (Teacher Zhu, Xiaoshu, Ximen Daguanren, etc.), which is also quite gratifying. I paid all the expenses alone for the year, with a total loss of nearly 2 million. The traffic of our website has been rising, and the expenses have also increased. We have no income (in order not to affect the study of the students, we have no place any advertisements). There is an old saying in China that even if a family has ten thousand catties of gold, they are afraid of sitting on nothing. We have no choice but to find ways to increase some income to maintain the PHP Chinese website as a long-term public welfare free. In November 2017, we decided to open some paid online training courses, charging the lowest fees in the industry (15,000-20,000+ for training institutions), and subsidizing the server expenses of the PHP Chinese website.

I am often asked by my relatives and friends why I am still doing this when I am losing money. Many times I cannot explain it to them and can only remain silent. Because I know that even if I explain, my family will only laugh at me as a fool. Because they don’t understand, because they have never experienced the feeling of watching students develop their own websites one by one, and then receiving thank-you letters from their classmates. I have a few friends who are good at playing, and their companies are doing quite well, with annual profits in the tens of millions. During one chat, he asked me why I put my energy on PHP Chinese website. Based on my ability and experience, I can’t make three to five million by just doing any commercial projects. Sometimes I think about giving up after being questioned too much. But when I saw the lively discussions in the QQ learning group on the PHP Chinese website, I felt reluctant to give up and regained my confidence to continue doing this charity to help more people and avoid their learning path being the same as mine. of hardship.

There is no intention in writing this article. I just want to explain to all PHP Chinese website users that PHP Chinese website will always be a public welfare teaching website. PHP Chinese website just wants to spread this public welfare spirit. If you feel that the PHP Chinese website has really helped you, please share it with more people. To encourage shared feelings. Come on, students who are studying. . . . . .