"You wrote a crawler in Python?" Wang Xiaodong frowned as he listened to Lu Zhou's explanation, phone in hand.
Lu Zhou explained, "More accurately, it's a ticket-snatching app. I'm planning to buy a server and give it a try. Do you have any good suggestions—"
"Don't mess around with it," Wang Xiaodong cut him off bluntly. "Do you know how to set up a server? Do you have somewhere to put it? Try putting it in your dorm. It won't run for half a minute before the entire floor loses power with you."
Huh?!
Was it really that exaggerated?
But from the sound of it, it felt like he had tried it before...
On the other end of the call, Wang Xiaodong continued coldly, "If you want some pocket money, take on outsourced projects. There's no need to go through all that trouble operating an app for little return. If you have spare cash and want to play around with it, try renting a cloud server. It'll definitely be cheaper than tinkering with a server yourself. You won't have to worry about electricity, internet costs, noise, or cooling. Some charge by traffic, while others charge hourly or monthly."
"You can do that?" Lu Zhou was stunned.
"That's why I'm saying, why is an amateur trying to join the fun?" Wang Xiaodong sighed and patiently continued. "Also, you'd better register a domain name for your app. I'm guessing you haven't considered that either."
"Can't I just use the server IP?" Lu Zhou asked.
"No," Wang Xiaodong answered decisively. "For example, if you develop an app for iOS and hard-code a server IP address into it, then once the cloud service provider replaces its server equipment, not only will you have to repackage and upload it to the Apple App Store, you