Life at the Top

Chapter 67

“Who are you guys?”

Logan Zimmerman asked them curiously. He was the first to notice Jasper and Jack standing at the door.

“Is there anything we can help you with?”

Zaine Colton and Cameron Scott asked them after noticing their presence as well.

Although Terizone Inc. had been established for more than a year and even had around 5 million software users right now, people hardly ever came to visit the company.

“We’re here to collaborate with you,” Jasper chuckled. “However, before commencing this discussion, your server will break down if you don’t handle it right now.”

It was exactly the same as he remembered. Terizone was terribly poor right now.

The entire company sustained themselves on the software Hudson Moore had created years ago and the first set of earnings they obtained from the stock market until now. It was hard to make ends meet, and what more, the five of them did not even take any salaries.

Meanwhile, the server was their biggest problem.

This was different from the future, where there would be tons of server resources. During this era, a normal server cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Other than wealthy state-owned enterprises, private enterprises could hardly afford one.

The server currently used by Terizone was a sub-standard product that Zaine had assembled after buying the individual components from the Northern district during a desperate point in time.

This simply showed just how poor Terizone Inc. was.

Upon Jasper’s reminder, Zaine turned over to look at the server. It was on the verge of breaking down due to the huge data stream passing through it. Zaine rushed forward with a yell.

Other than Daniel Carter, who was in charge of the company’s legal affairs, the five founders of Terizone Inc. all had top-notch programming skills. Otherwise, Terizone would not have been able to support 5 million software users with a self-constructed, sub-standard server.

The sound of the keyboard rang out in the small office. Zaine stared at the screen, sweat beading on his forehead.

The technical prodigy who had developed the main program of KK was not in a good mood.

“Logan, think of something. The server is now overloaded. It could break down at any moment. If it breaks down, we’ll lose a lot of users.” NôvelDrama.Org holds text © rights.

“What can we do?” Logan remarked. His fingers flew across the keyboard at the speed of light. “The server’s performance has reached its capacity. We can either add a server immediately or wait for this one to go down.”

“If nothing else works, should we forcibly disconnect some of the users? That way, the data load could be alleviated,” Cameron suggested.

Zaine and Logan remained silent after registering what he had said. Users were the very core of Terizone. Although disconnecting some of the users would reduce the load on the server, doing so would make it seem like they were going against their principles.

Right then, Jack, who had been standing behind them all along while watching them hustle, whispered in Jasper’s ear. “Mr. Laine, this bunch of young people seems to have a pretty good attitude, but it’s just

that…”

“They’re simply too poor, right?” Jasper smiled and stated what Jack was too embarrassed to say.

“If they weren’t poor, we wouldn’t have the chance to work with them,” Jasper said matter-of-factly.

He took a step forward as he spoke. “Look at it from a different perspective. The main load on the server is coming from data transmission between users within the country,” he told Zaine, who was now drenched in sweat.

“You can open up a buffer area in the server memory to store the current messages being sent out by users and send them out after a one-second delay. That way, the users would hardly feel the delay, but the server will get one second window to cool down. After this, it will have more computing power.”

Jasper’s suggestion introduced a new perspective to the three of them.

After thinking about it for a while, Zaine was certain that this was an effective tactic.

“Cameron, Logan, hurry up and do as he says! Write up the code for the buffer area. I will support the data stream here. Do it at once!”