The celebration sparked by the short-video campaign "Office Show-Off Behavior Grand Exhibition" did not keep Li Banjia's team excited for long. On Monday afternoon, while they were still savoring the affirmation in President Zhao's email and imagining that the 25% target was within reach, Zhang Chen's unchanging poker face was, for once, twisted into a knot.
He pointed to a striking, steadily rising red curve on the Ministry of Works - Directorate of Construction data backend and said to Li Banjia in a low voice, "Jia-ge, we've got trouble. The current concurrent access volume and video upload/playback requests for our H5 campaign page have far exceeded the load upper limit of the temporary test port we applied for initially. The server CPU usage is approaching 95%, and the bandwidth is almost maxed out. Although I've done some emergency optimization, it can only last a few more hours at most. If user numbers keep growing like this, tonight's peak hours... will likely result in a total crash."
The originally relaxed atmosphere in the meeting room instantly froze. Wang Mengmeng and Lin Wei both looked nervously at Li Banjia. For any campaign, the thing to fear most is dropping the ball at the peak of its popularity; not only would that cause a massive loss of users, but it could also trigger large-scale negative word-of-mouth.
Chapter 24