According to China’s laws, unauthorized software to amend others, if not so profitable, the conviction more difficult. Tomato Garden on its website of the copyright statement also said that they did not provide any sale of optical discs, totally free of charge for users to download. Hongleihanyuan for some users, that only pirates Tomato Garden “scapegoat”, he himself did not profit. Tomato Garden used the users have found that the operating system bundled with the Yahoo and eBay plug-in aides, but he can not therefore profit jump to conclusions.

In the recording of information, Hong Lei their disclosure, so his monthly earnings more than 10 million, and his mind clear “let Microsoft know you use this to make money, he will find you.”

Hong Lei said in the recorded information, Tomato Garden in 2006 when the profit model there are three: First, the tomato garden site click on the ads; Second, Hong Lei, through their own websites to provide landscaping package, including XP to download the software, these software Bundled in a rogue software, Honglei therefore monthly earnings on February 3 million; three through pre-installed on a tomato garden version of the rogue software, brought traffic to advertisers or registered user, this month more than 10 million profit.

It is worth noting that the recording took place in September 2006, nearly two years. For the Internet industry, occurred two years to change, such as the subsequent outbreak of the rogue software Taofa and clean-up, so that the two men were referred to the state’s tomato garden does not mean that the status quo, such as his income is no longer a monthly income of 10 000-level, may surge that may also have plunged.

According to the Hong Lei chat recording the first person to the form of rewriting, the topic in order to adjust, but are faithful to the original intent of chat Honglei, the subhead for the editor added.

The growth of the Tomato Garden

Tomato Garden site and download a small amount of the previous visit, I linked to are in your (referring to Zheng Zhaohui host the first World Wide Web) where, using a virtual host, I was the original 2 M (Katherine) of bandwidth, and later increased to 5 M, If not limited bandwidth, download the fully liberalized, I estimated 20 M bandwidth limits on more than 10 trillion, my software (that tomato garden version of Win XP) that you download from the withdrawal, only the basic take 1 to 2 M The bandwidth.

I was just clicking, you that放着, a monthly 3-50,000 independent IP, then the only site advertising revenue, very small, servers can not afford to buy, then I and Yahoo and eBay Engage in cooperation bundled, revenue increased rapidly, in this year (2006) Yi Eryue the time, it was a monthly income of more than 20,000, I saved the 100,000, I bought a server, I remember that the allocation is Intel’s Pentium 4 3.0 GHz CPU, 1 GB of memory is. I changed the server and found that after 15 days reached 70,000 independent IP.

Soon, the daily independent IP reached 150,000, while the number of online 6,000 people, and later to an independent IP number 250,000, the CPU regular server load reached 90 percent, CPU can not stand by. I shall put the forum server and download server separately, in Suzhou, I rented a server-forum procedures, to buy their own servers for download, decentralization of the Chengdu.

Suzhou 100M independent monthly bandwidth is 1800, flight 3000 for a month, make a 20% discount, Suanxia Lai is 2400, not all of your Suanxia Lai. I buy their own servers are HP, I remember at the time of the HP website Price is 21,999, I was spent to buy the 20,600, two-way Intel Xeon processors, 2 GB of memory, now online at the same time the highest number of 13,000 people, processing - Share is 45 percent, enough bandwidth up to 50 M, the day is generally 35 M. The Forum is an independent IP 30,000 per day, I now all of the independent daily IP is 400,000, the Forum only one-tenth of the download.

Navigation Station at 9991. Com boss from Shanghai came to me last year (Honglei in Suzhou, Jiangsu province), they want to buy all or part of my site and software. I mainly want them to the main lines of business (referring to tomato garden version of Win XP), my site is also under my control, they want to make a Web site tomatolei.com navigation station, they also promised to help me to promote, I now independent IP Is 400,000, said they have the confidence and capability to 1 million or more, over several times, but I can not get involved in the website of the contents of the other. They are willing to pay me 40,000 a month, have been paid 24 months, and then the entire company 30 percent owned by me, they want to 70 percent. I was not promised. I find them later, 40,000 direct variable 80,000, 80,000 every month to me, other conditions remain unchanged. I was still reluctant, even if the monthly Nengna 500,000 the third year, my site not under the management of my credentials, which I did not want.

Now I have a monthly income of more than 100,000, mainly from the main business (that is, tomato garden version of XP), XP landscaping package has two 30,000 per month, the website click on the ads very little income.

Forum do not earn money

You asked me what to do now to make money, relatively difficult, I think, be great, still have to win popularity, for customers. Like Thunder, some of their earlier investment 30 million U.S. dollars, he is the master of the user, provide free services, a very good popularity, you still like 51. Com, has just begun when the losses do a lot of money, and later started Income, such as providing similar Tencent as clothes, ah, can rely on these charges. 51.com back to some large companies to advertise, like Joyo.com, ah, eBay, you brought traffic or consumer, can get income. 51 now has 2.8 million independent IP, 2 million per month can make.

I do feel that the Forum can not earn money. Forum to depend largely on advertising revenue, I found the Entertainment ad traffic up, you know what the big banner network, he is to provide some news, photos, Gao Xiaolei things, the popular good, I 400,000 independent IP, daily click The number of 10,000-1 Wan Wu, a dime a click of a day, nearly 200 of income. If the movie ads, 400,000 of the independent IP, only 3,000 people clicked on, a difference of five times. Film ad CTR 0.9-1 percent, that is, before I register online advertising, and then release the code to your site.

I now the forum, every day 30,000 independent IP, 1200 people online at the same time, an average of 150 clicks per thousand 40 money, a few pieces of money every day it 10, even you put four advertisers ad, every day Also 50 to 60 yuan income, January Suanxia Lai before more than 1,000 yuan.

Bundled into the rogue software on more than 10 million

I now monthly income, the software (that tomato garden version of XP) has more than 10,000, the income of only two sites 30,000. This is not only inside XP, inside my own download site have some packaged software, such as landscaping XP package, has tied up inside, these are the default installation. The landscaping package to download other stations have forwarded his daily downloads of the great, every day 5,000 downloads.

These default installation of the software, I now is assistant Yahoo and eBay network plug-ins, all of them approached me, 3721 is the beginning of the original charge of the software to find me, would like to see the effect of binding, but is a company in Sichuan They are eBay’s agent, is only the beginning, I try holding the heart, on the effect of one week out, and it is getting better, getting better and better.

I now eBay plug-in, every day I can bring 70 registered users. EBay is paid by results, the user registration to be effective. Yahoo search assistant is the price of 1000 to 10 money, the Global Garden so many tomatoes are XP I have done, over time, now one and a half years, is now almost a month more than 10 million of income.