Yesterday was another blow, as one of my servers crashed and I lost important data. We're now facing the possibility of having to shut the site down. A buddy of mine is helping me try to fix things, and while waiting around, I figured I'd log on and say hi. To be honest, I'm feeling pretty down right now.
My website, http://www.lafeng.net, was one of the first photo blogging sites, launched at the end of 2004. When I first introduced photo blogging, there weren't any results that came up when searching for those four characters on Baidu. Initially, we grew very quickly, soon reaching 400,000 hits, with an ALEXA ranking within the top 10,000. Users were uploading between 1000-2000 photos a day, and everything seemed to be going well.