Although there are still many functions that have not been developed, they still have to leave early. Many things do not depend on personal will. i-book.in still went into the dustbin of history. Fortunately, I threw it away with my own hands, not someone else.

The source code of the search engine is open source: https://github.com/SaltyLeo/i-book.in_Archive

# at first

It has been at least half a year since I first had the idea to start this website. At first I just read books by myself, but later my friends always asked me to help find books. It was too annoying~, so I simply went to the search engine.

At the beginning, it was based on SaaS Algolia. It is very easy to use. You can search immediately after typing, but you will be charged for more than 10,000 indexes, so you switched to Elasticsearch. Because of the local index, there is no limit on the number of index entries.

But I don't know the front end. The earliest self-built search engine appeared in the form of TG-bot. After the bot was almost perfected, the number of people in the group gradually increased, and the requirements naturally became higher. I am also lazy, too lazy to explain the usage and details of bot one by one, so I am supplementing the knowledge of Flask. Here I would like to thank this blog post for the inspiration address here.

# Later

Because of the epidemic, I have nothing to do all day long, holding the half-baked Falsk technology, borrowing the interfaces of other search engines, and fiddled with a barely-readable front-end interface , The group of friends shouted that it is easy to use, and I am also complacent.

Gradually, the traffic increased, and so did the number of crawlers. In order to improve service availability, I used a server with better performance, and used some paid items such as the service provider's paid firewall. Gradually, the expenditure could no longer be generated by love.

So I advertised on Google AdSense, and put my personal payment code on the page. I am very grateful to the netizens who donated enthusiastically at that time. Without you, i-book.in would not be able to last for so long.

# Now

As time goes by, more and more people know about this spam website, the average daily pv hovers around four digits, and the monthly expenditure on servers and corresponding supporting facilities has gradually stabilized(crawlers are restricted too much, the remaining The downloads are all real visitors)No longer a sharp increase, and the ads have also begun to improve a bit. Visually, within half a year, you can no longer use love to generate electricity. It seems that everything is going in a good direction.

But the news I saw yesterday still made me a little worried. I don’t want to eat a free lunch yet, so the long-term pain is worse than the short-term pain. Let’s end it now. This journey will come to an end first, see you next time if you are destined.

# Epilogue

If the initiator of this website is not me, it may not be so anticlimactic, but I have to think more, after all, safety is the first, and I will never touch this kind of thing again, it's too annoying.

https://t.me/SaltyLeo_blog This is my blog discussion group, if you are interested, you can join, there will still be big guys to help you gain knowledge/

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