今天收到一封Email，来自newsalloy.com ，标题是News Alloy is over。借助翻译软件，我看完了这封Email。
News Alloy是一个新闻聚合站点，很久以前，我注册过会员，并写过一篇文章来介绍它。不过后来一直没有跟进试用。今天看Email，才知道这个网站一直是一个人在做：开发、美工、管理、推广等等工作，作者是Volodymyr ,在乌克兰的基辅。
News Alloy Stats
Number of Registered users: ~ 9000
Number of new users per month: ~200
Number of feeds subscribed: ~ 90, 000
Visitors Stats
Visits per month: ~ 12,000 (March),
Unique Visits per month: ~ 8,000 (March),
Alexa Rank: ~115,000
Visitor performance could be easily increased with new implementations and stability announces.
Key Features:
Folder based feed organization, highly customizable feed viewing capabilities, Web.20 user interface, AJAX based navigation, and Rich featured Mobile Version (for PDA, Phones), Sharing features, easy expandable.
Technical platform:
Linux Fedora Core , Apache 2.0, PHP4, MySQL 5.0.X (InnoDB), Unix Shell, curl
Servers configuration:
Database + Hosting: Dual Xeon 2.0 Ghz, 46 Gb HDD (RAID 5), 2 Gb RAM
Spider machine: Xeon 1.8 Ghz, 2 Gb RAM ( runts ~ 40 spider processes simultaneously)
Current issues:
Low HDD Space on database server causes to periodically stop the service and cleanup to free space for new data
Need to spread spiders on at least 4 separate machines or even more to ensure faster crawling spped
Need to increase HDD space for more items to fit in.
从2005年底到现在，近两年半的时间，Volodymyr 已经投入了大量的精力。他目前正在开发News Alloy 2，已基本完成。去年开始，仅有的两台服务器（一台Web Server ,一台DB Server），开始频繁当机，用户开始流失。后来准备出售网站，但最后都没有成功。他已经失去了耐心，最终决定关闭站点。
我开始反思：做个人网站的前途。。。技术高手也需要找到正确的商业模式才能更好的让网站活下去，否则就会无法保证网站持续经营下去。在机会来临之前，自己先死掉了。就象马云的活：今天很残酷，明天很残酷，后天很美好，但是大多数人都死在明天晚上！
祝Volodymyr 好运！
