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本帖最后由 lsylsy2 于 2012-1-19 18:21 编辑
翻译+解说，懒得完整翻译了……
中英对照，红字是吐槽解说简述等
各位，主机市场很黑暗，大家多做做好事吧……
exit(0);
January 19, 2012 @ 6:31 am
Well, posts here from the last few months have been slow, irregular and unenergised. Here is one post that I have intended to write for the last couple of months. TL;DR version — for personal reasons and for the future of LowEndBox blog and LowEndTalk community, I have decided to step down and take an exit.
额，最近几个月在这里发表文章变得缓慢、无规律而且没有精力。这是一篇我在最后几个月决定写下的文章。简单来说就是——因为个人原因并且为了LowEndBox博客和LowEndTalk社区的未来，我决定辞职【注：怎么翻译好？】退出。
TL;DR:Too Long;Did't Read
Some Background…
一些背景……
1st of February 2008, I took on the moniker “LowEndAdmin” and a picture of an old VIC-20, and wrote the very first blog entry “Hello World“. It has since been quite a ride over the last 4 years. I was a lone blogger back then. I worked as a software architect for a financial software company, and had some general amusement in the world of hosting and virtualisation. A low cost VPS where you get root account + total control was a niche that I rarely saw people writing about, back then at least. So I started blogging about low end VPS hosting with a monthly cost capped at $7/month. I was on the hunt of some cheap servers for my spare time projects at that time anyway. I was looking for servers that were cheap enough so that the cost of hosting can never used as excuses not to get my hands dirty with ideas.
2008年2月1日，我开始使用“LowEndAdmin”这个昵称和一台老VIC-20的头像，写下第一篇博客“Hello World"。在过去四年它成长的相当快，但是我和当年一样是一个孤独的博客撰稿者。我在一家财务软件公司做软件工程师，在主机和虚拟化之间得到一些乐趣。至少在当时，拥有Root账户和完全控制的低价VPS很少有人写到，于是我开始用博客记录每月价格低于7美元的低价VPS。在那时，我刚好在为我的业余项目寻找廉价服务器。我在寻找足够廉价的服务器这样主机开支不会成为我不去把想法实现的理由。
人家就是个技术宅啊有木有……软工啊……
Fast forward 4 years.
四年来的快速增长。
LowEndBox.com is quite a different beast these days. It’s often mentioned in other webhosting forums (hmm, I meant WHT). It’s one of the top 3 results when you search “cheap vps” on Google. Rather than scanning through offers sections on WHT, low end providers are jamming my inbox with listing requests every single day. It has built a hard core community over here and at LowEndTalk, where hosting related topics and other non-sense are often discussed. It even endured some nasties. Big thanks for the community for not forsaking the site when it was in trouble.
简述：LEB和LET增长很快，很有名，论坛里有时还会有丑事（默默望向hostloc），但是感谢你们让他活了下来
Just Don’t Have The Time…
只是没有时间了……
However it seems that I’ll be the one deserting the community here.
但是看起来是我让这个社区变得废弃。
Despite the apparent “success” of LowEndBox, for the past year it has become more of a liability to me, rather than an enjoyable blog, let alone a useful asset. The amount of work involved in posting escalates. The ever enlarging dead pool means it takes more time to investigate all the n00b providers who sent me requests. Writing dead pool posts itself is actually mentally disturbing, by just thinking about all these scams in the hosting industry. And technical posts? Regarding to fine tuning services for low end systems? These became few and far between, as most people are here just for the cheap “too good to be true” VPS offers.
简述：表面很成功，实际责任很重。各项工作花费了大量时间精力。DEAD POOL吃力不讨好，技术文章没人注意。
A blog that was originally set out to help me getting started to work on my side ideas became a big project in itself, where it sucks up valuable time where I could actually do some “work”. This was more of the case over the last 12 months, where I transit from being a faceless employee of a large corporation to being the boss of my own startup. For those who have worked in tech startups you would know how much time your own business demands, not to mention I also have family and church commitments. I often post on LowEndBox way pass 12am wondering, “hey why am I still posting here?” I just don’t have the time.
简述：这里只是我为了自己项目寻找便宜东西做的一个小站，但是它本身却变成一个很庞大，很耗费时间的项目。我现在开始了自己创业，需要很多时间，我实在是没时间了。
Nor Enjoying The Community…
我也并不享受这个社区
Okay. I have to say that I got to “know” some great individuals over the last 4 years on this blog, although “know” does not go beyond a few email exchanges. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep in touch with some of you.
简述：庆幸的是过去四年认识很多卓越的人，虽然“认识”只是几封电子邮件的关系。
At the same time this community is also filled with teenage hosts plotting their next pump ‘n’ dump, and scam artists planning how to defraud a provider. Blogging here for 4 years forced me to see a lot of dark side of hosting business. Many are also quick to shot down a competitor, and people don’t hesitate to label others “scammers”. I too might be at fault here for being extra sceptical and cynical — but I have to admit that it does not make a community enjoyable.
简述：同时这里出现了很多青少年创建的hosting【咳咳】和很多欺诈。我看到很多黑幕。这让这个社区不那么愉快。
And guess how much that motivates me to keep on writing here? Not much.
猜猜我还有多少兴趣在这里写下去？不多。
Staled Growth of The Websites…
网站发展开始迟滞……
With me severely lacking in time + motivation, unfortunately that it’s the community that suffers. I have to say that LowEndBox actually did not grow much in 2011, in terms of number of visitors and page views. At the same time I know there is so much you can do with a hosting oriented community.
简述：我严重缺乏时间和积极性，LEB发展缓慢。这一年应该可以做很多事情。
But I don’t have time. That again draws in guilt because I know how much useful this website can be, if I have the time to code these new features and extra functionalities, if I have the time to be more interactive with other community members, if… The websites remain stale because their owner don’t have time nor enough motivation to grow it. Not cool.
我没有时间。我知道这个网站可以变得多么有用，所以这更让我有罪恶感。如果我有时间编写新的特点和更多的功能，如果我有时间和其他成员有更多互动，如果……因为这个网站的主任没有时间和足够的积极性来发展它，它变得成就。这不Cool【我实在不想翻译……找不到合适的词】
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