First, Talkr isn’t dead: the business and the service will continue. However, Talkr needs a wider set of skills than I can provide it. In particular, it needs someone doing sales. Podcasts aren’t as easy to monetize (today) as textual content — the space simply isn’t mature yet. The right corporate parent will be able to provide more resources, generate more revenue, and provide more “business smarts”.

Second, is it wise to run 3rd party analytics, DNS and site monitoring? Absolutely. Although hindsite suggests that I made some mistakes in Talkr’s development, choosing to outsource those services are not among them. If there’s a cheap and reliable way to outsource functions that aren’t central to your value proposition — do it and move on. (Of course, where off-the-shelf tools weren’t available, we rolled our own reporting and monitoring tools as well.)

Thank you for your comments.
-Chris

Google Analytics account? They are free aren’t they? DynDNS? Why are they using DynDNS? Why not manage your own DNS? SiteUptime? Great for starters but they should be rolling their own monitoring - memory usage. load. services other than http. MYSQL max connections.

Seems like a “basement” company.

It’s easy to start a “Web 2.0 startup”. All you need is a good idea and some programming skills. That doesn’t equate to business smarts or a business idea.