Just to add to this, the size of the data grows far more quickly then you would expect. I crawl 30 or so feeds for a personal project and database after 2 month

Just to add to this, the size of the data grows far more quickly then you would expect. I crawl 30 or so feeds for a personal project and database after 2 months of operation is over 200 meg in size. For the cost of hosting/development/work you are MUCH better paying for newsblur and forgoing 6 outside coffee's a year.