• apenstaartje@lemmy.cafe
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    20 days ago

    I think the more shocking part is how a company is willing to pay $5000 a month for a chat room. More people need to make self hosted software options To bankrupt these types of people

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        20 days ago

        These people pay for the peace of mind - no worrying about backups, power supply, network outages, compliance, retention policy or whatnot.

    • ulterno@programming.dev
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      20 days ago

      Hmm, I don’t know how many people they were serving,
      but with $5k a month, I think I could buy enough hardware to increase concurrent user count by at least 500 every month. And that is including the internet and cooling bill.