• apenstaartje@lemmy.cafe
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      10 hours 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

      • ulterno@programming.dev
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        7 hours 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.

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        8 hours ago

        there are already countless self hosted options out there probably.

        these people would rather pay slack than us for implementing such a thing though.

        • dihutenosa@piefed.social
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          7 hours ago

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