Heard the Salaries were outrageous. Cause looks like the total cost to operate is 14mil a year. Plus 6 million for registration fees. Wish they would go away from SMS.
Bet that price would come down. Storage: $1.3 million dollars per year.
Servers: $2.9 million dollars per year.
Registration Fees: $6 million dollars per year.
Total Bandwidth: $2.8 million dollars per year.
Additional Services: $700,000 dollars per year.
When we first deployed this system in 2017, only a few servers were necessary. But as the number of people using Signal increased, the number of servers required to support private contact discovery also rose. At its peak, nearly 600 servers were dedicated to private contact discovery alone, at a total cost of more than $2 million dollars per year.
The actual blogpost is here: https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/
Why would they pay this much if it wasn't a honeypot
Avoid signal. Simplex, self hosted matrix, 0xchat are all good alternatives
why so high?
Heard the Salaries were outrageous. Cause looks like the total cost to operate is 14mil a year. Plus 6 million for registration fees. Wish they would go away from SMS. Bet that price would come down.
Storage: $1.3 million dollars per year. Servers: $2.9 million dollars per year. Registration Fees: $6 million dollars per year. Total Bandwidth: $2.8 million dollars per year. Additional Services: $700,000 dollars per year.
ftfy
they are https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/09/signal-private-messenger-tests-usernames/
That would be awesome!
"Another $19 million a year or so out of Signal’s budget pays for its staff. Signal now employs about 50 people"
not the worst relative to how other non-profits go, but yeah this doesn't need to be that high. that's half of the current $40 million in costs.
I wonder if they are renting cloud servers. Because bare metal in the data center cannot be that expensive
"It's for muh scalability!"
Yeah, they do, read here: https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/
good, Signal can take the NSA money like M$FT did with Skype.