43 sats \ 7 replies \ @CoolBreeze OP 17 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year tech
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.
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82 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 17 Nov 2023
Wish they would go away from SMS phone numbers.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @doubleplusgood23 17 Nov 2023
they are https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/09/signal-private-messenger-tests-usernames/
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @CoolBreeze OP 17 Nov 2023
That would be awesome!
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @owleyedapprentice 17 Nov 2023
"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.
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2 sats \ 2 replies \ @sancristrader 17 Nov 2023
I wonder if they are renting cloud servers. Because bare metal in the data center cannot be that expensive
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @ryu 17 Nov 2023
"It's for muh scalability!"
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @megaptera 18 Nov 2023
Yeah, they do, read here: https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/
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.
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