"I Can't Keep It Up" | Last free speech site going down Christmas day

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[–]Nemacolin 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

So how much does it cost to run a site like this?

[–][deleted] 12 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

In the past they claimed up to $6k a month because their code is shit and they pay Microsoft license fees. Ruqqus is $300 to 700 a month. SaidIt is around $80 a month for the same traffic as Ruqqus.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

$6k a month!? What the hell!? No sane person would pay Microsoft (of all companies) so much when they could literally just copy Saidit's code, or Reddit's old source code, and change a few things.

As both an economist and a programmer, this makes me hurt inside. At least Saidit is cost effective, which makes me feel a bit better.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Yes they were trapped in the Windows ecosystem and using Azure. But wait there's more, they used to host it in Germany too! And they started as open source but went closed source for "security." A complete train wreck all around.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Was zum Teufel

[–]Node[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

$6k per month seems a little excessive. Wonder if rent and other expenses were included in that.

[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Nope that's just the Azure licensing fees alone, before any server costs or any other costs. Voat's total monthly cost was probably somewhere around $10k

[–]Node[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Whew. That's a lot of $$ per [traditional 3-word voat greeting - NKF] With no attempt to even pretend interest in recovering costs. I think we know where some of our tax money is going...

[–]Nemacolin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you.

[–]md_saidit 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Wait, isn't Saidit much bigger than Ruqqus?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As of a few months ago Ruqqus passed SaidIt in the rankings, but they're awfully close: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/list_of_active_reddit_alternatives_v5/