The premise here is somewhat contrasting with what Signal just told us in the blog post, *Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive." https://signal.org/blo

The premise here is somewhat contrasting with what Signal just told us in the blog post, *Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive." https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/ https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291427 (1108 points, 6 days ago, 915 comments). Meredith & Joshua say Signal costs $14m a year in hosting costs. Storage at $1.3m/yr, servers $2.9m, registration fees $6m, bandwidth $2.8m, and additional servers $0.7m = $14m. They say their total costs are projected to be $50m/year, soon. I wonder Signal compares to, say, Whats App: another volume-focused messaging system that at least used to be run very lean.