I cant imagine that $100mn lasting if people are doing group calls, file transfers etc. because those are expensive activities with the needs for servers, bandwidth.
Previously they had the luxury to coast because of that donation, now not so much.
The Internet Archive runs ~50Gbit/sec, peaking at ~62Gbit/sec [2].
[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
[2] http://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-...
Would really appreciate if Signal would give rough estimates of their infra needs (average and peak bandwidth, storage, compute, etc).
Amen to that, I don’t understand how anybody decides to go in that direction for this type of project. For my relatively small hobby-project (3Gbit/s image gallery) we’re renting bare-metal servers for $800/mo — cloud providers would be charging $50,000 just for bandwidth, let alone compute and storage…
(Incidentally if anybody knows good CDNs with prices in the same ballpark as bare-metal I’d love to hear it - looks like we’re too big for any of cloudflare’s entry-level plans, but their enterprise support doesn’t want to bother with any customer spending less than $3,000/mo...)