Comment by devit
2 years ago
Hmm, no?
Photos are generally <1MB in size and I think have a single photo sent but not received on average per user seems reasonable (most users probably almost never use Signal, and of those that do probably most only use text, and those that use photos probably most don't send more than one or a few per day).
Videos are probably relatively rare and if not maybe they should do something about them, like not storing overly large ones them on servers and requiring both phones to be online to transfer.
There's a 500x margin between the estimate and their costs anyway.
> There's a 500x margin between the estimate and their costs anyway.
It's probably more than just storing it in s3. Given their list of
> 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.
"Storage" probably also includes the cost to host it on their databases or some queuing/redis etc...