Should All Forums Charge?

Dream.In.Code recently shut down and I heard that it was about hosting costs. Before that we lost New Boston from the web. Looking at hosting prices I can see how this could end up being a common fate for scaling businesses. Everyone should double check the math here, as I’ve always been bad at it, however I think it’s pretty straight forward.

I’m looking at the cheapest hosting company I’ve seen, which is Firebase by Google. A 2.3 to 4kb message seems to be the common data rate for a 30...

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