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		ivalm on July 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Soup.io Will Be Discontinued then why do you need 10k/month to support traffic for 20k users. Their numbers really don't make sense on either side.

nacs on July 18, 2020 [–]

It doesn't sound right to me either. They claim 10K per month in just hosting fees but the owner of Soup ("Euphoria hosting") is actually a hosting business. Maybe they're charging themselves a bunch of money (perhaps as a tax write off).

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