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by jakejake 3810 days ago
The hosting costs appear to be about $70 ($30 for the hosting and $50 for the DB). That doesn't seem excessive to me.

The other expenses appear to be various other services (slack, support site, logging service, etc). Lot's of 3rd part services to handle stuff.

Obviously it's a lot cheaper if you can do many of these things yourself (run your own support web app, use a free chat service, etc, etc). But we all have to decide what services we want to pay for vs run ourselves - in some cases it is cheaper to not have to spend the time!