[travisporter]

“... sustain its hosting service in the long term, which will cost about US$230,000 in 2020”

For hosting 26 preprint servers. Is that high, low or about right

[vorpalhex]

If I was hosting 26 reasonably-available servers in my home office, that's quite high.

If I had to host 26 highly-available servers available to a geographically distributed group in a commercial or academic space with paid maintenance staff and some semblance of support.. that's actually pretty darn cheap.

[driverdan]

That's about $737/m/server. Seems high to me.

[mygo]

this cost-per-server implies that all the money goes to the servers. There may be humans who need to get paid too. Unless they’re claiming that that’s just the technology cost?

[kick]

Ridiculously high, but to be expected.