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Re:Grove is here to stay by mibbitier on Friday September 28, 2012 @01:57PM (#4586893)
Imagine if they did it for email...

"Hosted email. Just $10/month for 100 incoming emails."

As you say, you can just buy a VPS for less than $10/mo and install an irc server on it.

Re:Grove is here to stay by asdf333 on Friday September 28, 2012 @04:56PM (#4587747)
not everyone wants to worry about managing a vps.

you could say the same thing about heroku in many ways and yet they have done very well.