In reply to Alec.

I certainly get not wanting to pay that much! I'm just saying commercial enterprises with that much traffic likely could. It does sound high to me, but I'm not to that scale yet... $10/mo is certainly doable though. (I would have priced it more like $10, $49, $99 250k-500k, etc. but that's me.)

re: existing native solutions

Maybe I need to see an example. Is there a site with the combos you mention running that you feel is comparable to Disqus? I haven't run across one yet.

As I said in another post, I appreciate the efforts to try and match Disqus. I'd rather use a native system. But, I've yet to be convinced on the end-user UX, let alone from an admin perspective. I don't find Disqus' strength to be on the admin side, apart from off-loading spam control.

Note, I'm mostly speaking as someone who's been commenting on forums before the Internet and on sites all over the Internet ever since. From that vantage point, a few of the boards like phpBB (forums) and Disqus (comments) are best in class. From a site owner/admin vantage, that might not be the case.