We reduced our cloud bills from +$7,789.45 → $2,115.11 (on average).
But most importantly:
The less we depend on specific vendors, the less locked-in we become. +80% of our infrastructure can now be hosted practically anywhere.
Biggest misconceptions I see:
❌ Self-hosting is extremely complex.
Reality: It's less complex and "scary" than you think.
❌ AWS, Azure GCP make hosting easy.
Reality: They can get very complex too. And large bills can hit hard and unexpectedly.
Simon Høiberg
This year, we started moving off "the cloud" - 80% of our infrastructure now runs on bare-metal servers.
AWS → Hetzner.
Instead of:
- DynamoDB
- ElastiCache
- ECS/Fargate
- SQS
- SNS
- CloudWatch
- X-Ray
We use:
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Kubernetes
- RabbitMQ
- BullMQ
- Grafana
- Prometheus
We reduced our cloud bills from +$7,789.45 → $2,115.11 (on average).
But most importantly:
The less we depend on specific vendors, the less locked-in we become. +80% of our infrastructure can now be hosted practically anywhere.
Biggest misconceptions I see:
❌ Self-hosting is extremely complex.
Reality: It's less complex and "scary" than you think.
❌ AWS, Azure GCP make hosting easy.
Reality: They can get very complex too. And large bills can hit hard and unexpectedly.
Here's the breakdown 👇
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