Letsdap was paying for managed capacity it did not need. I moved application compute to Hetzner with Dokploy and files from Supabase Storage to Cloudflare R2, while keeping MongoDB managed.
The migration separated Redis cache and queue workloads, preserved production and staging environments, and included backup and recovery procedures in the handover.
The founder reports roughly 90% lower hosting costs and 65% lower total recurring infrastructure spend. These are separate measures from this engagement, not interchangeable savings figures.
Keeping MongoDB managed preserved a separate failure boundary: a hosting-server failure would not also take down the database.
The original article is linked above. Read the founder’s recommendation.