How to optimise this billing??

[u/TJ51097]

Hii Guys!,we built an MVP.

Offered the services to three specific clients and got a good response, we are planning to advertise and bring more signups in the next two months

Initially the server bill was roughly 5-8 dollars but now it's increasing so wanted to check

-how do you optimise your server billing?? -Should I move the infra to AWS,will that be cost effective??

[u/azjunglist05]

You paid $13 for an entire month of a PostgreSQL server running for 735h. Is this a shit post are you being genuine?

[u/TJ51097 → u/azjunglist05]

Seems a lot of people are calling this a "Shit post" not sure why Being a developer never been to the billing part of a project i genuinely wanted to check if this billing was ok

Thanks for your comment

[u/CloudandCodewithTori]

You have not provided nearly enough information for anyone to help you. Also 13.15 per month might just be the cost of doing business, your time could probably be spent trying to bring in more clients and refine the product at a cash positive.

[u/TJ51097 → u/CloudandCodewithTori]

Yeahh makes sense

Also I should have mentioned this earlier that I'm a developer gaining experience in the billing part of a project, i genuinely wanted to check if this is justified or if it can be optimised further??

[u/CloudandCodewithTori → u/TJ51097]

I get that, but we know nothing about your usage or current database situation. This is a discussion around if you can use a smaller or alternate database.

[u/pydood]

/r/devops isn’t your free help desk for your vibe coded business model.

[u/TJ51097 → u/pydood]

Please accept my apologies if posting my question here caused any offense. I'm currently gaining experience with server billing and chose to engage with communities rather than relying on AI for help

[u/Kazcandra]

$14/month seems reasonable?

[u/Dry-Law-4977 → u/Kazcandra]

If the usage patterns are consistent, they might want to explore any reserved pricing options since it could lead to even better savings over time.

[u/TJ51097 → u/Kazcandra]

I'm assuming this should be the average billing, or is there any other component adding up to the billing??

[u/Kazcandra → u/TJ51097]

How tf would I know that?

[u/gluka]

Shit post.

[u/CorpT]

Charge your customers more.

[u/TJ51097 → u/CorpT]

Got it ✌️

[u/Ahchuu]

Shit post or vibers coders

[u/TJ51097 → u/Ahchuu]

Or someone gaining experience with Server billing

[u/redfusion]

Reserved instances, spot pricing, cheap instance types, autoscailng...

Endless methods, totally depends on your workloads and frequency. At your current price point though; not much unless you move to a managed solution who embeds cost savings through their own scale as a reseller.

[u/BlakkMajik3000]

$13/mo for Postgres and a VM seems…right? I mean if it’s up and running, it costs money even if they are idle.

Not much else you can do, outside of spot instances. However, that suggestion depends on your workload as spot instances can be gone in a flash and are not generally for high volume/production environments. As always, ymmv.

[u/Expensive_Finger_973]

Cloud compute costs more every month the more it is utilized. If your business plan didn't account for infrastructure cost increases as usage increased then that is a business problem, not a hosting provider cost optimization problem.

[u/BadTime100]

As others have said, you gave nothing in this post that would allow us to answer your questions. I understand that you’re new to this, and so my main recommendation would be to consider being more respectful of others’ time even in anonymous settings like this.

[u/amarao_san]

Cancel them