DigitalSociety ditched AWS and DigitalOcean. Swapped the comfort of cloud for full control on Hetzner, built on Talos Linux. PostgreSQL? Now running on CloudNativePG. Traffic flows through Ingress NGINX with ExternalDNS handling the names.
The payoff: monthly costs dropped from $449.50 to under $100. ARM vCPUs and OSS tools replaced pricey managed services.
Bottom line: Managed services are costly and you probably noticed it! More startups are gearing up to trade cloud ease for control, forging lean Kubernetes stacks with eyes wide open on cost.
