A user migrated from PostHog Cloud EU to a self-hosted solution on Hetzner to reduce costs from 180 EUR/month to 42 EUR/month, citing a cost crossover near 2M events/month. The migration, initially a "weekend project," took six days due to four key issues: a daily event cap, ClickHouse memory limits, reverse proxy persistence, and an outdated plugin.
AWS introduced Database Savings Plans, a spend-based discount model for managed database services, offering cost reductions of up to 35%. This model allows commitment to a consistent hourly spend for one year, with AWS automatically applying discounts across eligible usage.
The author describes how they replaced various commercial services (WordPress, Shopify, Mailchimp) with a custom solution built on Cloudflare Workers. This transition aimed to reduce high monthly costs and eliminate common issues associated with traditional CMS platforms, utilizing microservices and edge object storage.