As a reminder, we didn't grow the team at all. Same crew who ran the cloud now run it all on-prem. We ditched k8s, though, and deploy everything through Kamal. Oh, and we also improved our uptime 👍 37status.com
In 2023, we spent $3,934,099 on AWS + other hosting. In 2026, our hosting + support bill is down to ~$1m/year due to the cloud exit. Even including all the hardware buying, we will already have saved ~$4m by the end of this year. And going forward, it's ~$3m/yr in savings 🤑
🧱 Building my own “mini-GCP” on Kubernetes.
I can spin up projects, pick which services to enable, and just use them.
One coherent UI, per-project isolation, GitOps under the hood.
It’s like having your own cloud—fully open source.
#kubernetes#opensource#buildinpublic