When I've spoken to folks running infrastructure, for a lot of companies straightforward advice such as this always worked to cut costs: Move from Heroku/whatev

When I've spoken to folks running infrastructure, for a lot of companies straightforward advice such as this always worked to cut costs: Move from Heroku/whatever other managed provider for your actual database/worker/webserver as costs will rise as you scale Start using AWS Reserved Instances and Spot Instances (or similar) for your workloads Advice such as this has often saved > 30k/month hosting. The caveat is these were mostly SaaS companies dealing with data. Interestingly enough in Unspash's case, their actual cost on Heroku/etc is fairly minimal as they don't seem to be doing much with the data. If they start building things that collect a lot more user data, run ads, do lots of stuff with it transforming user data, run analytics, etc., their heroku infrastructure will be a bottleneck. Right now, it's not.