Costs that are that out of whack with expectations would usually indicate some very low hanging fruit. If you can save $800/month by adding a couple of databas

Costs that are that out of whack with expectations would usually indicate some very low hanging fruit. If you can save $800/month by adding a couple of database indexes and tweaking your config file, then yeah, it's worth it. That said, from what Maciej has written in the past, he sounds competent in these things (i.e. has his databases set up for remote replication and failover), so it would seem that the culprit is more likely over-engineering than under.