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Ian Nuttall replaced DigitalOcean

Now: Static sites on Cloudflare, converted with Codex, running 10 months

$1,000–$1,240net saved per year, after running costs

Ian Nuttall used Codex to turn a set of old PHP sites, still getting 200k+ visitors a month, into static sites on Cloudflare, then cancelled the DigitalOcean VPS servers they ran on.

Receipt #02612026-01-05

Ian Nuttall

Old billDigitalOcean, $1,300 a year
$108
NowCloudflare $5 plan, at most his stated $1k/yr net
$5–$25
Net saved per month$83–$103/mo

Thank you for not renewing

Source

ian.is

Numbers as reported. How this ledger works

Timeline

  1. Replaced2026-01-05

Stack

cloudflarecodex

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#CompanyNet saved /mo
1
Pieter LevelsDigitalOcean replaced with Hetzner (consolidated servers)
$2,600–$2,700/mofor 4 days
2
Isa YeterDigitalOcean replaced with Hetzner dedicated server
$1,199/mofor 7 months
3
PrototyprDigitalOcean replaced with Coolify on Hetzner
$175/mofor 21 months
4
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$110/mofor 13 months
5
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$38/mofor 19 months

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