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Idealist.org replaced Heroku

Now: Disco on a Hetzner server, running 12 months

$11.3Knet saved per year, after running costs

Idealist.org, the nonprofit job board, moved its staging environments off Heroku, where each one was billed as a separate set of dynos and add-ons. They now run on one Hetzner server deployed with Disco, sharing a single Postgres instance, which let the team add more staging environments at no extra cost.

Receipt #02402025-10-14

Idealist.org

Old billTwo Heroku staging environments
$1,000
NowHetzner CCX33 server
$55
Net saved per month$945/mo

Thank you for not renewing

Source

disco.cloud

Numbers as reported. How this ledger works

Timeline

  1. Replaced2025-10-14

Stack

hetznerpostgresqldisco

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