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One team that moved to freebsd

1 team moved to freebsd. It left Azure. Each team's old bill, running cost and net saving.

$20 net saved per month

What they left for freebsd

Left Azure1 team · $20/mo saved

Team and what they builtSinceOld billRunning costNet savedBill cut
Julio MerinoFreeBSD server at home

Julio Merino moved his small web services off Azure Functions and Azure's managed PostgreSQL after a runtime error took them down and the free plan was being retired. They now run as Rust services on a FreeBSD server in his garage, and the Azure bill is close to zero.

Dec 2025$20/monot disclosed$20/mo—