Costa Del Home / APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE + COST OPTIMIZATION
The same product. A smaller hosting bill
Moved Costa Del Home from Heroku to AWS with Dokku, reducing hosting costs from €400 to €50 per month - eight times cheaper.
ClientCosta Del Home
Work deliveredInfrastructure Migration
Business result€400 · Monthly cost before
THE EXISTING PRODUCT
A smaller monthly infrastructure bill
CostaDelHome’s existing developer was loaded with other work, so we stepped in to support the team and move its infrastructure improvements forward. We brought the technical maturity to assess the existing application’s hosting needs and implement the migration. Our Stripe and performance expertise also supported the wider work we delivered for the client.
We moved Costa Del Home's services from Heroku to AWS and used Dokku for hosting, reducing monthly costs from €400 to €50.
Infrastructure should match the application’s actual needs. Moving hosting to AWS with Dokku reduced the ongoing bill and freed budget for the business and its next product improvements.
THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Heroku to AWS migration for Costa Del Home
After Heroku raised its service prices, Costa Del Home had a €400-per-month hosting contract despite the application not being heavily loaded. We moved its services to AWS with Dokku, bringing the monthly hosting cost down to €50.
What needed to change
Heroku raised its service prices, leaving the business with a €400-per-month contract for an application that was not heavily loaded. The hosting cost no longer matched the application's needs.
THE WORK WE DELIVERED
Improve the product. Keep the business moving
- 01
Move services to AWS with Dokku
We moved the application's services from Heroku to AWS and used Dokku to host the application.
- 02
Reduce the monthly hosting bill
AWS with Dokku provided a lower-cost hosting setup, bringing the monthly bill down to €50.
VALUE FOR THE BUSINESS
Moved services from Heroku to AWS: the results
Hosting is now eight times cheaper: €50 per month instead of €400. That saves €350 per month, an 87.5% reduction, equivalent to €4,200 over a year at the same monthly costs.
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Other issues fixed
CostaDelHome / CRM Development & Data Migration
Added advanced functionality to the CRM
Enabled multiple managers per property with zero-downtime data and relationship migrations, preserving the existing app and user experience.
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CostaDelHome / Search Performance
Improved page load speed of the search functionality
Reduced search page load time from 10 seconds to 100ms - a 99% reduction and 100× faster loading.
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Costa Del Home / Stripe Integration
Integrated the app with Stripe from scratch
Replaced cash payment collection with automatic Stripe payments, reducing accountant workload by 90%.
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