A smaller monthly infrastructure bill
We moved Costa Del Home's services from Heroku to AWS and used Dokku for hosting, reducing monthly costs from €400 to €50.
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.
Problem
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.
Solution
We moved the application's services from Heroku to AWS and used Dokku to host the application.
AWS with Dokku provided a lower-cost hosting setup, bringing the monthly bill down to €50.
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
Enabled multiple managers per property with zero-downtime data and relationship migrations, preserving the existing app and user experience.
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.
Integrated the app with Stripe from scratch
Replaced cash payment collection with automatic Stripe payments, reducing accountant workload by 90%.
