I Replaced My $100/Month Cloud Bill With This Free Stack — 6 Months In, Zero Downtime

Описание и применение

Сокращение ежемесячных расходов с 100 $ до 0 $ за 6 месяцев без простоев, заменив платные сервисы на бесплатные Cloudflare, Neon и Supabase.

High monthly cloud costs ($100/month) for a zero-revenue side project.

Reduced monthly spend from ~$100 to $0, saving $600 over six months with zero downtime.

1. Replace frontend with Cloudflare Pages (unlimited bandwidth, 500 builds/mo).
2. Move backend API to Cloudflare Workers (100k requests/day).
3. Switch database to Neon (0.5 GB, autoscaling to zero).
4. Use Supabase Auth for authentication (50k MAU).
5. Store files in Cloudflare R2 (10 GB, zero egress).
6. Replace VPS cron with Cloudflare Cron Triggers (free).
7. Deploy Worker with npm create cloudflare@latest my-api, set Neon DB URL via wrangler secret put, then wrangler deploy.
8. Query Neon from Worker using @neondatabase/serverless.
9. Monitor uptime to confirm zero downtime.

Real traffic on this project last month: 41,000 requests, 2.1 GB bandwidth, ~180 MB database.

Cold start on Neon after hibernation: ~300ms on first query. Cloudflare Workers: no cold starts at all.