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Was pretty surprised that it cost you almost 250$ for a month to run this. Perhaps you could have tried hosting elsewhere. For eg. this would be easily acoomodated in AWS free tier I think. Could have given you a longer runway to iterate. Anyway, cool idea. Few hundred visitors a day is not bad!

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I'm pretty surprised as well. It's basically a simple CRUD app. I think that a single digital ocean box could have done the trick.

Especially when the website does not work (I have an SSL error, see my other reply above).

It's no longer live on that domain. The checklist is nowadays here: https://stayintech.com/info/UX

True, I should have perhaps looked at cheaper options. Dynos were cheaper on most months, that example was the 'worst' month. The wildcard SSL certificate for subdomains was a bit expensive.

I really dig the idea behind the site. I am not a UX developer, but I am improving and the service would be invaluable. What can we do to help get the iteration back in place?

I assume the reason for not going with DO, Linode or AWS was you're not a devOps guy, which is understandable. We can help you with that.

Hey man if you sign up for Cloudflare you can get SSL for free. Plus a lot of other goodies. If you need help with setting up a Digital Ocean box with Phusion Passenger, Capistrano, Ruby, let me know.

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