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This is an excellent breakdown, thanks. As others have pointed out you can make it cheaper here or there but I find it awesome that you can run your business without any dedicated IT resources a sysadmin/network/ops kind of person. Adding one employee might switch it from a nice side income to losing money.

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Thanks! Fortunately, the app's usage is pretty casual—users check it a couple times a day, or sometimes week-to-week. Because of that, I haven't had too many issues with server load. Honestly, I could probably run it on a single server no problem, but it's good to have a backup just in case. I freelance alongside of this, so I'm trying to slowly make Cushion my full-time gig. Hopefully, I can make the final push this year.

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