Frankly, SaaS bills add up. The things with all these subscription fees, is they're like paying in installments -- it numbs you to the bottom line, you end up paying anyway.

Here's an example, $9.00 isn't much for Photoshop. For it's $120.00 a year. That $30.00 server that barely dents your budget? $360.

If you have a programmer that has devops chops in chef/puppet/salt/ansible, get on his back and have him automate everything on cheap cloud instances.

Chef recipes and such as genius because you consolidate your work in declarative recipes.