Cost reduction
About ₱1.8M saved a year
Before, four recurring bills kept arriving every month and nobody could explain what they paid for.
The company was paying for cloud hosting, product analytics, hosted search, and log monitoring. Resources created for finished projects kept billing, the database tier was far larger than real demand, and three subscriptions duplicated capability that could run on hardware the business already owned.
I measured the true baseline from finalized invoices, matched every running resource against a real business purpose, proved the replacement under load, then switched production in a ten-minute planned window at midnight and removed the old cost in approved stages.
- Cut recurring technology cost by about 93 percent, roughly ₱1.8 million a year.
- Completed the production switch in a ten-minute planned window with no data loss.
- Kept a written rollback path and recovery snapshots at every stage.
Monthly recurring cost through 2026. The two paths are identical until September, when the migration
completed. Figures in Philippine pesos; January to August are finalized invoice actuals.
About ₱150,000 saved monthly
Recurring spend fell from roughly ₱162,000 a month to about ₱12,000 a month.
Paid for itself in under a month
The temporary cost of running both environments was recovered by the first month of savings.
Reversible at every step
Capacity was proven under load first, and a documented way back existed before each change.
Business problem
Recurring hosting and software bills kept growing and nobody was reviewing what the business actually used.
Solution
Measured the real baseline from invoices, proved a replacement under load, switched in a planned window, and removed cost in approved stages.
Result
About 93 percent lower recurring cost, roughly ₱1.8 million a year, with no data loss and a documented rollback path.
