Cloud Infrastructure

Series: How I Used Claude Code to Slash My Cloud Bill by 63% Part 1: The $198/Month Wake-Up Call Part 2: Migrating 7 Static Sites to Cloudflare Pages Part 3: Killing the Load Balancer with Cloudflare Tunnel Part 4: Building a Home Router with a Raspberry Pi 5 Part 5: Connecting Everything with Tailscale Part 6: The Final Architecture - $74/mo and Zero Regrets (you are here) The Before Architecture Here’s what I was running before this project started: ...

Series: How I Used Claude Code to Slash My Cloud Bill by 63% Part 1: The $198/Month Wake-Up Call Part 2: Migrating 7 Static Sites to Cloudflare Pages Part 3: Killing the Load Balancer with Cloudflare Tunnel (you are here) Part 4: Building a Home Router with a Raspberry Pi 5 Part 5: Connecting Everything with Tailscale Part 6: The Final Architecture - $74/mo and Zero Regrets What Was Left After the Static Site Migration After moving all static sites to Cloudflare Pages, the only thing left going through the DigitalOcean App Platform and Load Balancer was n8n – my workflow automation tool at automation.shellnetsecurity.com. ...

Series: How I Used Claude Code to Slash My Cloud Bill by 63% Part 1: The $198/Month Wake-Up Call Part 2: Migrating 7 Static Sites to Cloudflare Pages (you are here) Part 3: Killing the Load Balancer with Cloudflare Tunnel Part 4: Building a Home Router with a Raspberry Pi 5 Part 5: Connecting Everything with Tailscale Part 6: The Final Architecture - $74/mo and Zero Regrets The Problem: 5 Hops to Serve Static HTML As I covered in Part 1, my static websites were going through an absurd pipeline: ...

Series: How I Used Claude Code to Slash My Cloud Bill by 63% Part 1: The $198/Month Wake-Up Call (you are here) Part 2: Migrating 7 Static Sites to Cloudflare Pages Part 3: Killing the Load Balancer with Cloudflare Tunnel Part 4: Building a Home Router with a Raspberry Pi 5 Part 5: Connecting Everything with Tailscale Part 6: The Final Architecture - $74/mo and Zero Regrets The Moment I Noticed I’ve been running everything in DigitalOcean since I decided to ditch my home equipment years ago. The appeal was “set it and forget it” – no hardware failures at 2 AM, no power outages taking down my sites, no maintaining physical boxes. And for years, it worked. My bill hovered around $125/month and I didn’t think twice about it. ...