Hipa.ai

Recently migrated from Namecheap DNS to Cloudflare DNS for better performance and easier control.

Remove unassigned public IP addresses on Azure to cut expenses. Here's a direct link to check all your IP addresses: https://portal.azure.com/#browse/Microsoft.Network%2FPublicIpAddresses.

Here's the screenshot for our projects (https://instafill.ai/ and https://hipa.ai) after the clean up https://imgur.com/a/Ye1vvZ9. Before we had a few public IP addresses and were paying $24/year for each of them.

It’s super easy to launch a clean WordPress site using a Bitnami image on Microsoft Azure. A 1-core, 1GB RAM virtual machine is more than enough to handle early traffic.

The VM instance can be reserved, cutting costs by 65-70%, so I ended up paying less than $10/month for a multi-site WordPress instance with full control over the server. No DevOps experience needed.

For a real-world example, check out blog.hipa.ai it runs on this setup and loads fast even under traffic spikes.

There are always ways to find a discount and write off Stripe processing fees. Last time it for Hipa.ai, I did it by partnering with HubSpot—they waived processing fees for the first $20K or 1 year of usage, whichever came first.

Ping me if you need this too, and I’ll tell you the steps to get it.