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[sadiq]

Did the cost reductions come from your server usage varying over time, allowing you to scale up/down?

[danfitch → sadiq]

Servers remain up the entire time we just have less cost from dedicated machines that were being wasted. They were more power than needed and we consolidated the architecture, and their cloud servers are much less expensive.