Cloud Hosting Migration & Consolidation
Summary
Section titled “Summary”Consolidated hosting infrastructure across multiple providers (Netlify, Hetzner, DigitalOcean) into a unified environment. Automated provisioning with Terraform and deployments via GitHub Actions. Resulted in 35% cost savings and improved reliability with centralized monitoring and alerting.
Context
Section titled “Context”- SaaS serving 5k+ users in U.S. and Caribbean
- Multiple fragmented hosting providers → operational overhead & rising costs
- Leadership mandate: reduce expenses without impacting performance
Architecture
Section titled “Architecture”- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) → reproducible environments
- GitHub Actions pipelines → build → test → deploy
- Nginx reverse proxies for smooth DNS cutovers
- Cloud monitoring dashboards for latency & uptime
Implementation Highlights
Section titled “Implementation Highlights”- Designed multi-stage rollout (canary → full migration)
- Zero-downtime DNS cutover strategy using weighted records
- Standardized CI/CD → all services follow the same pipeline
- Centralized logs & metrics → better observability
Results
Section titled “Results”- Hosting costs reduced 35% annually
- Reduced vendor complexity (3 → 1)
- Lead time for infra changes ↓ 20%
- Uptime steady at 99.98% during migration