How I Saved Over ₹15,000 Annually for a Business?

As you know, whenever I write about AI or automation, I always talk about cost-cutting. Whether it is about getting more work done using fewer AI tokens or extracting maximum output at the lowest possible price, that has always been my core focus. What I write here, I strictly follow in real life too. Take our Rising Chat AI project for example, and my own projects after that like Xel Studio and SearchWala—all of these products run at absolutely zero cost. I intentionally write my code to save server resources and minimize AI token usage so that heavy tasks can be executed without spending money.

Recently, I applied this exact strategy to my uncle's business, and almost completely wiped out their annual website expenses.

Bringing the Costs to Zero Before this change, maintaining the website was costing them heavily. Instead of just listing the problems, here is exactly how I tackled each expense and brought the costs to zero:

• Hosting and Services: They were paying ₹8,000 every year just for hosting and extra services that were never used. I moved the website from their paid servers and hosted it on Netlify for free, for a lifetime. (Cost reduced to ₹0)
• Development Updates: Whenever even a minor development change was needed, the previous provider charged ₹3,000 to ₹5,000 every single time. That dependency is now completely eliminated. (Cost reduced to ₹0)
• Backend and Automation: If they wanted to run any heavy automation or dedicated backend tasks, higher-tier business plans would easily cost another ₹5,000+ annually. By routing the backend to GitHub and GitLab servers, this is now completely free. (Cost reduced to ₹0)
• Domain Cost: The only recurring cost we are left with is the domain charge (like .com or .in), which is about ₹2,500. This fee is mandatory regardless of where you host.

My Multi-Server Strategy for Future Automation Can you run heavy automation on free hosting like Netlify? No, because Netlify is only built for displaying the frontend. To solve this without paying for premium servers, I use a multi-server strategy. To make it easy for anyone to understand, here is exactly how this works:

• Splitting the Load: Imagine you need 1GB of server power, but a free tier only offers 512MB. Instead of buying a bigger, expensive server, I simply use two separate free accounts and distribute the workload across both. Together, they combine to deliver the full 1GB of power.
• The Division of Work: For this website, Netlify acts as the face (frontend), while GitHub and GitLab act as the brain (backend). I manually configured them to communicate with each other perfectly.
• Ready for the Future: While there is no heavy automation running right now, this exact setup is ready to handle future needs. It completely bypasses the need to ever pay for costly higher-tier plans.

Bonus: A Beautiful, High-Value Frontend Beyond the savings, I completely revamped the frontend. A similar market-level design would easily cost over ₹15,000 in development fees—a saving I have not even added to the total calculation.

The Result The old service plan is expiring soon, after which I will take full control of the domain.

Bottom line: all frequent update charges, backend costs, and hosting bills are now zeroed out. The annual expense has plummeted from over ₹15,000 to just the ₹2,500 domain fee, leaving behind a free, yet far more powerful infrastructure.

Website link https://globaltekfinancialservices.netlify.app/