At our agency we tend to have a lot of low budget projects, plus we like to keep expenses low if there&#x27;s a relatively small overhead in return.<p>For saving on costs we use:<p>- Bitbucket over Github (Private repos are free, although Github has more features, so it depends on how much you use really)<p>- Email Hosting Zoho over Google (FREE): We tend to recommend Zoho to single entrepreneurs since it offers 10 accounts for free on your custom domain.<p>- CMS (FREE): We use our own barebones one that&#x27;s similar to siteleaf.<p>- Redis&#x2F;Web Server&#x2F;DB Server ($40&#x2F;mo) Digital Ocean over AWS&#x2F;Heroku: DO Droplets for launch + initial marketing, and then depending on how things turn out, EC2 or more Droplets.<p>- SSL (FREE): Recently tried out Let&#x27;s Encrypt. Works beautifully. Will probably use that for everything in the future.<p>- Exceptions (FREE): New Relic seems to do a decent job, although the paid plan over at Airbrake seems a lot better. Haven&#x27;t tried Sentry, but will give it a shot after reading this post.<p>- Log Management (FREE): We use tail and grep :D It&#x27;s messy but we survive<p>- Assets &#x2F; CDN: Sometimes Cloudflare (free), sometimes S3&#x2F;Cloudfront (same as article)<p>- Chat (FREE) Glip over Slack: Glip&#x27;s free offering is better than Slack&#x27;s, because you can confine people outside the organization to specific channels, which works fantastically for us.<p>- Fonts (FREE): We tend to advocate some decent looking Google Fonts that get the job done