Don't do blue-green deploys when you have no revenue. Downtime costs you nothing and at 3,400 visitors a day you'll be lucky to drop a single request while deploying.
Pre-compute and cache to reduce your need for beefy servers.
When you can run something on your machine or in the cloud, choose your machine.
EDIT: It's less about saving money and more about not spending it.
Pre-compute and cache to reduce your need for beefy servers.
When you can run something on your machine or in the cloud, choose your machine.
EDIT: It's less about saving money and more about not spending it.
EDIT2: Forgot to mention: use SQLite.