I first published the costs of running Pagecord back in March. Things have changed recently, with a few new costs (CleanTalk, ICO data protection), a move to more resilient infrastructure, and a big price hike from Hetzner in June.
Pagecord is a UK Limited Company which comes with a number of overheads, and I take no salary or dividends whatsoever. Any profits stay in the business so I can call on them when needed.
I think people will find this interesting, and also appreciate the transparency. Pagecord is very much a labour of love, but I do hope the number of paying customers continues to grow such that I can make a small income in return for my hard work eventually.
| Service | Details | Monthly Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Google Workspace | Email and spreadsheets | $9.37 |
| ICO data protection | Pagecord needs to be registered with the ICO in the UK | $5.80 |
| Domain name | At-cost from Cloudflare | $0.87 |
| Hetzner Compute | CPX32 app server, IPs | $53.47 |
| Ubicloud Managed Postgres | Standard-2 Postgres running in Hetzner | $62 |
| Hatchbox | Amazing deployment tool for Rails apps | $10.20 |
| Cloudflare R2 | Image storage, plus backup storage | $0.68 |
| Cloudflare Images | Proxy for image optimisation | $6.50 |
| Postmark | Inbound emails plus newsletters | $16.50 |
| Mailpace | Transactional email | $3.37 |
| CleanTalk | Anti-spam API | $1.50 |
| Claude Pro | AI developer | $120 |
| Accountancy | I do most of it myself but I need someone to verify the books | $33.59 |
| Virtual office | So someone else can handle the business address and official mail etc ⊹╰(⌣ʟ⌣)╯⊹ | $29.93 |
| Total | $353.78 |