--- title: I Took a Basic Todo App and Made It Cost $2000/Month description: An exploration of how to transform a simple todo application into a costly, fully-featured production environment using various tools and services. Highlights... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-took-a-basic-todo-app-and-made-it-cost-2000-month-6dft4nxni twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Took a Basic Todo App and Made It Cost $2000/Month | daily.dev og:description: An exploration of how to transform a simple todo application into a costly, fully-featured production environment using various tools and services. Highlights... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-took-a-basic-todo-app-and-made-it-cost-2000-month-6dft4nxni og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6DfT4NXnI.png og:image:alt: I Took a Basic Todo App and Made It Cost $2000/Month og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Took a Basic Todo App and Made It Cost $2000/Month **[Coding with Lewis](https://daily.dev/sources/codingwithlewis)** · 10 min read · 42 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary An exploration of how to transform a simple todo application into a costly, fully-featured production environment using various tools and services. Highlights include setting up databases with PostgreSQL, creating authentication systems, implementing email notifications, and integrating real-time updates with WebSockets. Additional discussions cover monitoring with the ELK stack and Prometheus, logging, horizontal scaling, global load balancing with Kubernetes, AI-enhancements, and disaster recovery plans. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@qwertydiy** · 1 upvotes > You can actually get this a lot cheaper Grafana Cloud offers all of the logging for free and Github/Cloudfare Pages + Cloudfare is free too (Kubernetes is dead cheap from most cloud providers). LLaMa/DeepSeek is also dead cheap. You can get a lot of backups for free. Finally, Pump can asily cut cost by at least 10%-15% with you doing virtually nothing, so it is not as expensive as it sounds. --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-took-a-basic-todo-app-and-made-it-cost-2000-month-6dft4nxni) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"I Took a Basic Todo App and Made It Cost $2000/Month","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-took-a-basic-todo-app-and-made-it-cost-2000-month-6dft4nxni","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-took-a-basic-todo-app-and-made-it-cost-2000-month-6dft4nxni"},"datePublished":"2024-12-11T16:38:39.613Z","dateModified":"2024-12-11T16:38:51.228Z","description":"An exploration of how to transform a simple todo application into a costly, fully-featured production environment using various tools and services. 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