Reduce hosting costs

# Use the costs overview

In the dashboard, under each of your payment methods, you'll find an invoice archive and a draft invoice for the current month's costs. The pro-rated daily billing lets you remove unnecessary components with immediate effect.

# Review apps and environments

See if you have any unnecessary apps or environments hanging around — maybe some out-of-date side project, or something half finished? Delete! Make sure you have an up-to-date and complete local backup. That way, you can easily re-deploy it again at a later stage.

# Check component plans

Review your currently selected components. Compare with visitors. You can experiment with a lower scaling of PHP and MySQL. Keep an eye on PHP requests and performance.

# Refactor code

Performance-optimized code often requires fewer hosting resources while still serving websites fast. See the performance section for optimization strategies.