Your $3,000/month cloud bill should be $10.
Every number on this page is real. The site you're reading right now is the proof.
| Typical cloud cost | $36,000/year |
| After CochranBlock deployment | $120/year |
| One-time deployment fee | $3,500 |
| Year 1 net savings | $32,380 |
| Year 2+ savings | $35,880/year |
The Scenario
A 3-person startup on AWS running a standard web app
EC2 instances (2x t3.medium): $120/mo
RDS PostgreSQL (db.t3.medium): $140/mo
Application Load Balancer: $50/mo
CloudFront CDN: $30/mo
S3 storage + transfer: $25/mo
CloudWatch monitoring: $30/mo
CI/CD (CodePipeline + CodeBuild): $45/mo
Part-time DevOps contractor: $2,500/mo
Total: $2,940/month → $35,280/year. This is conservative. Most spend more.
The same app on CochranBlock infrastructure
Compiled Rust binary (web server + database + API + assets): $0
Bare metal hardware (one-time, you already own a computer): $0/mo
Electricity + internet: ~$10/mo
Cloudflare tunnel (free tier): $0
CI/CD: $0 (test binary is the pipeline)
Monitoring: $0 (built into the binary)
DevOps: $0 (there's nothing to operate — one process, one file)
Total: $10/month → $120/year. No vendor invoices. No surprise bills. No scaling fees.
ROI on Every Dollar
$3,500 deployment — pays for itself in 37 days
You're spending $2,940/month on cloud. I deploy a binary that replaces it for $3,500.
Day 1: you stop paying AWS.
Day 37: deployment fee is recovered from savings.
Day 365: you've saved $32,380.
Every year after that: $35,880 stays in your pocket instead of going to Amazon.
$225/hr consulting — 14-day payback
One hour of work ($225) that eliminates a $500/mo cloud service:
Payback period: 14 days
Year 1 return: $5,775 (2,567% ROI)
An 8-hour engagement ($1,800) replacing a $2,000/mo stack:
Payback period: 27 days
Year 1 return: $22,200 (1,233% ROI)
Every dollar you spend here saves $10–$50 in recurring costs.
This Isn't New
37signals saved $10M leaving AWS
In 2022, 37signals (makers of Basecamp and HEY) spent $3.2 million per year on AWS. They moved to owned hardware and saved over $10 million in five years. DHH wrote: "Renting computers is mostly a bad deal for medium-sized companies like ours."
You don't need to be their size to benefit. The math scales down. A startup spending $3K/month on cloud saves $32K+ in year one with the same approach.
I build the same architecture they moved to — but for small businesses, at a fraction of the cost.
Why This Model Lasts
Low overhead = I don't disappear mid-contract
My infrastructure costs are near zero. No office lease. No cloud bills eating into revenue. No VC runway clock ticking down.
That means I don't need to upsell you, I don't need to raise prices, and I don't need your next contract to keep the lights on. Pricing stays flat because the model is durable.
You're hiring a business that can't be squeezed by a vendor — because there are no vendors.
How It Works
Single binary architecture
Your entire application — web server, database, API, static assets, TLS — compiles into one executable. 18MB on x86, 9.8MB on ARM. Deploy: copy it to a server and run it.
cochranblock.org is that binary. Intake forms, SQLite, booking calendar, community grants — one process, one file.
Technical deep dive
Rust compiles to native machine code with no runtime. No garbage collector, no VM, no interpreter. A Rust web server uses 2–10MB of RAM. The equivalent Node.js/Python/Java app uses 100–500MB.
Smaller binary. Less RAM. Less power. Less cost. Faster response. Download the binary and verify.
Trust & Compliance
Credentials
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) — pending certification
SAM.gov — registered (pending activation)
Maryland eMMA — Certified Small Business application in progress
11 years defense and enterprise — USCYBERCOM J38 dev lead
8 open source repos — all code verifiable at github.com/cochranblock
All source code delivered under the Unlicense. You own everything. Zero vendor lock-in.