We were looking into switching to Cloudinary which seemed to have better compression results without losing additional quality, but using their offering (transformations + CDN + storage) would have increased our costs to ~$250/mo.
After giving it some thought, I ended up forking the WordPress plugin we were using and replacing the service it used with Cloudinary to compress and replace our existing assets on our server (cutting out the CDN + storage portion).
In the end, the new system gives us better results and we should fall within Cloudinary's free tier and now spend less each month than before.
Does anyone else have some optimizations they've made in the interest of cost savings?
It's amazing just how many of them I've collected over the years - in particular online newspaper subscriptions. Individually they cost £peanuts/month, but together they were costing me far more than I expected - or noticed on my statements. Most were for things I no longer use (in particular, service subs for personal projects) or read.
All in all, a very profitable hour of my time!
We saved 50% cost immediately. Then found out https://rsync.net/products/attic.html has special plans (compare to https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html) for Borg users and saved another 30%. Not bad for an afternoon of work.