---
id: "AE22-009"
category: "infrastructure"
confidence: 0.97
date: "2026-02-15"
source_file: "PRODUCTION_HARDENING_PLAN.md (Section 6 Cost-Effective Implementation)"
---

# AE22-009

Enterprise production hardening on a $46/mo Elestio stack adds only $2/mo incremental cost using free-tier tools: UptimeRobot (50 monitors free), n8n (already running), Redis (already running) for feature flags/rate limiting, GitHub Actions (2000 min/mo free) for CI/CD and backups
