It’s fun to see just how far you can push “budget builds” with the right setup.

This weekend, I decided to see how much performance I could get out of Hostinger and threw Elementor into the mix (since it’s often criticized for bloat and performance issues). With Bunny CDN and a few tweaks, I was able to get surprisingly solid performance—on shared hosting, no less.

For performance-to-cost, I’d typically prefer something like LightSail, but dealing with AWS for small projects isn’t always worth the effort—especially if you’re not into DevOps.