I built a website for global farmers,no money to cover the server cost now

2 points by farmercute ↗ HN
Six months ago,I built a website for farmers,It would be a database for agriculture knowledge and farms.Although,the user number is going higher,the server cost is also going higher,after I received this month digitalocean bill,I found may be I cannot afford the DO server cost.What should I do now?I am applying Adsense,and tried to collaborate some suppliers.

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Turn it into a SaaS. Three pricing columns, middle one is "recommended", small price is awful value for money, and a tiny text link for the $0 option.
Get a patreon page or do a kickstarter
What pricing level are you at with DO?

Could you make better use of hardware (ie optimise to run on cheaper server(s)) and then try to monetise it?