I spent the last three months running Documenso, Docuseal, and OpenSign side-by-side on the same Hetzner CPX21 VPS (3 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, $9.42/month) to figure out...
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A few weeks ago, my friend Kat — who runs a small Etsy shop that somehow grew into a real business — called me in mild panic. "James, I am paying $47 a mont...