We were even able to downgrade our cloud servers to smaller instances, literally.
I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.
same as c# - seems asp.net comes with a lot of stuff - but to use that stuff a lot of ceremony is baked in.
with Ruby | Rails i'm one or two commands away from most things I need. I understand the language & the ecosystem.
Of course, if you expect a full FE+BE 'omakase' framework like Rails there isn't anything with the same weight. I began to see this as a plus, you actually don't need it all, and nowadays it's very modern to delegate auth to a service etc. I know it isn't DHH's PoV, but it makes it much easier to maintain, so you focus on writing business logic and do the FE in a widely supported framework like React, or use Microsoft stuff, your choice.
The DTOs/DI and the typical .NET developer stuff isn't bad or hard to learn, most of it comes naturally when you think "What would a statically typed language need?"
It's what allows C# code be very clean and easy to follow, where you know exactly what is available unlike Ruby that a lot of things are implicit and can get very nasty. After so many years debugging and improving Rails apps performance, I got sick of it and C# feels fresh.
Then there's LINQ and a lot of language sugar that makes C# code really beautiful. I've done also some Java, and can easily vouch for C#. It's the Ruby of statically typed langs.
And the speed, don't get me started. It's so fast.