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.
Yes I'm aware MS makes it easy to build containers and even single executables, but languages that compile down to an ELF are pretty much a requirement once your deployments are over the 10k containers mark.
I understand that you're getting a roughly 100mb dist directory for a .Net web app, and that it uses quite a bit of ram.. but people also use Node and Java which have similar issues.
Don't get me wrong on this, I'd like to use Rust+Axum a lot more and C# a bit less.. but I don't dislike C#.
That being said, I'd much prefer to deploy a C# application over Node or Java, no argument there. But saying "I wish more startups were using C#" makes me wince. C# seems well-suited for the monolith-architected VM-image-deployed strategy of the early 2000s, but it's pretty close to being the exact opposite of modern best practices. And unfortunately it's kinda unfixable in a language that depends on a VM execution environment.
I'm sure all this is short-lived however -- I'm relatively confident we'll see deployment best practices converge down to "use whatever language you want but you must compile to WASM" in the next decade, so the warts of devs' chosen language aren't an ops problem anymore.