It seems to me that decreasing the bleed of an unnecessarily expensive architecture is fruit that hangs much lower, no? I’d personally focus on reducing cost in this scenario before increasing revenue. Neither solves OP’s immediate problem, though.

I’m a dev and freelanced on UpWork a couple of years ago full time. I had a pretty easy time getting good clients and was 100% rated.

I recently went back to pick up some small contracts. I’m working full time on my company and I could use the cash.

It’s been awful. Clients are low balling left and right, the whole platform is oversaturated, a total mess. I think it’s getting harder both for serious clients and serious freelancers to find each other through the influx of garbage.

I’m a software developer. I vehemently hate GoDaddy. Horrible service that intentionally makes it difficult to work with domains outside their platform. If your intention is to set up an e-commerce store, I’d suggest Shopify.