"monthly costs of running the service" was your killing argument. Why didn't you migrate to a cheap hosting ? My single host at scaleway (3.59€ per month) can handle many toy projects and gives me all freedom.
I find Scaleway tricky when deploying apps since it is ARM - the price is kick ass, but I wasnt able to go around limitations with my Python apps. Do you ever run in to issues like that? How is uptime?