I'm not a server specialist, however I recall the trauma that Voat went through after their free operating system and free database system licenses expired and they started getting gouged.

Voat was forced to re-write their entire platform and transition to free, opensource software for their servers and databases. It was a nightmare that took months of testing. I know because I was one of the volunteers who spent an ocean of time helping with finding and reporting bugs and testing fixes.

And if you're developing your own site then ensure you have a development environment where you can test changes, rather than the risky process of making changes to the production site and hoping for the best.

'Worth keeping in mind.