u/MysticalJungle

Based in USA. My low traffic wordpress blog's hosting service is about to expire in a few days. I've come to the conclusion that I should renew but of course I need a viable, dirt cheap hosting service for that one website. Something under $60 a year ideally (so $5 a month). The options on the sidebar look ok but I'm hoping for something even cheaper.

The problem is, people keep telling me to "shop around" over and over, it's very hard to run into actual specific hosts that are both trustworthy and meet my budget. I've seen some people advertising on here, I don't know if those ones are safe.

So can people point me to specific hosting providers to use for this?

I'm kind of torn. The domain and webhosting renewal is coming up for my wordpress website (a science-themed blog) and I'm definitely not going to pay the expensive price just to keep it up another year. I'm either going to switch to a different cheaper web hosting service OR move to substack.

I haven't gotten as much visibility as I would have liked...the only time I get any is if I post a link on Reddit. I would like more of a community, which makes Substack seem more attractive. But I've heard people claim it's also not good, for some reason.