As mentioned in the title itself, this post is for a wordpress starter website, which means that the website is in its initial stages, and there are no big surges of traffic. Hence, the major focus is on selecting hosting that has :
– comparatively high uptimes
– good support base
– good user ecosystem
but, lastly and most importantly,
– is price effective and has excellent value for money
That is why Shared and VPS hosting are the two best options to go for in the initial stages, and both offer Managed WordPress hosting and WordPress Application installs respectively, which means that deploying your wordpress site is easier than ever.
Hence, we are not looking at Dedicated Hosting, or really good cloud based solutions, namely, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, because of price sensitivity and less requirement for added sophistication.