Cheap or even free WordPress Hosting is quite luring. Nothing is better than running your website for free, right? Well, cheap or free WordPress is not a synonym for low or no Cloud Hosting expenses, possibly the opposite is true.
It is quite frequent that hosting providers go to extreme measures to deal with intense competition. In their struggle to secure a good market share they provide cheap services, the cost of which has been lowered due to intense budget cutting on their IT departments.
This results to increased costs for the clients in the form of increased downtime and lost business because of it. Additionally, clients typically use human and financial resources on troubleshooting, instead of growing their website.
When doing research on hosting for WordPress, make sure to aim for value-for-money instead of cheap and test, and communicate with potential providers. However, if you run a staging site, a cheap WordPress solution could be a good way to test it and run it at a low cost.
