[technion]

>Of course I haven't used any of these cheap hosting solutions or setup a Wordpress site in a couple years

I think what you'll find has changed in the last few years is that "cheap" hosting isn't limited to shared cPanel type accounts any more.

The basic Linode is $10 per month, and presents a VPS with vastly more capabilities than your basic Bluehost plan.

It's hard to argue such things exist due solely to pricing these days. Rather, they exist largely due to the contingency of developers requiring features such as "1-Click Wordpress install".

You honestly wouldn't believe how often a helpdesk gets a call from someone saying "I'm a web developer and I've sold a website I built to a company on your host. Apparently I need to install something called Filezilla, can you help me with that?"

And that's why Wordpress will never run on Node.

[trebor]

> The basic Linode is $10 per month, and presents a VPS with vastly more capabilities than your basic Bluehost plan.

Which works great if you have an in-house sysadmin to keep those servers in working order. Otherwise, going with managed hosting is much better for a client.

[technion]

I don't disagree, but that plays into my point that you didn't choose based on what it was cheap.