[numlocked]

I'm not sure where you expect to get great wordpress hosting for "10 times less" than $69/mo. That's not very much spend for a commercial website. Pagely, which has the scale economics advantage of doing nothing but hosting WP sites, starts at $24/mo. To hit the baseline level of "production readiness" with Heroku is going to run you at least $85/mo (2 dynos, 1 free, 1 @ $35/mo + $50/mo postgres instance).

If Azure really wasn't sending log events that memory quotas were being exceeded then I agree the alerting leaves something to be desired. But the DB quota was clearly sending "database error" log messages. Dunno what else you want them to do there.

[yuriyguts]

Well, currently we're running the blog on a traditional shared hosting that costs less than $10/mo (you can easily find out which one :)) and it handles the blog amazingly well, even during HN bursts. The blog itself it not our primary line of duty, more of a side project actually. So when there's no new updates, it's quiet enough for a shared hosting to handle.