Finding a reliable and affordable Hosting provider

Hi,

I am not sure if this has been answered previously, but I couldn’t locate it on the support forum, so here it is.

Can anyone recommend a good hosting provider for WordPress? I’m looking for a reliable, fast, and cheap hosting provider that would not drive me to write those horror stories on multiple forums out of sheer anger and rage.

I know WordPress recommends three providers: BlueHost, DreamHost, and SiteGround.

I have browsed and viewed hundreds of YouTube videos and reached out to many influential YouTubers who have channels dedicated to this. In summary, this is what they told me::

Avoid BlueHost because it is an EIG owned company and will drive you crazy with lack of support and uptime after a year or so. This also takes out HostGator, which I had shortlisted because they are quite cheap.

Avoid DreamHost because it has its own custom cPanel and so transferring a website out, at a later stage, will be very complicated.

Avoid SiteGround because although their service is good, they hike up their prices pretty soon.

They then proceed to recommend me their preferred hosting provider accompanied with affiliate links. For most of these companies, I have struggled to find decent reviews, and so I’m sceptical.

One very famous YouTube guy replied to one of my YouTube comments and claimed that WordPress ‘charges’ millions of dollars to ‘recommend’ hosting providers. Another one asked me to switch to WebFlow.

Needless to say, I’m very confused. I’m a simple guy looking for a simple solution. Can anyone suggest a genuinely good hosting provider?

Cheers,
Roy