Hi everyone! What are your preferred providers for hosting a personal website? Am looking for a host with easy WordPress install, decent built-in security. Also, is WordPress still the CMS of choice? Any other affordable options out there? Again, the need is a personal website.

I guess git will be the no cost way if that suits the requirement

If your site doesn't need a complex backend, and you're comfortable with a little hands-on coding then using static site generator is best and cheapest way to go. Hosting platforms like Netlify and Vercel allow free hosting with added features like form submissions (with spam control) and serverless functions if you need to pull data from 3rd party API to show on your site (eg; your own twitter timeline).

I would recommend https://forestry.io/ if you are against using blogger, wordpress or other blog / CMS based websites. Forestry generates static websites. There is always Github/Gitlab though.