I've been telling people to host wordpress sites on Dreamhost's Dreampress. They handle core updates for you and they'll help you out if it all goes wrong. I'd

I've been telling people to host wordpress sites on Dreamhost's Dreampress. They handle core updates for you and they'll help you out if it all goes wrong. I'd also say use Shopify you're doing eCommerce. It's a pretty excellent platform, and you've got this whole army of developers devoted to reducing the security issues of Wordpress while making sure that sales keep going through.