"Cheap" shouldn't be your first thought. "Effective" matters more. Can you get the layout you want? Will you have to deal with embedded ads? Are you vulnerable

"Cheap" shouldn't be your first thought. "Effective" matters more. Can you get the layout you want? Will you have to deal with embedded ads? Are you vulnerable to the vagaries of someone else's failure? Wordpress is very popular, of course. Pay for a hosted solution somewhere (Dreamhost is like ten bucks a month), and use the standard. Personally, I'm moving over to WebPop (http://www.webpop.com http://www.webpop.com). It's a little more expensive, but it breaks out of the Wordpress paradigm, it's based on Foundation so it has all the modern responsive stuff without looking like Bootstrap, it provides total control over your code, and it has a clean separation of structure and content. Also, they're hosting on Rackspace and boosting with Akamai, so it should be robust against traffic spikes.