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Too expensive.
And no written limit means they can cut you off for any made-up reasons at their leisure. Vague term is not a good thing.
you can get better deals around for VPS or decent shared hosting and you will be able to install and run wordpress without any issues!
That's the thing. It's not a low price.
You said "unlimited theme" and "upload any plugin/theme". Those requirements put you into the Business class, which is $25/month. Now, if you're some dentist's office with no IT support other than google, maybe having someone manage it is not a bad deal. But that isn't the typical LETizen.
I mean, I hope you're not all dentists.
All the packages below $25/month mean either limited theme, limited customization, and no plugins. Storage is also limited, though that may not be a big deal depending on how much media your blog has. Heck, even Google Analytics pushes you into Business class!
At least they don't meter bandwidth, unlike wpengine.com who starts at $25/month for a massive 50GB tranfer...then for a mere $115/mo you can get 200GB and if you really are a baller, $290/mo gets you 400GB.
For 25/mo, on LET, you can buy a large E-estate.
VPS are cheaper and in my experience I spend more time dealing with SaaSS/shared hosting restrictions than with the actual WordPress. Setting up VPS from scratch is much less hassle than trying to adjust someone else's platform to your needs.
In my personal experience Wordpress.com is used by 1) newbies or 2) people that are both stubborn and technically disinclined.
Once reasonable people understand that vastly superior alternatives exist they make the switch asap.
As @raindog308 said, you can't do anything really useful without buying the business plan ($25/m billed yearly). And, even using the business plan, there are some incompatible plugins.
Also, note that (from their TOS):
We may terminate your access to all or any part of our Services at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately.
There's WP hosting deal on a well known deal aggregator site with a partially Japanese name. $ 69 /year for hosting. Been trying it out most of today. For lifetime (cringe!) You can also connect upto 30 sites for backup, updates, etc. and CDN. You can look it up or in true LET sprit, PM for AF link :-)
@ITLabs where did the pigeons migrate to?
Have a look at https://wordpress.org/hosting/
Pigeons will come back. For now I'm following @level6's recommendation.
Smart move. Here's a typical Wordpress.com user -
Including any backup plugin!
"Trust us with your backups, and you may not make backups of your own."
GTFO.
Can't let users handle backups. They are very good hostage.
WordPress.com only good for its free tier.
People on this forum is not the demographic for managed WordPress hosting. We'd probably rather spend the extra time and effort to build something self-hosted and more "barebones" or with more control and then add the customization and management ourselves like using Jekyll, Grav, Hugo, etc.
For actual WordPress hosting, the .com sites restricts some capability of what we can get self-hosted and costs us a pretty dollar.
That's like every hosting provider, e.g. DigitalOcean:
I see... but never felt comfortable with that.