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Just to add, it’s included with most shared hosting providers.

> One click Admin page

Understatement of the year. cPanel feels janky but it works, and works very well. OP could’ve one clicked a Wordpress installation and hammered away with the default theme (which is quite readable already).

My $20 DNS hosting comes with cPanel and I never had to lift a finger on sysadmin.

And Wordpress can do automatic updates.

I have been using Wordpress auto updates for many years now, works great. Once in a while I have to also `docker compose pull` to update the PHP version (~once a year?) Hosting up to date Wordpress instance requires no effort. And Wordpress has a really nice editor.

They stuck their prices up massively in 2019. Put me off having a fun blog. Still not EUR400/year though.