I’ve been critical of WordPress.com for years, but after a conversation at WordCamp Asia and some hands-on testing, I realized I was wrong—WordPress.com has changed in a way most people aren’t talking about. The biggest “how did I miss this?” detail: none of the plans limit page views or bandwidth. That matters because once you move beyond entry-level shared hosting, managed WordPress hosting usually gets expensive fast, and the pricing often scales up based on traffic. In this video I break down why the WordPress.com Business plan ($25/month) is positioned as managed hosting, and why the value is kind of ridiculous if your site grows. You get unmetered bandwidth, unlimited traffic, and the only real limiter is storage (which you can upgrade). I also cover the practical stuff I care about—99.999% uptime, staging, automatic daily backups, burst scaling, and 24/7 support. I migrated a site, tested speeds with GTmetrix, and saw improvements even though I already thought my hosting was fast. Zooming out, I also talk about why WordPress.com matters for the open web. Every time someone chooses Wix or Squarespace, we lose a little bit of the open web, and WordPress adoption only grows if it’s easy to start—and easy to stay.