I second this. Wordpress has by far the best ratio of "quality of the result + number of places you can get fully-supported turnkey hosting for it" to "amount of work and know-how you have to put into it" of anything I'm aware of. It has a huge supporting ecosystem of products that want your money in exchange for some particular trivial feature to add to your site, but the core is free and open source and privacy-respecting, and honestly quite well-engineered if you can agree to close your eyes and pretend it's not made with PHP.

Tigertech and DigitalOcean are two quite good, although somewhat techie-focused, places you can get hosting for cheap if you don't want to self-host.