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Comment by gertop

7 hours ago

> Not much with Wordpress’s architecture, I would guess.

There are literally thousands of PHP hosting providers.

There are also dozens, possibly hundreds of deviated wordpress hosting services, aside from WordPress.com.

Your point being? These thousands of hosting providers all charge around $5 or more to host your Wordpress instance, because that’s what it actually costs to run Wordpress.

A more modern CMS can bring costs down by serving pages from a CDN cache and, most importantly, selectively re-rendering only pages that changed. This is hard to do with Wordpress because plugins can essentially render anything and depend on any data.