Well, one of the good things about HostGator is if they turn out to be a decent host, upgrading and moving the site to a VPS they offer would be pretty easy. WPTavern.com is surely not within the realms of overloading the resources on a shared hosting account just yet. It's not like I'm running TechCrunch or Mashable. This site only receives maybe 50,000 pageviews a month which is nothing. I don't like going the VPS route unless it's managed and if it's managed, that means it's expensive.

I just want the site to be online and functional so I can write and publish content. I don't want to use my time to manage servers or even stuff dealing with a shared hosting account.