I will give 6 months free offshore vps hosting with 4GB RAM 50GB SSD storage and 2CPU to the person who open the same thread and receive over 3 pages with exactly the same recommendation, from different people..
There is no such animal as "best hosting" or "beginner friendly hosting".
Best hosting in terms of what? Price? Some hosting providers are charging a liver and leg for low quality supper slow services with SSDs and CPUs from walmart or aliexpress/alibaba (yes there are such providers), advertising it as "WordPress optimized" "Best WordPress Cloud hosting" etc.
Or we are going to rank hosting providers based on personal budget? Spending 100$/mo for a basic cpanel that can run wordpress perfectly with ABC hosting company is not even a pocket money for me so I like ABC hosting company and for me is the BEST one.. George on the other hand.. can spend 15$/mo and is using XYZ hosting who is providing exactly the same features and performance.. is XYZ worse than ABC? Absolutely NOT, but then why I'm spending 100$/mo for the same features? Well I don't know..it is what it is.. or I have limited IQ. But wait.. I will still recommend ABC and George will still recommend XYZ.. Go figure it.. Both are right..
Alex.. claims that his hosting provider is super uber because is paying 0.50$ /mo and his website is with 83% uptime.
In terms of performance? Every website is unique, especially the dynamic ones (wordpress) , don't expect that someone will provide resources of super-computer for a wordpress with tons of S******t plugins (yoast) for 1$/mo. My website may work smoothly with XYZ but that is NOT a guarantee that YOUR website will perform the same.
Because if is not about performance>price then ALL web hosting providers are equals in therms of usability.. It doesn't matter if is VPS hosting or Shared Hosting.
Wait, we can pick the best hosting provider based on unbiased reviews in random platfroms like TrustPilot.. (hold one a minute.. Blackhatters are selling trustpilot reviews for 1$ per review..).
I can guarantee you that... web hosting company that is hunting performance and quality perfection will NEVER spend 10$ CPC and will never pay 250$ CPA for 2.5$/mo plans
