This is old and some of you may know it. For those who may not here is the interesting bit. I have been using Red hat openshift for over an year https://www.openshift.com/ and they give 3 vps equivalent server free on sign up. While it's a bit techie the guide was simple enough and I got a WP blog setup in an hour. If you are comfortable with linux and SSH keys you are good to go. How is it 3 VPS equivalent: They provide in their own slicing terms a vps for database backend so you can get mysql. they provide additional instances (or VPS like devices) which is upto two I believe. Wordpress is infact quite straightforward to setup as they have ready made guide and servers for it. There is a guide here https://www.openshift.com/get-started that might even be of help to newbies if they feel adventurous enough if you were successful do post back