DNN is a performance driven system - it needs good hardware performance to deliver best results ... when you opt for a cheap plan ... you are usually bundled on a server with lots of other clients ... as a results you performance may vary greatly from time to time.

If money is tight - then yes look at cheap hosting - but dont get upset when your site feels less responsive than you would like.   Managed.com starts their packages at 20 a month - and they are optimised for DNN.  

Westa

I use an Amazon EC2 virtual server. Having the entire server lets me run other stuff as well. It's probably not the cheapest option but I now have three instances of DNN on there running nine sites. None of the sites are high traffic and there is loads of spare capacity.

I swapped recently to the relatively new t2 instance type. For my workload that both reduced costs and improved performance.

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Best wishes,
- Richard
Agile Development Consultant, Practitioner, and Trainer
www.dynamisys.co.uk