WordPress isn't inherently insecure, but shared hosting is. A dedicated server or VPN costs hundreds monthly and requires a skilled programmer to maintain it. The speaker ran one for a year and lost money on security upkeep alone.
Whenever you're talking or you hear people talk about, oh, I would never use WordPress because of all the security issues on it, those are people that have experienced shared hosting. And I agree, don't do it. I— there is a much more expensive part, a flavor of hosting, which would be called a dedicated server or your own virtual private server, VPN. And that is way more than any of my clients anyway need. It costs hundreds a month. Um, is it secure? Yes. However, unless you are a server programmer, you're going to have to hire a server programmer to keep it secure. Uh, it's— that is why when I had my VPN I had it for 1 year and then I was done because it actually cost me more money than it brought me in, um, because I had to hire a server programmer to go in and fill the holes or patch the holes created by all of these nefarious people out there that think it's fun to hack into things.
