I like shared hosting, not only it is very cheap, but you do not get to bother with administration stuff. You cannot run everything you'd probably like, like in a VPS, but pretty much every provider has at least PHP support with some database and most also provide Python, Perl and CGI support (the latter wont be fast but you can use it to upload CGIs written in compiled languages like Go). If you stick with static sites (like i do) performance shouldn't be a problem at all.