Need a new Church website... [View all]

My UU church has one of those Wordpress websites. Wordpress has some advantages, but this site was set up so horribly that I'm thinking of starting from scratch somewhere else.

I haven't done a website since years ago when I actually coded in HTML 5 and it was almost fun. Nowadays, it's all simple click&play and you end up with pages of spaghetti code that you can't easily move around. OK, I can sort of deal with that, but I could use some advice
before starting.

After looking at pages and pages of "Best Web Hosting..." articles, HostGator keeps popping up in the top 5 or so. Anybody use them?

Stupid question, and I'll eventually ask them, but it's unclear so far on any of the hosting sites whether I have to accept advertising. All of them brag about their connection to Google, but I don't want ads. Or is this something I deal with when setting it up?