@Steven - Providing everything that VaultPress does and the site you mentioned has to cost money. My first question would be, how do they plan on making iControlWP a long-term sustainable venture at the prices they are charging. On paper, it's insane that they are only charging about 36 cents a month per website.

@Dave - Yeah, there are always alternatives and no one wants to pay for anything these days but the process you just described sounds like something many people wouldn't want to bother going through. So just paying for a service like this at an affordable prices is just easier.

As for webhosts, how much do you think that's all because of costs?