WordPress alternative
The WordPress Alternative
WordPress hands you a website plus a maintenance job you never asked for. Updates, plugins, security and backups, forever, and it is your name on it when something breaks.
Point for point
Every row below is a fact you can check yourself, not our opinion.
A content management system to administer. Core updates, plugin updates, theme updates, security and backups, forever, and it is your name on it.
A finished website. There is nothing to log into, nothing to update and nothing that breaks while you are not looking.
Never stops. Out-of-date plugins are the single most common way small business sites get compromised, and the updates arrive whether you have time or not.
None. Static pages have no admin panel and no plugins, so there is no update treadmill to fall off.
A login page, a database and third-party plugin code you did not write: the standard attack surface, probed automatically, around the clock.
Static files. No login to brute-force, no database to inject, nothing for a bot to find.
Depends on hosting, theme and plugin count, and usually needs caching plugins bolted on to reach what plain static pages do by default.
Fast by construction, with no caching layer needed to make it so.
Hosting, plus premium plugins, plus a theme, plus a monthly maintenance retainer or your own weekends. The build fee is the smallest part of it.
One build fee. Hosting is free, there is nothing to maintain, and there is no retainer.
Days to weeks through an agency, or however many weekends you can give it yourself.
Hours. Your design usually lands the same day you send your material, and the build follows once you approve it.
You do, or whoever you can find and pay; an update conflict on a Friday is your problem to solve.
Nothing to break, and 24/7 chat with the developers who built it if anything ever needs changing.
Why people move
The reasons we hear most often from owners who came to us from WordPress.
I got hacked, or my host told me my plugins were out of date
It broke after an update and I have no idea why
I am paying somebody a monthly retainer just to keep it running
It is slow and every fix means installing another plugin
I only needed six pages and a phone number, not a publishing system
Send your current pages as the starting document. From $199, and you approve the design before we build.
Switching from WordPress
It is less powerful in exactly the ways a local business never uses, and better in every way it does: faster, unhackable in practice, and with nothing to maintain. For a site of five to fifteen pages with a contact form and a blog, that WordPress power is not being used; you are just paying for it in maintenance, security exposure and page speed.
Yes. Both kits include a blog and it is part of the Full Website build: posts publish as fast static pages, and on the fully managed plan we write and publish them for you. What you give up is an admin panel with thirty pending updates in it.
You message us and we make the change, usually the same day, or you edit the files yourself if you are technical; the code is standard and it is yours. What does not happen is you logging in, updating six plugins, and finding out that one of them has broken the homepage.
We rebuild rather than inherit it, and that almost always costs less than paying someone to untangle a stranger's plugin stack. Send the existing site as your starting document and the content comes across into something with no maintenance burden attached. If you have the code in a git repository, link it on your dashboard and we can work from that directly.
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Send a doc and we hand-code it, or start from a kit and build it yourself
- Nothing built until you approve the design
- Live on your own domain
- Real code, yours to keep