Almost everyone asks us on the first call: “but you build it in WordPress, right?”. The answer is no, never. Not out of technical snobbery — out of math. A WordPress site looks cheap the first month and becomes the most expensive of all by the second year. Here’s why, honestly.
The real price isn’t the one on the quote
40% of the web runs on WordPress, and for an honest reason: it starts free and anyone can get their hands on it. The problem is what happens after launch.
A living WordPress site needs hosting that can handle the plugins, licenses for the premium plugins you actually use, and constant updates to the core, the theme and the plugins — and every update is a small bet that nothing breaks. When it does break, and sooner or later it does, you call someone to fix it by the hour.
Add it up over 24 months and the “cheap site” cost more than double the initial quote. Except the bill arrives spread out, one invoice at a time, when you’re already in too deep.
Plugins: depending on code you don’t control
Every plugin is code written by someone else, who can stop updating it whenever they like. An average WordPress site runs 20–30 of them. That means 20–30 external projects that have to stay compatible with each other, with the core and with your hosting’s PHP version. It only takes one to fail to bring down a page — or, worse, to open a security hole.
We don’t want to build your business on a chain of dependencies we don’t control. When we write the code ourselves, we know exactly what every line does, and you don’t pay anyone to keep alive stuff you never asked for.
What we use, and why it shows up in your budget
We work with modern stacks — Astro, Next.js, React, Supabase, Cloudflare. It’s not a fashion choice, it’s three concrete advantages:
- Speed. Our sites load in under a second and score 95–100 on Lighthouse. Google rewards fast sites, and your customers don’t wait.
- Running costs close to zero. Many projects run on serverless infrastructure that, at your volumes, costs close to nothing. No hosting that balloons with traffic.
- Security by design. A static site has no exposed database and no login panel to break into. The attack surface is minimal.
”But then can I edit the content myself?”
Yes — and it’s the right fear to have. WordPress’s promise is exactly this: the panel where you change the text without calling anyone. Good: we give you that too.
For every project we build a lightweight CMS, tailored to the pages you actually update. No dashboard full of items you’ll never use, no risk of breaking the layout with a click. Only the fields you need, where you need them. And the code stays yours: repo, domain, passwords. No lock-in, no agency holding you hostage.
In two lines
WordPress isn’t “wrong”. It’s a choice you pay for two years later, when the theme is broken, the hosting costs more than the site and whoever built it has vanished. We’d rather build something that on launch day is already the worst version you’ll ever see — because from there on it only gets better.
If you have a WordPress site that’s becoming a burden, let’s talk it through on a free call: we’ll tell you straight away, honestly, whether it’s worth migrating. Or take a look at how we build sites and web apps.