Your website does not need to be a software project.
Most small business sites are five pages that never change. They are being run on a platform built to publish a newspaper — and billed accordingly, forever. There is a smarter way to do this.
A typical five-year spend on a five-page managed site.
Hosting, licences, one refresh
Plugins running on a five-page brochure site.
Representative, not a record
What a site like that needs to weigh.
The same pages as static HTML
What hosting it then costs.
Free tier, no card
Illustrative composites — real figures, representative examples rather than one client's invoices. How that works.
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Need a form? There is a service for that. Need analytics? Same. Once the site is built, it is built — nothing to update, nothing to secure, nothing to renew. It is a little more work up front, and then it is done.
| What | Managed WordPress | Plain HTML |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | $18/mo, managed | $0, free tier |
| Updates | Core, theme, 19 plugins — weekly | None. It is a file. |
| Attack surface | Login page, PHP, plugin code | Static HTML |
| Editing text | Log in, find the block, hope | Open the file, type |
| If you vanish | It breaks within a year | It keeps serving |
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One email when there is a new post. No drip sequence, no webinar, no course.
Posts to a form service. No database, no plugin, no cookie banner.