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Six posts about what a small website actually costs, what it actually needs, and when a platform is genuinely the right call.
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Your brochure site has 43 ways in. It needs zero.
A five-page brochure site, 19 plugins, a theme with a licence key, and a login page the whole internet can see. Here is what each of those actually buys.
The five-year bill nobody quotes you
Hosting, licences, the annual "refresh", the emergency call when the checkout broke. Added up, line by line.
A contact form with no database, no plugin, no backend
Nine lines of HTML and a free form service. It has worked for eleven years and will keep working.
Where to put a static site for $0, honestly compared
Four hosts, what each one actually limits, and which one to pick when you want to never think about it again.
When you genuinely do need WordPress
Memberships, a real shop, daily publishing with non-technical editors. Three cases where a CMS earns every dollar.
I rebuilt a $9,000 agency site in an afternoon
Same content, same photos, one HTML file per page. The hard part was not the code.