WordPress powers an enormous share of the web for good reasons. It is also the platform we most often get called to rescue, and both of those things are true at once.
Get a quote| WordPress | Nostedt Sites | |
|---|---|---|
| Capability ceiling | Very high | Deliberately narrower |
| Plugins | Tens of thousands | None, by design |
| Who applies updates | Someone must | Nothing to update |
| Security exposure | Public admin, constant probing | No admin surface on the site |
| Speed | Depends entirely on setup | Static at the edge |
| Needs a developer | Realistically yes | No |
| Total cost | Build + hosting + plugins + maintenance | Build + one plan |
| Best for | Complex or custom projects | Small businesses that want it handled |
If you have a developer, or you are one, WordPress is more capable than what we do and it is not close. Unlimited extensibility, an enormous ecosystem, and no lock-in. The catch is that all of that assumes somebody is driving.
WordPress is not a service, it is an application you are now responsible for running. That is a completely reasonable thing to take on if you have the capacity. Most small businesses do not, and nobody tells them that at the point of sale, because the agency selling the build is not the one who gets the call in year three.
The pattern is consistent. Year one: excellent, everyone is happy. Year two: a few plugins are behind, the site is a bit slower, the developer is less responsive. Year three: something breaks, the original builder is gone, and the quote to fix it approaches the quote to rebuild it.
That is not WordPress being bad software. It is unmaintained software being unmaintained software.
The content moves, the URLs that carry search value stay put, and everything else gets redirected. The audit before the move is the important part: an older WordPress site usually has pages that are quietly ranking, and those need to be found before anything is switched off.
Your domain stays yours, your email is untouched, and the old site stays up until the new one is answering.
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