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Database-driven legacy platforms like WordPress carry massive hidden operational overhead. Drag the sliders below to calculate cash outlays and owner hours spent maintaining a legacy site vs. a zero-maintenance static rebuild.
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Standard shared or managed WordPress server packages.
Premium forms, SEO tools, caching engines, and element builders.
What you pay an agency to monitor, check backups, and click update buttons.
Emergency fees to restore databases, scan for malware, and fix layout breaks.
Time spent uploading assets, posting blogs, backing up, or troubleshooting.
What your hours are worth as a business owner or administrator.
Annual Cost Projection
By compiling code to static HTML and serving from Cloudflare's edge CDN nodes, we drop recurring server fees, plugin licenses, database repair bills, and update hours to zero*.
Cloudflare Pages serves pre-compiled static assets across 300+ global edge locations (including Seattle and Anchorage caches) with unlimited bandwidth and zero monthly server hosting fees on standard business deployments.
Legacy CMS stacks require recurring paid licenses for visual builders, caching engines, backup utilities, and forms. Static-first architectures compile all layout and form logic into raw HTML/CSS/JS, eliminating plugin renewal fees entirely.
Because static platforms contain no SQL database and no PHP server execution, they eliminate common attack vectors (SQL injections, brute-force logins, database corruption). There is no database to patch, backup, or repair.
Clients maintain direct ownership and payment of their primary domain registration (~$10–$20/year to their registrar of choice) and any dedicated transactional integrations (e.g. Stripe processing fees or Google Workspace inboxes). Routine hosting, CMS maintenance, and security patching overhead remain $0.