Website & Hosting Review
If your website and servers need a caching layer, a firewall, constant plugin updates and weekend calls just to stay fast and safe, the setup may be costing more than it should. This review adds up the real cost of what you run today and recommends the setup your team can actually maintain.
Who it's for
- Your websites or databases run on servers your team manages, or on hosting nobody has reviewed in years.
- The site slows down when traffic spikes or a plugin changes.
- You pay for caching, security plugins or a firewall just to keep it standing, and your team gets called on weekends.
- You're not sure whether to stay on WordPress, go headless or move to a static site.
What I do
- Add up the real cost of what you run today: staff time, servers, plugins, security, caching, backups and on-call.
- Map who publishes content, how often and how much they rely on the editor.
- Compare managed hosting, WordPress behind a fast static front end and a fully static site, then recommend the one your team can run, including when WordPress is still the right answer.
This is a cost and platform review. It doesn't include designing new infrastructure or rebuilding the site; either can be scoped as a separate project once the plan is set.
What you get
- A written cost comparison of your current setup and the options
- A recommendation with the trade-offs for your team
- A migration outline if a change makes sense
Where this comes from
At a broadcasting company with 7 websites, this kind of review showed that self-hosting cost about $250,000 a year, while managed hosting cost about $125,000 and ended weekend on-call calls. On my own site, moving from WordPress to a static site took mobile PageSpeed from a range of 65 to 75 to a consistent 98.
Read the hosting case study Read how I moved my own site off WordPress
The Website & Hosting Review is $1,800 (two to three weeks, for one website and the servers behind it). If it shows you need more than a review, the 30-day audit or an ongoing engagement is the next step.