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Keeping a site stable on a small fixed budget — what to pay for, what to skip, and when the skipping comes due. Broken down by real cost line items.
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Servers & infrastructure Intro
Comparing monthly rates alone never matches what you actually spent after a year. Traffic, backups, mail and renewal pricing sit outside the headline figure — count them first.
Servers & infrastructure Intro
You do not move because a VPS is better — you move because something is blocked. The signals are specific, and what grows after the move is responsibility,…
Themes & plugins Intro
Compare feature tables and the paid tier always wins. The founder's criterion is not features but the weight of your data — what you lose if the tool…
Performance optimization Practical
Images are usually the heaviest part of a page, and shrinking them costs almost nothing if you do it in order. The CDN belongs at the end, not…
Servers & infrastructure Practical
Run your own mail server and the invoice is near zero — you pay in deliverability instead. Which is cheaper depends on what one enquiry is worth to…
Security Practical
The question is not whether you have a backup but how many hours it takes to be back. A free setup goes a long way — as long…
Performance optimization Practical
Problems that a bigger plan fixes and problems it never touches are separate from the start. Upgrade without telling them apart and you have spent money and kept…
Development workflow Practical
Fixed costs cause trouble not when they grow but when they are forgotten. Here is a review that starts from the statement rather than from a list of…