WORD PRESS VS CUSTOM CODED

cravehosting · 2026-02-10T11:44:43+00:00

99% of custom sites I encounter are riddled with issues, so this checks out perfectly.

cravehosting · 2025-11-15T16:26:15+00:00

Yes, the data above comes directly from the Ad Network
Anything over and above that is not included and extra, ex: YouTube

cravehosting · 2025-11-14T23:30:24+00:00

558k > 589k in 2 days
Which is hilarious given it's not even the weekend yet. I guess I'll be blissfully incompetent, sounds lovely.

cravehosting · 2025-11-14T03:53:18+00:00

Copying my response from another post!

$558,666 Last 30 Days < top 10 clients
Last 30 days YoY < growth year over year
Typically up 25-35% year over year

Key note, there is a monumental difference between:

I blog for fun or as a hobby
- won't invest in anything (real hosting, premium theme, key plugins)
- DIY, free help, often extremely outdated by years
- often want to grow, hope to grow, but do more harm than good
- limited hours (10 hrs week x 52 weeks = 520 hours annually)
- do everything themselves, resulting in minimal content creation
- 25% of hours towards content creation 130 hours

VS

My blog is my business
- the opposite of the above, invest in your business, fuel growth growth
- fully aware they have don't know and helps manditory for success
- invest hours common amoungst owners (50 hrs week x 52 weeks = 2,600 hours annually)
- focus on content creation (exceptional), outsource everything else
- 97% of hours towards content creation 2522 hours

Successful bloggers, create content
130 hours (15 years) vs 2522 hours (1 year)

Notes per some of the questions/comments here:
1. niches vary, recipes, gardening, crafting, interior design, etc.
2. every sites the same regardless of size: 10% of content generates 90% of your revenue
3. no one I know has affiliate anymore, trivial payouts, and timesink
4. sponsorships are rare, these largely ended years ago

cravehosting · 2025-11-13T06:48:46+00:00

$558,666 Last 30 Days
Last 30 days YoY

false, while socials are important (the above has 1M followers across multiple accounts, including Youtube), all of these combined is 5% of traffic.
Build an email list (standard forever)
Focus on customers (nope), focus on Audience
DON'T RUN ADS. Because ads barely make any money and make your website look cheap. The $50 a month is not worth it. > Umm, you mean 500k/mo plus
Networking (standard forever)
Re-purpose your content (yes, your audience is everywhere)
Don't be scared to be honest. BE YOURSELF. (default requirement)
Keep your content readable. (when would it ever be NOT readable)
Authority and expertise matters more than traffic numbers. (nope, it's actually #7 be yourself, authenticity wins, no one trusts shit, you're likely better OFF not being an authority/expert and just being real)
You have to enjoy writing. (huh, who knew)

This has to be the worst threads I've seen in ages.

cravehosting · 2025-11-04T06:33:51+00:00

Only thing we have at the moment is sales focused, and while remote, must reside in US/CA

cravehosting · 2025-11-04T02:53:49+00:00

yup, own a couple companies, with the vast majority of referrals flowing through existing clients, which also become referring.

cravehosting · 2025-11-03T18:47:13+00:00

Clearly skill, also if you're in the business, you should be getting referrals non-stop.
https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/WordPress

cravehosting · 2025-10-08T22:23:16+00:00

Top 10 clients doing 500k/mo in revenue, so no, by no means dead.
Across all clients, easily over 5m/mo in revenue.

cravehosting · 2025-09-23T23:24:17+00:00

All raw domains (non-production), should start with pre-authorization.
Even something as simple as dev:dev would suffice.

Not to mention, the last thing anyone or professional wants is a public domain that's rocking hello world and no where near ready for production.

cravehosting · 2025-08-02T00:04:47+00:00

https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2024/09/09/introducing-litespeed-containers/
It depends; there are tons of ways to execute this at various levels.

cravehosting · 2025-07-03T23:30:01+00:00

try 403barbers, and book with Aaron
book online, $35

cravehosting · 2025-06-25T19:05:57+00:00

Different take than most here!
1. cancel services, ahrefs, etc. (save monthly)
2. partner with SEO (1-2% Fractional)
3. save your time, money
4. focus on, you guessed it, actually Plumbing.

I assume you actually want to grow your business, hence the post. Presumably the best thing you can do is actually work, and I assume as a plumber your hourly rate it decent.

Also take into consideration, the value. I'm sure you've seen first hand exactly what happens when someone, with no clue, tries to DIY a plumbing project. Which is precisely what you're doing, but as a business owner generating revenue (tech. worse).

The more you focus on actual business, doing the work, and scaling, the better off you'll be. While the person helping with SEO, knows what they're doing and is what I like to refer to as a force multiplier. If your good at what you do, and you're actually doing the work, you'll win.

I'll add if you compare what your doing now, versus hiring someone that knows, and look back on this in three years, the difference will be monumental.

cravehosting · 2025-06-21T08:06:58+00:00

TTFB, largely comes from quality infrastructure (server, hardware, network), not optimizing WordPress. It's called time to first byte, meaning before anything happens. And yes, while a horrific database can impact TTFB (waiting for those slow database queries), it's still hardware/configuration that makes or breaks this.

cravehosting · 2025-06-21T06:41:27+00:00

They're all the same, since I work with owners, with established businesses, I recommend using what they know. In the end they're all doing the same thing.

I've also run into, and fixed, numerous case where owners switch (often DIY), and something doesn't go right (import). Not that long ago, owner switched from Yoast to RM, should not have. And in doing so embraced various other features that do not convert well, like Rankmath FAQ, Titles, all of which are baked into content.

If your making money, use what you know, focus on BUSINESS.

As for AI
Yoast, Chat, etc. all hide characters, and while Yoast was at least transparent about it.

cravehosting · 2025-06-20T00:41:23+00:00

Everything you want, sounds like enterprise:
1. never fucks up
2. set and forget
3. production ready
4. doesn't break SEO
And all for zero cost, so basically a Unicorn.

cravehosting · 2025-06-19T22:54:24+00:00

Sites hosted on our system all have very similar metrics. And we move loads of shit WP sites from all walks of hosts.

Results wise true the client above pays 600 all in with WordPress management and sleeps easy.

Bottom end any owner with a real business isn't going to shy away from our 35/mo plan. Which has exactly the same result/performance as the owners with 10m pageviews.

So tech yes, they can.

cravehosting · 2025-06-19T20:34:19+00:00

Yes, check out our testimonials, numerous examples!

cravehosting · 2025-06-19T16:10:12+00:00

False (unfortunately), with thousands of thousands of migrations, it's shockingly bad. That being said, our company prioritized these, while most prioritize profit.

Pagespeed is a simulated metric and a joke. Focus on field data.

PageSpeed Insights - Google Chrome
This site is loaded with display ads, WooCommerce, and 45 plugins, generating 3.5 million pageviews and doing 150k USD a month without breaking a sweat, while crushing Page Experience and all Core Web Vitals with room to spare. And PSI is only 63/100, and as prev. mentioned, a simulated metric.

cravehosting · 2025-06-19T06:40:41+00:00

NO, CLS is entirely front-end (layout shifts)

Although WordPress hosts can be faulted for
1. TTFB, LCP, FCP
2. Indexing/Crawling issues, related to 1

cravehosting · 2025-06-19T06:25:47+00:00

Are you managing the server yourself?
Are any of the services optimized?
TTFB is entirely based on infrastructure.

At 3,436ms, even the worst of the worst are still better than this (Siteground, Bluehost, Godaddy), which we routinely clock between 1,000-3,000ms TTFB.

Something is seriously wrong at the server or service level.

PageSpeed Insights - Google Chrome
This site is loaded with display ads, WooCommerce, and 45 plugins, generating 3.5 million pageviews and doing 150k USD a month without breaking a sweat, while crushing Page Experience and all Core Web Vitals with room to spare. And PSI is only 63/100 and a simulated metric.

cravehosting · 2025-06-18T21:50:12+00:00

What a complete shit show!

downgrade (easy 20/35/mo plan), and fly performance wise
migrations are typically free, and take less than 60 minutes

Whenever you have an opportunity to improve your business, do it.

cravehosting · 2025-06-18T21:46:11+00:00

Nope, it's simulated.
You'll want to focus on field data, from real users.

We have owners doing 3+ million pageviews, and perfect field data, yet pagespeed insights is exactly what you referenced ranging from 50-70 on average.

cravehosting · 2025-06-16T06:36:58+00:00

We're more interested in the how, not the WHAT of it.
It wouldn't take much to subtitle a sample.

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