01The ledger for a small site, per year
| Line | WordPress | LoomWeb |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | $180 to $360 | Included in the plan |
| Theme and plugin licences | $100 to $300 | $0 |
| Care plan (or your evenings) | $360 to $1,200 | $0 |
| Compromise cleanup | $0 to $600, unscheduled | $0 |
| Hosting with us | the flat plan |
Ranges are honest midpoints for a small brochure site in Australia, not quotes.
02The visible stack
03The visible stack
New here? Start at the pillar page for the full picture.
Budget hosting, call it $15 to $30 a month. A premium theme, roughly $60 a year. Two or three paid plugins, $100 to $300 a year. That is the part people compare when they compare hosting.
The line that decides arguments sits under it. A care plan from a competent agency runs $30 to $100 a month, so $360 to $1,200 a year. Doing the work yourself costs the same value in evenings you do not want to spend. Neither option removes the list, as the maintenance page describes.
04The occasional line that surprises people
A cleanup after a compromise, $200 to $600 through a specialist. A rescue after a bad update broke checkout on a Friday. A speed pass when the site drifted. These are not every year, which is exactly why they sting: the budget never contained them. Over three years, a quiet small-business WordPress site commonly costs several thousand dollars to keep being a WordPress site.
05The same site, static
Managed static hosting is a flat annual number covering hosting, certificates, deploys, rollbacks and the contact endpoint. There is no care plan to buy because there is nothing for it to do: there is nothing to update, scan or patch. The remaining work is content changes, which a coding agent turns into a minutes-long request. For honesty: if the site runs a shop or earns through plugins, that income is paying for a stack the static route cannot host, and the small business page helps test which case you are in.
06Frequently Asked Questions
What does LoomWeb cost a year?
Twelve times the monthly price. No care plan, no plugin licences, no surprise line. The trial is two weeks free and cancelling inside it charges nothing.
Is there a migration cost?
If you or your coding agent do it, an evening of work. The conversion guide is the checklist. A contractor quote for a small site typically lands under a single year of care plans.
Do I still need premium plugins?
Forms, SEO machinery and caching get replaced by the platform. A premium plugin doing real application work usually means that part of the site belongs on an application platform, which is worth knowing.
Any usage surprises?
No compute overages. Serving files is cheap. If a site genuinely outgrows the plan we would rather talk than invoice a surprise.
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