fleetpages vs WordPress
The short version: WordPress gives you an admin panel and makes the upkeep your job. fleetpages gives you staff and makes the upkeep our job. Here is the long version, honestly, including the cases where WordPress is the right call. We build both, so we have no reason to pretend.
Making a change
Log in, find the right page in the block editor or page builder, make the change without nudging the layout, and hope it looks the same on a phone. Or send it to your web person and wait for their queue.
Say it in plain English, however suits: email your site's own address, chat from the dashboard, or open your own live page and point at the thing. On the page, from a laptop or a phone, you can retype a line where it sits, remove something, move it, swap a photo, draw on it, or stick a note to the exact spot and dictate it out loud, then send the lot with one button. A preview of the real page comes back in minutes, you approve it, it's live. Nothing to learn, no queue, works at 11pm from wherever you are.
Keeping it working
Core updates, theme updates, plugin updates: each one a small chance of something breaking, forever. Skip them and the site slowly becomes a security risk. This is why care plans exist.
There is nothing to update. Your site is fast static pages with no moving parts to patch, and the checks that keep it healthy run on our side, included.
Getting hacked
A login page facing the internet, a database behind it, and dozens of plugins each a potential way in. Most hacked small-business sites are WordPress sites with an out-of-date plugin. It's the biggest target on the web.
There is no admin login to attack and no database behind your pages. Publishing only happens through the preview-and-approve gate, from email addresses you registered.
Speed
Every visit is assembled by PHP and a database on a shared server, then usually patched up with caching plugins. Fast WordPress is achievable; it's just ongoing work.
Pages are already built and served from Cloudflare's global edge, so nothing has to be assembled when a visitor arrives. The measurement we publish is a real client site on its real domain, tested from a Sydney node: 96% performance, largest paint in about half a second, no layout shift worth the name. And honestly: a well-kept WordPress site can measure just as well, and some do. The story isn't that WordPress is always slow. It's that fast WordPress is ongoing work someone has to keep doing, and here it's simply what a page is. The numbers, with the date on them.
What it costs, in shape
Hosting, plus plugin and theme licences, plus a care plan if you want updates handled, which typically buys a fraction of an hour of changes a month on a day-or-two turnaround. The pieces add up, separately.
One bill from $59 a month: the workplace (hosting, monitoring, backups, tracked enquiry leads) plus an AI Manager whose whole job is your site, with changes back in minutes. WordPress gives you an admin panel; fleetpages gives you staff. All of it on the agents page.
Owning it
Genuinely yours, and that's one of WordPress's real strengths. Your content lives in your database and can move hosts, with some wrangling.
Also genuinely yours, and simpler about it: your domain and content are always yours, and your site is portable static files. If you ever leave, it goes with you as-is.
Where WordPress genuinely wins
Pick WordPress if...
- ✓You want to open an editor and move things around yourself, visually, every week
- ✓You're running an established WooCommerce store that's working well. (Building a store fresh? Ask us: we build commerce on Cloudflare too, and quote both paths honestly.)
- ✓Your site depends on a specific plugin ecosystem: memberships, LMS, directories, complex bookings
- ✓You want to choose and run your own hosting
If that's you, Jezweb builds excellent WordPress sites every week and will look after you properly. Same people, different tool.
Pick fleetpages if...
- ✓You want the website handled: changes made for you in minutes, nothing to learn or maintain
- ✓Your site's job is to present the business and bring in enquiries, and you want every lead tracked
- ✓You're tired of update notices, plugin bills and "log in and do it yourself"
- ✓You want it fast, safe and measured, without being the person responsible for that
Moving is a build, not a battle.
Since day one we've moved our clients onto the next faster thing. The whole client book came off cPanel onto Cloudflare-backed NVMe hosting years ago, because it made the websites faster and safer. Every client's forms went from Google reCAPTCHA to Cloudflare Turnstile. Caching upgrades, more times than we can count. Nobody was ever charged for any of it. This is the next jump, and it's the biggest yet.
Your content comes across and the design is rebuilt properly: better pages, measured speed, nothing lost. You see the whole replacement live on a private preview before anything switches, there's no downtime in the changeover, and your old WordPress site stays exactly as it is until you say go.
The question everyone asks: will I lose my Google rankings? A move is when rankings usually get lost, so we engineered the move around not losing them. Every page that earns you traffic is kept or redirected to its new home, and automated checks test every old address against the new site before anything switches. Your email records aren't touched either, so mail just keeps working.
Builds start at $990 +GST, and revamps of an existing site are the same honest pricing. Build pricing is on the pricing page.
Already hosted with Jezweb on WordPress? Say so when you enquire: we know your site, the move is easier than you'd think, and we look after our own.
- ✓ your content, brought across
- ✓ design rebuilt properly, measured
- ✓ every earning URL kept or redirected
- ✓ every old address tested pre-switch
- ✓ mail records untouched
- ✓ full preview before anything switches
- ✓ no downtime in the changeover
- ✓ domain stays yours, always
What the audit keeps finding
Every move starts with an audit of the site as it really is, and the findings are usually more persuasive than anything we could promise. Real examples from recent rebuilds, anonymised:
1A phone number typo'd on two pages. Nobody had noticed. Customers had.
214% of Google clicks landing on deleted pages that showed visitors an error instead of the business.
321 photos of the owner's real work sitting unused while the site ran on stock imagery.
4Hundreds of clicks a year of out-of-region demand arriving on dead pages, with nobody the wiser.
5Empty search titles and descriptions across a whole site, plus around 100 auto-generated URLs bloating what Google crawls.
6Location pages 91.5% identical to each other, the kind of duplication search engines quietly stop rewarding.
Everything found goes on your improvements ledger, and everything fixed is shown to you at review. Proof of care beats promise of capability.
Show us the site you're wrestling with.
Send the address and we'll reply by email with what we'd do, what it would cost, and whether you'd honestly be better off staying on WordPress. Straight answer either way.
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