Many people start with Tilda, Wix, or just an Instagram page. For testing an idea that is enough. But that choice has a cost that is not obvious at first.
What you give up with a builder:
- Rent: as long as you pay the subscription, the site works. Stop paying and the site is gone. Your own site stays yours.
- Speed: builders drag along a lot of extra code, on a phone it shows, and Google factors speed into rankings.
- Limits: a non-standard form, your own payment logic, a CRM integration, automatic file delivery, all of it is either impossible or a hack.
- Sameness: template sites look alike, and people notice.
When a builder makes sense: you need it "yesterday", the budget is near zero, and it is a temporary shopfront. In other cases a custom site is cheaper over time: a one-off payment instead of a subscription, full control, proper speed, any feature you want.
I build sites on a plain stack and on Next.js, hosted on Cloudflare where running costs are close to nothing. Example, this very site: three languages, a shop with crypto payments, its own admin panel.
Tell me about the business and I will say what you actually need: kovalev.trade/websites
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