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The website you're reading
costs $0 to host.

It loads instantly, can't be hacked, and went from idea to live in hours. This is the stack behind it — and the case for building every client site this way.

The stack

Five tools. One ridiculously fast website.

No servers to manage. No plugins to update. Just the essentials, each doing one thing exceptionally well.

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Astro

Builds the site into pure HTML.

Astro renders every page to static HTML at build time and ships zero JavaScript unless a component explicitly asks for it. There's no framework runtime hydrating the whole page just to make one button work — only the pieces that need to be interactive ever become interactive.

  • Zero JS by default — interactivity is opt-in, component by component
  • Pages are built once, not re-rendered on every visit
  • Lighthouse scores in the high 90s and 100s without any tuning

Why it's hereLoads near-instantly and ranks better, out of the box.

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Cloudflare

Serves it from 300+ cities worldwide.

Cloudflare Workers puts a copy of the built site on servers in every major city on earth, so whoever requests it gets served from the one nearest them. It's the same edge network that shields a huge share of the internet from attacks — applied here to a client's landing page, for free.

  • Free, unlimited bandwidth — a traffic spike never turns into a bill
  • DDoS protection and TLS built in — nothing to patch, nothing to configure
  • Deploys straight from git — push to main, live worldwide in about 30 seconds

Why it's hereUnlimited bandwidth, free, and nothing to patch or secure.

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Resend

Delivers every lead to the inbox.

Resend is a transactional email API built for developers, not marketers. Every form submission fires a real email from the client's own domain with proper DKIM and SPF, so it lands in the primary inbox instead of getting buried by a plugin nobody remembers to check.

  • Sent from the client's own domain — not a shared IP or a plugin's mail server
  • Delivery in under a second, with logs and retries if something bounces
  • Free tier easily covers thousands of leads a month

Why it's hereReliable notifications sent from our domain, not a plugin.

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Zapier

Routes each submission automatically.

The moment a form is submitted, Zapier picks it up and pushes it wherever it needs to go — a CRM, a spreadsheet, a Slack channel, a text message — without a custom backend to write or a queue to babysit.

  • One Zap per client, built once, running forever
  • Connects to 6,000+ apps — whatever they already use, no migration required
  • No code to write, no server to host it on

Why it's hereStraight to their CRM, spreadsheet, or email tool — no manual anything.

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Claude

Designs and builds alongside us.

Claude doesn't just hand back code snippets to wire together — it plans the page, writes the copy, builds the components, and cleans up after itself in the same sitting. What used to take a week of back-and-forth with a developer now happens in an afternoon, next to whoever owns the pitch.

  • Full pages built from a one-paragraph brief
  • The session that writes the copy also ships the working code
  • Revisions happen live, in the room, instead of in a ticket queue

Why it's hereClient sites shipped in hours, not weeks.

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Why this beats WordPress + Cloudways

Everything WordPress makes hard, this makes disappear.

Same result for the client. None of the baggage for us.

  • Old wayA server you rent foreverNew wayHosting that's free and global
  • Old wayPlugins that break and get hackedNew wayNothing to exploit — it's just files
  • Old wayConstant updates and security patchesNew wayZero maintenance, ever
  • Old wayDays of setup and troubleshootingNew wayBuilt and live in an afternoon
  • Old wayA monthly bill for every single siteNew wayOne flat cost for the whole agency
“The most secure plugin is the one that doesn't exist.”

The cost difference

Every site we build the old way bills us every month. Forever.

Drag the slider, or grab the graph itself — watch the gap move as our client list grows.

10 sites

1 site — 40 sites · or drag the dots on the graph below

Old way — climbs per siteNew way — flat
Breakeven ≈ 5 sites
1 site40 sites

The way we build now

WordPress + Cloudways

$0

per year, hosting + email alone

Doesn't include plugin licenses, a separate email/SMTP service, or the hours spent on updates and security patches — those stack on top, per site, every year.

The new way

Astro + Cloudflare + Resend

$0

flat, for the whole agency

Hosting and image/asset serving are $0 per site. Claude Max, Zapier, and Resend Pro are one shared bill across every site we build — it doesn't move no matter how many clients we add.

The gap this year$0

That's a bill that simply stops existing. Not a discount.

Assumptions: $336/yr per site assumes a Cloudways DO 2GB server per site — adjust to your real per-site cost. New-way flat cost assumes Claude Max, Zapier, and Resend Pro shared across all sites.

Try it live

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You didn't read a pitch. You used one.

This entire site — the speed, the motion, the working forms — was designed, built, and shipped on this exact stack.

Let's build the next one this way