Why the $300 Website Is the Fastest Way to Spend $3,000
In ancient Greece, a wooden horse was a “gift” — until it opened and spilled trouble. Cheap websites are the same: shiny on day one, but inside it’s bloated code, outdated plugins, and bad SEO. Result: your site crawls, and Google buries you.
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another.” Pre-made templates try to fit everyone — and end up fitting no one. Your voice gets drowned by stock photos, generic copy, and colors that scream “default settings.”
Hidden dependency is the real cost. The bargain dev controls hosting, updates, even your content. Try to leave and watch that “ownership” vanish behind passwords, plugins, and platform lock-in.
Technical debt means the corner you cut today gets invoiced with interest tomorrow. Add a store, bookings, or traffic? Now you’re rebuilding from scratch — paying twice for what should’ve been done once.
A neglected garden grows weeds. Cheap builds rarely include care: no security updates, no SEO maintenance, no optimization. One morning it’s hackers, spam, and broken pages everywhere.
Final Thought: A “cheap” website isn’t cheap — it’s a down payment on future headaches. Or, as Socrates might say if he ran a dev shop: “The unoptimized site is not worth clicking.”
