Comparison

SiteHike vs a WordPress agency

The most common way these sites get built, and what it means for you two years in.

The short version

Most home service websites are WordPress. It is the default, it is flexible, and there are more people who can work on it than any other platform. None of that is a criticism.

The difference shows up later, in maintenance and in who has to think about it.

Build fee up front, plus hosting, plus a maintenance retainer for updates
Typical cost with them
No build fee, from $247 a month, hosting $300 a year billed by Webflow
What SiteHike costs

How each one works

Their approach

A WordPress build gives you a genuinely open platform. You can host it anywhere, hire almost anyone to work on it, and add a plugin for nearly anything you can think of.

The cost is upkeep. Core updates, theme updates, plugin updates and security patches all have to happen, and when a plugin conflict takes the site down at nine on a Friday, somebody has to be paid to fix it. Sites built cheaply on a page builder with fifteen plugins are also usually the slow ones on a phone, and speed is not a cosmetic issue when the customer is standing in a driveway on cell service.

Our approach

We build in Webflow. There are no plugins to update, no security patches to chase, and hosting is handled by Webflow directly at $300 a year billed to you, not marked up through us.

The honest trade is that Webflow is a hosted platform. You can export the site, but you cannot host it in quite as many places as WordPress, and some very specialized functionality is easier on WordPress than on Webflow. If you need that, we will tell you.

Who each one suits
  • Go WordPress if you need a membership system, a real online store, or a specific integration that only exists as a WordPress plugin, and you have someone to maintain it.
  • Come to us if the site's job is to get found and get the phone ringing, and you never want to think about an update again.

See what we would do with your site

A free audit of your website, your Google listing, and your local rankings. Then decide who you want building it.