Recently, a sponsored article from one of the largest Slovak hosting companies popped up on my social media feed. In it, a developer shares his "confession"—how, after years, he got tired of maintaining his custom static Vue.js app, got annoyed by the complex deployment process, and returned to WordPress with a massive sense of relief.

I completely understand his frustration. However, as a digital architect, I have to point out one crucial thing: he identified the right problem, but chose the absolute worst treatment. And traditional hosting companies absolutely love this narrative. Let's look under the hood.

Where did it go wrong?

Maintaining a pure Single Page Application (SPA) solely in Vue, manually writing code for every new article, and deploying it via Docker containers on a custom VPS server is truly pure hell for managing a simple blog. It is a massive overkill that kills productivity.

The developer was right that it was eating up his time. His solution, however, was to delete the modern code, pay for classic hosting, and install a monolithic WordPress just to get a nice admin dashboard. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

The tax on convenience and why hosting companies love it

WordPress is a great tool for beginner bloggers, and if perfectly optimized, it can handle a lot. But the moment you use it for a professional portfolio without deep maintenance knowledge, you are signing up for technical debt.

You get an administration panel, but in return you get:

The need to constantly update the core and plugins, otherwise you become a target for hackers.
Constant database calls on every page load, which slows down the web.
The necessity to install additional plugins (caching, SEO, security) that bloat the code even further.

And why do hosting companies promote this step backward so eagerly? Because WordPress requires constant computing power (PHP + MySQL) to run. If your traffic spikes, your site crashes unless you pay them for a more expensive server.

How I do it: Uncompromising speed

My philosophy is different. I refuse to compromise between writing convenience and website performance.

Today, you no longer have to choose between a "complex Vue app" and a "slow WordPress". When designing architectures (including for this website), I use Nuxt 4 combined with Vercel cloud infrastructure.

What is my workflow when I want to publish this article?

I don't open any slow admin panel or log in anywhere.
I create a simple Markdown text file in my editor.
I run git push.

That's it. The infrastructure takes care of the rest.

An impenetrable fortress

The moment I push the code, Vercel detects the change and prerenders the entire article into static HTML within seconds.

The result? The website loads instantly for the visitor because the server doesn't have to compute anything or pull data from a database. And as for security—there is no wp-admin here, no connected SQL database. There are simply no backdoors for hackers to break through.

Don't dismiss custom development just because you chose the wrong, clunky workflow in the past. Proper digital architecture shouldn't be a compromise. It must serve you, not the server vendors.

Interested in how a blazing-fast, maintenance-free web can work for your business? Contact me and I will design an architecture that won't age.