Choice of web stack for your website

Evaluating technology stacks has been a long part of the web development process. Choosing Apps and CMS environments can have a significant impact of your bottom line. Pushing messaging to customers and clients is also rapidly changing and ever evolving. Having a map of tech stacks is more complex than a site a CRM or a CMS. There is a whole layer of screen to screen tech, through which a company orchestrates, plans and delivers messaging service and value.

I’m planning on a series of articles explore the screen to screen ecology of B2B and B2C enterprises. “Codey’s” 25 year investment in web had matured into a superlative skill set of network tools and techniques. I have grown from hand coding in Dreamweaver to running a small web hosting and web development business along side of a media production business which has strengths in quality and messaging.

There are countless articles arguing Wordpress vs Wix or some other platform. I’m not going to cover that ground. I am interested in the whole ecology of running and maintaining websites, client happiness, server loads, longevity of code.

I’m not a fan of WordPress.

In Australian Ceramics I demonstrate the huge server loads that WordPress demanded to run the site. Compared to the rebuild in Perch we made massive energy savings to the server loads. The savings were also because the build was bespoke –a theme developed fit for purpose. This meant that no superfluous code or image was delivered to the viewer. Typically an un-optimised WordPress site will perform quite poorly in any site performance metric. You can optimise WordPress. You can run it in a custom server build. And you can get good performance figures for WordPress. It requires quarterly updates, fine tuning with caching plugins and caching DNS.

Suddenly free software is not free.

to be continued..