WebGlo
The WordPress Trap
For over a decade, the web development industry has been held hostage by the “Monolith.”
You know the setup: A LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) running a heavy CMS like WordPress. Every time a user visits your homepage, the server has to wake up, query a database, stitch together HTML, and send it back.
It’s inefficient. It’s insecure. And frankly, it’s obsolete.
At WebGlo, we realized that 90% of business websites don’t need a database call for every page load. They aren’t social networks. They are digital storefronts. They need to be fast, secure, and always online.
So, we killed the monolith.
Enter the Jamstack
We migrated our entire infrastructure—and our client sites—to a Jamstack architecture.
JAM stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup. Instead of building the page on the server every time someone asks for it, we build it once when we deploy it.
Our Tech Stack
- Jekyll (The Generator): We use Jekyll to compile our code into pure, static HTML and CSS. There is no database to hack. There is no PHP to update.
- GitHub (The Source): Our code lives in version control. We have a complete history of every change, and we can roll back instantly if something breaks.
- Cloudflare (The Edge): This is the secret sauce. We deploy our static files to Cloudflare’s global CDN.
Why “The Edge” Changes Everything
In a traditional hosting setup, your website lives on a single server in, say, Virginia. If a user visits from London, their request has to travel across the Atlantic, wait for the server to think, and travel back.
With Cloudflare, our site lives in 330+ cities simultaneously.
When a user in London visits a WebGlo site, they are served from a data center in London. When a user in Tokyo visits, they get it from Tokyo.
The Results?
- Speed: Our average Time to First Byte (TTFB) dropped from 600ms to 50ms. That is a 12x improvement.
- Security: With no database to hack, SQL injection attacks are mathematically impossible. We don’t need security plugins because there is nothing to hack.
- Reliability: If a server goes down, the traffic is automatically routed to the next nearest node. Our uptime is effectively 100%.
Why This Matters for Your Business
You might be thinking, “I don’t care about tech stacks, I just want a website.”
But you do care about Revenue.
- Google Loves Speed: Core Web Vitals are a ranking factor. Faster sites rank higher.
- Conversion Rates: Amazon found that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. If your site takes 3 seconds to load, you are losing customers before they even see your logo.
- Maintenance Costs: No more “WordPress Update” emails. No more broken plugins. The site just works.
The Future is Static
The era of the monolithic CMS is ending for small-to-medium businesses. The overhead is too high, and the performance penalty is too great.
We built our Landing Page Express service on this exact architecture because we believe that every business deserves enterprise-grade performance without the enterprise price tag.
Stop paying for a slow, insecure server. Move to the edge.
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