Your website should bring you customers, not problems. Yet many business owners we meet are stuck with a WordPress site that loads slowly, keeps asking for updates, and costs RM900 to RM2,000+ a year in agency hosting and maintenance fees.
If that sounds like you, there’s a simpler way. Here’s why older websites get expensive to look after, what a simpler kind of website can do for your business, and how we make the switch without you lifting a finger.
Is your website costing you too much?
Answer yes or no to these seven questions. You don’t need any technical knowledge, and it’s best done before your next website renewal.
- Does your website feel slow, especially on your phone?
- Have customers or staff told you the website didn’t load or looked broken?
- Have you paid extra to fix something on your website in the past year?
- Has your website ever been hacked, or shown strange pages or ads?
- Do you pay more than RM900 a year for website hosting and maintenance?
- Are you unsure exactly what your yearly website fee covers?
- Do you get emails about website updates or renewals that you don’t understand?
| Your “yes” answers | What it means |
|---|---|
| 4 to 7 | Your website is costing you more than it should. You could likely get a faster, safer site for less. |
| 2 to 3 | There’s room to save and improve. A free website check will show you where. |
| 0 to 1 | Your website is in decent shape. Run through this list again before your next renewal. |
Why WordPress websites get expensive to maintain
WordPress is popular for good reason. It’s flexible and lets you build almost any kind of website.
But a typical business WordPress site is built from many add-ons (plugins), made by different companies. Each one needs regular updates. When they fall behind, the site slows down, things start breaking, and hackers find a way in.
Someone has to watch over all of this, all year round. That’s a big part of what your annual maintenance fee pays for. A well-looked-after WordPress site can run perfectly well, but many small business sites aren’t looked after, and owners only find out when something goes wrong.
A simpler kind of website
There’s another way to build a business website, with far fewer moving parts.
Think of a restaurant. A WordPress site cooks every dish from scratch each time a customer orders. A static website has the dish ready the moment the customer sits down. Same menu, much faster service.
Because your pages are prepared in advance, there’s much less that can slow down, break or be hacked. And there’s much less to maintain, which is why it costs less to run.
What this means for your business
- Faster pages. Visitors don’t wait, so more of them stay and get in touch.
- Far harder to hack. No add-ons left open to attack, and no login page for hackers to target.
- No update worries. Nothing for you to update, renew or fix.
- Easier to find on Google. Fast, well-built pages give you a stronger start in Google and in AI search tools like ChatGPT.
- Enquiries straight to you. Website forms can send each enquiry straight to your WhatsApp or email, and we can automate what happens next, so no lead slips through.
- Lower yearly cost. From RM500 a year.
What should website maintenance cost a year?
Many agencies charge RM900 to RM2,000+ a year to host and maintain a business WordPress website. Much of that goes into keeping a heavy system running: the server, the plugin updates, the security fixes and the time spent fixing what breaks. A static website needs almost none of that, and we pass the savings on to you.
| Typical agency WordPress package | Rechner static website | |
|---|---|---|
| Yearly hosting and maintenance fee | RM900 to RM2,000+ | From RM500 |
| Updates to manage | Regular plugin and theme updates | None for you to handle |
| Risk of being hacked | Grows when updates are missed | Much lower |
| Speed | Slows down as add-ons pile up | Fast by design |
What’s included from RM500 a year: hosting, an SSL security certificate (the padlock in the browser), uptime monitoring, and occasional small text and image updates. Need email addresses on your own domain, like [email protected]? Just WhatsApp us and we’ll help.
The one-off cost of switching. Moving your current website is quoted by the number of pages, and typically ranges from RM500 to RM2,000 depending on the size and complexity of your current website. After that, you just pay the yearly fee.
Real results: Tooth Buddy Dental Clinics
Tooth Buddy runs six dental clinics across Selangor and the Klang Valley, and has been our client since 2024, when we started looking after its WordPress website. In August 2026, we rebuilt it as a static website, with its own page for every clinic and treatment, in both English and Bahasa Malaysia.
Fast for real visitors on their phones
Tooth Buddy’s new website passes Google’s Core Web Vitals assessment on mobile. This isn’t a one-off lab test. It’s measured from real visitors’ phones over 28 days: the main content appears in about 2 seconds, the page responds to a tap in under 0.2 seconds, and nothing jumps around while it loads.
Google PageSpeed Insights, November 2026: Core Web Vitals passed on mobile, based on real visitors’ data.
PageSpeed Insights is Google’s free tool for measuring how fast a website loads and how smooth it feels on a phone. You can test your own website in under a minute.
Clicks and impressions doubled in 3 months
Since the new site went live, the number of times Tooth Buddy appears in Google search results (impressions) and the number of people clicking through to the site (clicks) have both roughly doubled. Daily clicks went from around 10 to 20 or more, and daily impressions from under 1,000 to close to 2,000.
Google Search Console, August to November 2026: 1,640 clicks and 137,000 impressions in 3 months.
Showing up in AI answers
More people now get their answers from AI instead of a list of links. Google shows AI-generated answers at the top of many searches, and those answers point to the websites they’re based on. Tooth Buddy appeared in them 9,370 times in 3 months, growing from under 25 times a day in early August to more than 150 a day by late October.
More people are finding Tooth Buddy on Google and AI searches since the new site went live. (Google Search Console, Generative AI features report.)
Read the full Tooth Buddy case study.
Will I lose my Google rankings?
Not when the move is done properly. Rankings usually drop when old page addresses stop working or content goes missing during a move, so we protect both.
We keep every existing page address working, or point it to its new home. We carry over your page titles and content, tell Google about the new site through Search Console, and monitor your Google performance for 8 weeks after launch. Small ups and downs in the first few weeks are normal while Google catches up. If anything stays down, we fix it. You don’t need to do anything.
Is this right for every business?
Not always. If you run a full online shop with carts and payments, or need customer logins and accounts, you may need a different setup. We’ll tell you honestly which option suits your business, even if that means keeping your current site.
