How most websites actually get hacked
Almost no small-business hack is a genius in a hoodie. It is automation: bots scanning the internet around the clock for the same three doors — outdated plugins with known holes, admin login pages to brute-force, and databases vulnerable to injection. Typical page-builder websites carry all three, which is why they dominate the hacked-site statistics.
The smart approach: remove the doors entirely
A smart website takes a different route. Our static builds ship as pure, pre-rendered pages: no database to inject, no public admin panel to brute-force, no plugin ecosystem quietly going stale. A bot scanning for the usual doors finds a wall. The dynamic tools that need power — payments, bookings — run on hardened, separated infrastructure with their own protections.
The rest of the shield
Every site sits on our own dedicated servers (not crowded shared hosting where a neighbour’s hacked site becomes your problem), behind Cloudflare edge protection, with SSL encryption standard on every build. Card payments run through certified gateways — WiPay, Stripe and peers — meaning card numbers never touch your website at all, which is stronger security than any promise about storing them. And with Hosting & Care, backups and security updates happen every month as routine, not as a panic after something breaks.
The honest fine print
Nothing online is “unhackable” and anyone claiming so is selling something. What smart architecture does is make you a dramatically harder target than the average website — and in security, the harder target is the one bots skip. Security also pays twice: Google favours fast HTTPS sites, so the same design that protects you helps you rank. Curious what a secure-by-design site costs? The price calculator answers in 60 seconds.