WordPress development and infrastructure
built to stay up

It can, and it does. TechCrunch and The New Yorker serve millions of page views on WordPress without breaking a sweat. The scale comes from the stack underneath, not the CMS on top: we put FrankenPHP Worker Mode at the front, Redis Object Cache between the application and the database, and once the content library grows past what a single index handles comfortably, we add Elasticsearch for distributed search so query times stay flat as the catalogue keeps expanding.

A typical vendor picks a theme, bolts on a stack of plugins and hands over the keys. We work in the opposite direction and start with what holds the site up. Where most builds reach for a third-party plugin, we tend to write a small, single-purpose one ourselves, so you own the code and there is one less abandoned dependency waiting to break. Every change runs through a CI/CD pipeline with automated tests before it reaches a live server, and the whole thing sits on FrankenPHP Worker Mode rather than a generic shared host.

A classic PHP-FPM setup boots WordPress from zero on every single request, loading the core, the active plugins and the theme before it can render a single byte. Worker Mode skips almost all of that by keeping the booted application resident in memory and reusing it across requests. The result is response times that drop from hundreds of milliseconds into the low double digits, and a server that holds its load instead of buckling when a campaign or a news cycle sends traffic through the roof.

Yes, and your visitors never notice the switch. We stand up a copy on the new infrastructure first, port the theme, and swap the heaviest plugins for lean custom code while the old site keeps serving traffic. Once the staging copy passes its checks, content, media and database move across and we cut over the DNS in a single planned step. The old environment stays warm as a fallback until the new one has proven itself in production.

Downloading WordPress costs nothing, since the software is open source and always has been. The budget goes on the build and the running of it: design, custom development, the integrations a real business needs and the hands that keep it healthy afterwards. A professional business website from PXL starts at NOK 50,000, while platforms carrying heavier integrations tend to land from NOK 200,000 upward. SLA-backed maintenance is billed separately from NOK 2,500/month, and the full breakdown sits on our pricing page rather than behind a sales call.

We do, from NOK 2,500/month. The agreement covers a guaranteed response time, proactive monitoring of uptime and performance, and a process where core, plugin and theme updates are applied and security-tested in a staging copy before they ever reach the live site. Far too many businesses only find our number after a hack has already happened or a botched update has taken the site offline, and cleaning up after the fact always costs more than keeping things patched would have.

WordPress itself is. A dedicated security team maintains the core and patches land quickly when something turns up. What gets sites hacked is rarely the core at all; it is the long tail of plugins and themes nobody has updated in years, each one a door left unlocked. Harden the configuration, put a WAF in front, automate the security updates and keep real eyes on the logs, and the platform comfortably clears the bar that banks and media companies run their public sites on.

It is the most widely used content management system on earth, sitting behind roughly 40 percent of all websites. It began life in 2003 as a blogging tool, but very little of that origin shows today: it now ships with a REST API that lets a separate frontend pull content as JSON, full block-based editing through Gutenberg, and a plugin and theme ecosystem so deep that whatever you are building, something close to it has been solved and shared already.

Almost anything that lives on a URL: company websites, online stores, membership portals, internal knowledge bases and news publications read by millions every day. Add WooCommerce and the same install runs a full checkout, which is why WordPress sits behind a sizeable slice of global e-commerce. Turn on multisite and one installation can run an entire portfolio of sites from a single codebase, which is how franchises and large brands keep dozens of regional sites consistent without maintaining dozens of separate setups.

The plugin downloads for free, but a real store carries real cost. A build meant to take orders and survive a busy season typically starts at NOK 150,000. Wiring up Vipps and Klarna for payment is genuine integration work, and connecting shipping and accounting so orders flow through to fulfilment and the books is more of the same. Then comes operations: budget somewhere between NOK 4,000 and NOK 12,000/month, scaling with order volume and how much uptime your season can tolerate losing.