Fair question. Honest answer: if your goal is simply to get online at the lowest possible cost, those solutions can be a good fit.
You just need to understand what you're buying at that price point.
In most cases, it's a template-based website (Wix, WordPress, etc.) with fonts and colours swapped.
- Standardized design.
- Limited differentiation.
- Put together in a few hours by someone who doesn't understand your business.
At that price, the provider simply cannot go further without losing money.
The real cost comes later:
- Security: Due to their widespread use, these platforms are common targets for attacks. Without proper maintenance, vulnerabilities can appear quickly. A security breach can cost you €300 to €3,000 in cleanup, €5,000 to €20,000+ for more serious cases (sources MaintenanceWordPress and SecuriteWP), and it directly impacts your reputation.
- Performance: Generic themes and plugins often introduce unnecessary overhead. Without advanced optimization, load times degrade over time, impacting both SEO and conversion rates. The average loading time of a WordPress website on mobile in 2026 is 13.25 s (source Hostinger). Google silently demotes you. Your site becomes invisible.
- Maintenance: These systems rely on third-party plugins that require regular updates to remain secure and functional. You end up paying for monthly updates for 3 years (€50–€150 each), with plugins fighting each other and random bugs piling up.
- Scalability: The site is constrained by its initial structure. As new needs arise, plugins (sometimes paid ones) and patches accumulate. The system becomes more complex, slower, and harder to evolve. In many cases, this leads to a full rebuild within 1–2 years.
After 18 months, you may have spent more than a custom-built solution, on a system that performs poorly and likely needs to be replaced.
With YellowCraft, you pay more upfront because you avoid recurring structural costs tied to poorly suited architecture.
- No technical debt.
- No mandatory monthly maintenance.
- No plugins for features you genuinely need.
- No full overhaul required in 2 years.
- A site that scales with you, not against you.
When low-cost solutions make sense: personal project or test run, temporary presence or side project with no commercial stakes, if you don't have strict performance requirements or mind limitations in scalability, SEO, and security.
If your business depends on it, we don't recommend it.