The Problem
What WordPress Is Costing You
LeoLabs tracks every object in low Earth orbit for governments and defense agencies. That makes your website a magnet for nation-state actors, intelligence services, and hackers looking for a way in.
Security
9 Active Attack Vectors On Your Current Site
3
critical WordPress patches in a single week
Your security engineer is spending more time babysitting WordPress than doing actual security work.
“It is almost as if they are not even testing these things anymore.”
- Dan, after the third patch
Every one of these is an exposure point that would fail a serious security audit.
Each of these vectors is actively exploitable today.
Frustration
You Deserve Better Than This
Multiple developers have touched this site. Promises were made about who was actually building it. Code was left behind in the wrong places. Orphaned themes live in Dropbox. WordPress was already showing its age when the site was built, and the platform is becoming more antiquated by the day. Your team deserves a website that was built with honesty, clarity, and modern technology from day one.
Time
Time You Are Never Getting Back
No Way to Schedule Content
There is no way to schedule posts, pages, or press releases. Someone has to stay up late or wake up early to manually publish time-sensitive content.
- ×Press releases timed for market open
- ×Event announcements with deadlines
- ×5-person coordination for every publish
Production Crashes During Routine Updates
A routine scan crashed the production site. Recovered from a midnight backup. Stage-to-prod promotion broke the entire site visually and had to be rolled back.
- ×Every deployment risks breaking the live site
- ×Press releases at risk during every push
- ×Stage to prod, hope it works
Babysitting WordPress Full-Time
Dan reviews plugin updates, runs manual scans, triages Wordfence alerts, coordinates deployments, and responds to overnight crashes. WordPress requires constant human attention.
- ×Weekly plugin reviews and compatibility testing
- ×Manual security scans and vulnerability checks
- ×3am crash recoveries and incident response
“I literally just got the last update done when they released this update.”
- Dan
Cost
Money That Does Not Add Up
Bandwidth Overages Nobody Can Explain
WPEngine reports 3.6TB of usage. Your own analytics show 23GB. Self-hosted video files are being pulled 500,000+ times per month. Your homepage alone loads 23MB per visitor.
- ×12x over bandwidth allocation every month
- ×WPEngine support cannot explain their own numbers
- ×No visibility into what is consuming the bandwidth
“The number of hits on these things is completely out of whack with our actual level of site visitation.”
- Aaron
Months of Technical Debt to Untangle
A previous developer abandoned the child theme. Code is buried in the wrong places. The header had to be completely rebuilt just to remove one plugin dependency. 30+ plugins to maintain, 9 identified for removal.
- ×Orphaned themes stored in Dropbox
- ×Duplicate code maintained in 2 places
- ×Estimated months to safely remove 9 plugins
“With a proper rebuild we won't need to update this stuff in 2 places lol”
- Jon
For a company that handles defense and space intelligence data, WordPress is not just inconvenient. It's a liability. The question isn't if something will happen. It's when.
Jon
Is waiting until 2027 for a non-WordPress site still the timeline? 😅
Dan
If the rest of 2026 looks like this week for WordPress, I am going to push to get that expedited!