Can my website get hacked if it has no login?

Yes. Most compromises are automated and target the software rather than an account: an outdated plugin, a vulnerable dependency, a misconfigured server, or credentials stolen elsewhere. Having no visitor login removes one route, not the category.

What is the difference between staging and production?

Production is the live site your customers use. Staging is a copy where changes are tested first. Every update, plugin change and deployment should pass through staging, because the alternative is testing on the people you are trying to sell to.

Can I update the website myself afterwards?

That depends on what was built and it should be agreed before, not discovered after. A CMS build gives you an editor for content changes; a static build usually means asking the developer. Neither is wrong — but being surprised by which one you bought is.

Security and hosting

Should I move my site off WordPress?

Only if it is causing a specific problem you can name. WordPress is the right answer for a site whose owner publishes frequently and needs a familiar editor. It becomes the wrong answer when the plugin stack has grown past what anyone maintains.

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Reasons to stay

You publish regularly and the editing experience matters daily
Multiple non-technical people update the site
Your integrations and workflows already exist as plugins
It performs adequately and updates are applied routinely

Reasons to leave

Twenty plugins where five would do, several unmaintained upstream
A page speed problem traced to the theme and plugin stack rather than to content
Repeated security incidents, or a plugin that cannot be updated because a customisation depends on its internals
The site is effectively static and the CMS overhead buys nothing

The honest comparison

A static build removes the database, the plugin ecosystem and the server-side runtime, which is why its maintenance cost is a fraction of a comparable CMS. It also removes the editor, which is a real loss for someone who publishes weekly. Neither answer is universally right.

The longer version

This answer is deliberately short. If you want the full treatment, Website maintenance: the routine that prevents silent failure covers it in about 4 minutes — free, ungated, written from client work.

Who answered this

Anas Bin Masud builds e-commerce sites and does technical SEO for businesses in the UK, Canada and Pakistan — fifteen live client sites, six of them stores taking real payments. These answers come from those projects rather than from a content brief. More about how I work, or ask me something directly.