Neweb vs WordPress.

WordPress software is free. Running it is not. A basic setup requires: shared hosting at ₹100 to ₹400 per month, a domain at ₹800 to ₹1,200 per year, a premium theme at ₹3,000 to ₹8,000 (one-time or annual), an SEO plugin like Yoast Premium at ₹7,500 per year, a multilingual plugin like WPML at ₹3,500 per year, a security plugin at ₹2,000 per year, and backup storage. Before you've built a single page, the annual cost exceeds ₹25,000 for a properly set-up WordPress site.

WordPress.com (the hosted version) is cheaper to start — plans begin at about ₹300 per month — but features are restricted until you reach the Business plan at approximately ₹1,200 per month, which allows plugins. Even then, hosting quality, performance, and the managed workflow are inferior to Neweb. Neweb at ₹249 per month includes everything needed for a complete, fast, SEO-optimised Indian business website with no plugin shopping required.

Neweb automates Google Business Profile setup and weekly syncing — something WordPress cannot do without custom development or a paid service. Neweb runs weekly SEO tunes automatically; WordPress requires a plugin and someone to act on its recommendations. Neweb publishes in 14 Indian languages with correct hreflang markup out of the box; WordPress needs WPML or Polylang, which add cost and complexity.

Neweb ships with UPI QR codes, WhatsApp enquiry buttons, and GST invoice generation built-in. WordPress needs custom plugins or development for each of these. Neweb's LiteSpeed hosting and edge CDN deliver Core Web Vitals of 90+ on every site without any optimisation work; WordPress sites routinely score in the 50s to 70s without careful optimisation. And Neweb's IST-hours support team is available in minutes, not the hours or days that come with hosting provider support or WordPress forums.

WordPress powers 43% of the web, which makes it the most targeted CMS by hackers. Outdated plugins, weak passwords, or unpatched themes are the most common attack vectors. Indian WordPress sites are routinely compromised and used for spam, phishing, or crypto mining — often without the business owner knowing for weeks. Cleaning up a hacked WordPress site costs between ₹5,000 and ₹25,000 with a developer, and the reputational damage from being blacklisted by Google can take months to reverse.

Neweb is a managed platform. Security is handled at the infrastructure level — automatic updates, WAF rules, brute force protection, and malware scanning are all included. There is no exposed wp-admin endpoint, no plugin vulnerabilities, and no user-managed update schedule. For an Indian small business owner who does not want to think about security, Neweb's managed model is meaningfully safer than self-hosted WordPress.