Modern tools, battle-tested in production. Every HD CMS site is built on the same stack — chosen for performance, security, and simplicity.
I spent 15 years building on WordPress, Magento, and PHP. I know those stacks inside out. And I chose to leave them behind.
HD CMS is built on a modern, purpose-selected stack. Not because it's trendy — because it produces measurably better results. Faster sites. Lower costs. Less maintenance. Better security. Every technology choice has a reason.
Vue.js framework for both the CMS admin and every frontend site. Server-side rendering, static generation, and edge deployment built in.
Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL database with real-time subscriptions, row-level security, file storage, and authentication. Open-source, no vendor lock-in.
Every page is pre-built HTML served from the nearest global edge node. Sub-100ms time to first byte, anywhere in the world.
Payments, deposits, subscriptions, and checkout — all via Stripe. PCI compliant out of the box. No payment gateway extensions.
Transactional email delivery for booking confirmations, enquiry auto-replies, and reminders. Custom domains, branded templates.
Full-stack TypeScript from database queries to frontend components. Type safety catches bugs before they reach production.
No PHP. WordPress and Magento render every page from PHP + MySQL on every request. HD CMS pre-builds pages at deploy time. The result: static HTML on a CDN instead of server-processed pages on shared hosting. That's the difference between PageSpeed 40 and PageSpeed 95+.
No shared hosting. Every HD CMS site runs on Vercel's edge network — the same infrastructure used by some of the largest sites on the internet. Your site isn't sharing a server with hundreds of others. It's replicated across the globe.
No plugins. WordPress needs 15-30 plugins for a typical business site. Every plugin is a dependency, a security risk, and something that can break. HD CMS has everything built in — forms, email, image optimisation, SEO, bookings, payments.
No attack surface. There's no login page on the public site. No database exposed to the internet. No admin panel to brute force. The CMS and the website are completely separate — the website is just HTML files on a CDN.
This isn't theory. Every HD CMS site in production scores 90+ on Google Lighthouse across Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO.
Bows Hair went from PageSpeed 20 (Squarespace) to 95+ (HD CMS). Online bookings increased 80%. The site loads in under a second on mobile.
That's not magic — it's architecture. When you remove the bloat, the results follow.
Book a free 15-minute website surgery. I'll run your current site through Lighthouse and show you what modern architecture could do for your business.