Just buy expensive hosting, and your site will be fast." WRONG. I've seen websites on $200/month ...

Just buy expensive hosting, and your site will be fast." WRONG. I've seen websites on $200/month ...Just buy expensive hosting, and your site will be fast." WRONG. I've seen websites on $200/month ...

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Nayem khan Antor

• Jan 21

Just buy expensive hosting, and your site will be fast."

WRONG.

I've seen websites on $200/month hosting load in 8+ seconds.

And sites on $10/month hosting load in under 2 seconds.

Here's the truth nobody tells you:

Expensive hosting ≠ , Fast website

Optimized code = Fast website (on ANY hosting)

Real example:

The client was paying $150/month for "premium" hosting.

Site still scored 35/100 on PageSpeed.

What I did:

✓ Optimized images (saved 4.2 seconds)

✓ Minified CSS/JS (saved 1.8 seconds)

✓ Implemented lazy loading (saved 2.1 seconds)

✓ Moved to $15/month hosting

New score: 94/100

New load time: 1.9 seconds

Saved: $1,620/year

Stop wasting money. Start optimizing.

Want me to audit YOUR site? Comment "AUDIT" below

-Nayem

Peace Ukutegbe

pro

• Mar 17

Figma → Shopify custom website. Done in 24 hours. ✅

AI is raising expectations. Speed and quality now go together.

A strong landing page first draft should not take more than 24 hours.

Do you agree or disagree?

Abdulsamad Oseni

• Mar 17

I don't think AI solves time problem, but quality problem.

As long as you can produce high quality visuals, it doesn't matter how long, you'll still have a edge.

Jan Mráz

pro

• Mar 17

3 Framer plugins to design 10x faster, part 2 💙

1. TypeScale generates the typography system for your website with ease!

2. Back to Top is a library of buttons that appears when users scroll down and smoothly takes them back to the top of the page

3. Iconstack gives you 50,000+ free SVG icons from top libraries like Material, Tabler, Lucide, Phosphor, Bootstrap, and more.

Use code JAN for free Framer PRO for one month! 🔥 /FramerPartner/

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RodriDesign

pro

• Mar 18

Helping shape Strella's marketing experience before their $14M Series-A 🚀 Over the past years, we've been working closely with the team at Strella — an AI-powered Customer Research Platform helping teams get customer insights 10x faster. Our collaboration began when the product was still very early, before launching. The core challenge was translating a technically sophisticated product into a clear, credible narrative for modern product teams and enterprise buyers. Together, we focused on: — Designing a scalable Webflow marketing system. — Building CMS-driven architecture. Seeing the team close a $14M Series-A round is an incredible milestone, and we're proud to have supported their journey! If you're building a venture-backed product and need a marketing experience that scales with your company — happy to connect!

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