Hacking is an economy. Custom code makes you unprofitable.

Why the same logic protects custom code

A hand-built site offers the scanner nothing to match: no CMS signature, no plugin paths, no version strings, no public source code to mine for bugs. The automated pipeline that hacks at scale simply has no entry in its database for your site. You are not a harder target so much as an invisible one to the machinery that does the actual damage.

Could a skilled human attacker still probe your custom site by hand? In principle, yes, which is why we also build with the boring disciplines: input validation, least privilege, encrypted secrets, security headers, and no execution paths where user content lives. But humans attack targets worth their week. Mass bots attack everyone, and mass bots are what took your site down last time.

The evidence in our own work

Every hacked site we recover tells the same story: a known vulnerability in widely deployed software, exploited automatically, weeks or months after the patch existed. The recovered sites that move to custom infrastructure exit that story entirely. The ones that stay on their platform enter a patching race that never ends, which is winnable, but only by never losing.

That is the honest choice we put in front of every recovery client: keep racing, with hardening and monitoring to race well, or step off the track with a custom rebuild. Both are legitimate. Only one is permanent.