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Seattle, Washington, March 31, 2020. For immediate release.

Seems like every day this month I've answered the same question: Why should I use Drupal instead of WordPress? And this is the answer I've come up with. They are entirely different applications, about as different as Microsoft Word is from Microsoft Excel.

If you’re making improvements to your sites, even as simple as pushing updates, you’re going to be changing things around. Inevitably, you’ll break something. Wouldn’t you like to find that out before the production site goes down from the “improvements”?

In short, choosing a particular technology allows us to:

• Make a decision once and leverage the results over and over

• Increase profitability

• Increase developer satisfaction

When you build a new website, going live is relatively easy. You get ahold of a domain name, point it at a webhost, put the website code there, and you're up and running!

After a site is live, it gets a lot more complicated.

Glitzy websites are all the rage these days. Everybody seems to be looking for easy ways to create multimedia-rich pages with ease.

Just ran across a sad story where Digital Ocean is accused of killing a startup:

New versions of Drupal core dropped today, to fix a file handling issue.

After assessing the patches, statements, and risks associated with this update, we have decided this is an important update to apply, but not urgent for most of the sites we manage.

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At Freelock, we’re in the business of building websites that make your business better.