The Blok by Blok Podcast

Episode 7 of The Blok by Blok Podcast explores one of the most accepted, and least questioned, ideas in the modern website industry: maintenance. Monthly retainers. Ongoing support plans. Continuous upkeep. For most organizations, recurring website maintenance has simply become “part of the deal.” But what exactly are organizations maintaining every single month? In this episode, Cainan Barnett br...

Modern websites were supposed to make life easier. Instead, many organizations find themselves buried beneath layers of plugins, integrations, dashboards, settings, widgets, automations, and features they rarely use. In Episode 6 of The Blok by Blok Podcast, Cainan Barnett explores how the internet became obsessed with adding more, more functionality, more tools, more options, while often making w...

Most organizations think they’re paying for a website. What they’re actually paying for is the ongoing cost of simply existing online. Hosting. Maintenance. Subscriptions. Forms. Scheduling tools. Email systems. Integrations. Security. Storage. Support retainers. One monthly charge doesn’t seem like much… until years go by and organizations realize they’ve built an entire layer of recurring operat...

Most people think they have a website. What they actually have is a system. Hosting. Platforms. Plugins. Forms. Analytics. Integrations. Payments. Scheduling. Updates. Different tools, different vendors, all stitched together just to keep one thing running. And when something breaks, you don’t fix the website… you start chasing the problem. That’s the vendor trap. It’s not just expensive. It’s fra...

Most people have a website. Very few people actually use it. In Episode 2, we break down why websites often become something you avoid instead of something you rely on. Confusing systems. Risky updates. Too much friction. Over time, they sit untouched, outdated, and disconnected from what you actually do. If your website feels like work, it is not doing its job.

A website is built once. So why does it cost forever? In Episode 3, we break down one of the biggest disconnects in the industry, how a one-time build turns into a lifetime expense. Imagine buying something once, and being charged every month just to keep using it. That is the model most websites operate on. This episode challenges that idea and introduces a different way to think about ownership,...

Why are you still paying for your website? In this episode, we break down the quiet, ongoing cost that most businesses and nonprofits have just accepted monthly fees to keep something online that’s already been built. Hosting, maintenance, subscriptions… it adds up fast. But the real question is: does it actually make sense? This is where Blok by Blok starts, by challenging the idea that your webs...