Umbraco Alternative: Serverless Scalability
Forget managing Windows servers. Decipher is built on Google Firebase for serverless scalability. Get full ownership without the IT headache.
Everything Umbraco does —
plus everything it doesn't.
Forget managing Windows servers.
Built on Google’s Firebase
Serverless
Content Creation
AI Image & Visual Creation
Real-time SEO Scoring
Why teams outgrow Umbraco
Umbraco is the 'Friendly CMS', but self-hosting it requires a not-so-friendly stack of Windows Servers, IIS, and SQL Server. This infrastructure is heavy, expensive to license, and requires specialized .NET DevOps skills to maintain.
Scaling Umbraco for high traffic is a manual process involving load balancers and database clustering. For marketing teams, this means budget is spent on servers, not content.
A content production engine — not just a database.
Decipher CMS removes the infrastructure headache by being 'Built on Google’s Firebase'. It is 'Serverless' by default.
There are no servers to patch, no IIS to configure, and no SQL databases to optimize. It scales from zero to millions of requests automatically.
Decipher focuses resources on 'Content Creation' with tools like 'AI Image & Visual Creation' and 'Real-time SEO Scoring', rather than backend plumbing.
Scale effortlessly with Google-backed infrastructure. Try Decipher today.
Enterprise-grade architecture —
without the enterprise complexity.
Decipher offers 'Private Infrastructure' deployment on Google Cloud, which is often more cost-effective and performant than Azure-based Umbraco hosting. The 'Direct cloud billing' model ensures transparency.
You pay for what you use, and because Firebase is efficient, the costs are typically very low ($200-$2000/mo for enterprise) compared to provisioned VMs.
Pricing that doesn't punish growth.
Transparent plans that scale with your content — not against you.
Individual
For creators & growing teams
- AI-powered content generation
- Built-in SEO optimization
- Unlimited content pages
- Custom domain & branding
- Priority support
Enterprise
For large teams & organizations
- Everything in Individual
- Dedicated account manager
- SSO & advanced security (IAP)
- Custom integrations & API
- SLA & premium support
- Data residency options
Total Cost of Ownership
Umbraco Cloud has monthly fees, but the real cost is the developer time. Decipher’s $19.99/mo plan is a fully managed SaaS that includes the AI tools.
You get the flexibility of an open platform with the convenience of a SaaS, all for a fraction of the cost of a custom Umbraco build.
Build a better CMS experience —
without starting from scratch.
Forget managing Windows servers.