What you actually get
Plain-English version of what we ship on every site.
One codebase, one runtime
Most agencies stitch together a CMS, a hosting provider, an analytics tool, and a forms vendor. We built a single application that runs on Cloudflare. One bill, one outage page, one phone call when something goes wrong.
Edge, not origin
A typical site on Netlify or Vercel runs from about 30 regions. Yours runs on Cloudflare’s network of 300+ cities. For a customer in Watertown searching for an HVAC contractor on a 4G phone, that is the difference between a request flying to Virginia and back versus serving from Buffalo.
Server-rendered, instantly interactive
TanStack Start on the edge means Google crawls fully rendered HTML and your visitors get instant page transitions after the first load. You get the SEO of a static site and the feel of an app, without picking a tradeoff.
Real infrastructure, audited weekly
Cloudflare D1 for your database, R2 for files, Workers for code. Every deploy is gated by automated tests, security scans, and a production smoke check. There is a public status page you can bookmark. There is a runbook for what we do when something breaks. We are not winging this.
Us vs. the typical local web shop
No names. You can connect the dots.
| Dimension | Typical local web shop | ANTHONY. |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting platform | Netlify or Vercel — ~30 regions | Cloudflare — 300+ cities |
| Database | WordPress + MySQL (US-east) or none | Cloudflare D1 — replicated to the edge |
| Time to first paint (4G) | 2.5s+ typical for WordPress hosts | Under 1.5s, measured live in PageSpeed |
| Status page | None | status.designedbyanthony.com — 90 days of history |
| Pricing | “Request a quote” | Public on /pricing — $0 Flex Lease or $999 Fast Track |
| Deploy process | FTP or “whenever the dev gets around to it” | Automated pipeline. Every change runs lint, typecheck, tests, e2e, security scan, preview deploy, prod smoke |
Real infrastructure runs on real status pages
Bookmark it. If we are ever down, you will know before we do.
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When we are not the right fit
Three cases where we will tell you to hire someone else.
You want a Shopify storefront
We will send you to Shopify. They are the right answer for product-catalog commerce and we are not pretending otherwise.
You need 50+ team members editing content daily
We are great for one to five editors. Past that, a dedicated CMS like Sanity (which we can wire in) is the right call.
You need a mobile app
We build websites, not iOS or Android apps. We will point you at someone good.