How we build — and why it’s different
Most small-business sites live on Netlify or Vercel and run from about 30 regions. Yours runs on Cloudflare’s edge in 300+ cities. Here is what that buys you, in plain English.
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 with a public status page
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. The public status page (status.designedbyanthony.com) shows 90 days of uptime history — you can verify the claim before you commit.
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) | Varies with shared hosting and theme weight | Tunable per build; we publish the PageSpeed score for every live site on the portfolio page |
| 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: 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.
Live status, 90 days of uptime history. Powered by Better Stack.
What happens after the design preview lands in your inbox
No mystery, no chasing. The preview link does the work — you either Approve, Suggest, or do nothing. Each path is clearly defined.
One click on the green Approve button and your site goes live the same day — before the first invoice clears, before any waiting period. We treat the Approve click as your commitment, not the payment.
Pin a comment anywhere on the live preview — no exporting screenshots, no email back-and-forth. Each pin becomes a tracked item in our queue. We turn revisions around in 24–48 hours and re-send the same preview link.
Fully refundable until the moment you Approve. The preview stays live for your team to review at their pace. If you decide it's not the right fit before Approve, there's no invoice and no awkward conversation.
Once you Approve, the auto-go-live promise kicks in: your domain points at the live site within the hour, and you get a 60-day free trial of VertaFlow CRM so every lead that arrives from day one lands in a real inbox — not a black hole.
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.
Want the deep technical version?
Send me your current site and a one-paragraph note about what is slow, broken, or embarrassing. I will reply within one business day with a written assessment — no sales deck, no contract pressure.