For Greater Boston businesses with a WordPress site and nobody looking after it
Your website shouldn't need a babysitter.
Same site your customers know. Nothing inside it left to break. $59 a month, and a named person who answers by the next business day.
Get a free plain-English report on your websiteWritten by Dan, by hand, about your site. If you're fine where you are, the report will say so.
Where this usually starts
The person who built your site stopped answering. People get busy, change jobs, leave the business. It happens. But now the emails go nowhere, you're not sure who has the logins, and the site is still up there with last year's hours on it.
Meanwhile the plan keeps coming out of the account. Hosting, or maintenance, or both, and you can't see what the money buys. On review sites, owners describe it the same way again and again: paying every month "for what, nothing."
And you're afraid to touch it, because if it breaks there's nobody to call. One owner, asking strangers on a forum for help, wrote: "I am not sure where to look or where to start."
None of this is on you. You hired a professional, which was the right call. What you were left with is the problem: a website that needs constant looking-after, and nobody looking after it.
Why a website needs a babysitter in the first place
A WordPress site is not just pages. It is software: the main program, a theme, and usually a long list of plugins, each written by a different company. All of it has to be updated forever, and all of it sits behind a login page that strangers can try.
That is what a maintenance plan is for. Someone has to keep patching it, or one day it breaks, or someone breaks in.
Your site today
- The pages your customers see
- A theme, updated by one company
- Plugins, each updated by another
- The main program, updated by WordPress
- A login page anyone can find
Your site, rebuilt
- The same pages your customers see
- Nothing underneath to update
- No login page to find
- A full copy of the old site, kept safe
We go a different way. First we take a full copy of your WordPress site and keep it safe. Then we rebuild the same pages on our own clean foundation, with nothing running inside them. No plugins to update. No login page for anyone to find. Nothing to patch, nothing to hack, and nothing to pay a specialist to babysit.
To your customers it's the same website. Same content, same look, same structure, and you approve a preview before anything goes live. Every page keeps its exact web address, so Google keeps finding what it already found. What changes is on the inside, where there is no longer anything to update, patch or look after.
That's also why the plan costs less. With nothing to maintain, there's no maintenance work to bill you for. The $59 pays for hosting, a full copy kept safe, and a person with time to answer.
One plan instead of a hosting bill, a maintenance plan and the guy
Tuesday. Your hours change for the holiday weekend. You email Dan one line. By Thursday the site shows the new hours, and you haven't thought about your website since.
That's the whole experience we're after. Here is what the monthly plan covers:
- Hosting, in our account, with your domain name staying in yours
- A full copy of your site kept safe at all times, plus the archived copy of your old WordPress site
- Contact forms that land in your inbox
- Three changes a month: new hours, a menu price, a photo, a new team member. You email the change, we make it, and it's usually live within two business days
- A named person who answers by the next business day
- Month to month. Cancel by email
What it costs
$59 a month Month to month.
Conversion, once: from $1,500 (up to 10 pages) or from $2,500 (up to 30 pages). It covers the rebuild; the monthly plan is where we earn the relationship. The fee can be split over your first three months.
If you'd rather not wait
Priority start, from $2,000. We begin within three business days of your go-ahead. Same rebuild, same preview sign-off, same $59 a month after.
For owners whose host has told them their site runs an old version of PHP and who would rather move than find out what breaks.
What we don't do
We don't do online stores, logins, member or patient portals, or built-in booking. We don't build those, on purpose. That's how it stays at $59 a month and a person still answers.
Links out to a booking or ordering service you already use are fine. If your site needs more than that, the report will say so and point you to someone who builds it.
If you ever leave
Cancel any time, by email. You get your whole site, plus the archived copy of your old WordPress site, and your domain name stays in your own name the whole time. Nobody is held hostage. Not by us either.
Who you'd be dealing with
Anvil is new and small. It's run by Dan Scott in Boston, and when you email, Dan is who answers. You won't find a wall of client logos here, because we'd rather show you how we work than borrow somebody's.
The way to check us is the free report. You send your web address. Dan opens your site, by hand, and writes back with what he finds, in plain English. The first report covers:
- who owns your domain name, where it's registered, and when it comes up for renewal
- where the site is hosted, and whether we can tell who holds the account
- which version of WordPress it's running, and roughly when it was last updated
- which version of PHP it runs, and whether that version still gets security fixes
- which plugins are installed, and whether any of them has a known security hole on public record
- whether the site works properly on a phone
- whether the hours, phone number and address on the site match what Google shows
- one paragraph at the end on what we'd do with it and what it would cost. Or, if it's in good shape and your current person answers, a note saying stay put.
Reports are written one at a time, so we take on a handful each week. If there's a wait, the reply says how long.
The reasonable worries, answered
"Changing my website will hurt my Google ranking."
Every page keeps its exact web address, its title and its content. We don't redesign, rename or reorganize anything. Google sees the same pages it already knows, served cleaner. We won't promise you a ranking gain, because we haven't measured one. We can promise not to move anything Google already found.
"It'll come out looking like a generic site, same as everyone else's."
Your colors, your logo, your photos, your menu, your page order. We rebuild what's there rather than designing something new, and you see the preview next to your current site before you approve it. It won't match to the pixel; spacing gets tidied and it will behave better on a phone. It will read as your site.
"$59 is less than I pay now. There has to be a catch."
The catch is scope. We don't do stores, logins, portals or booking systems, and that limit is what keeps every site simple enough to look after for $59. The other half is the rebuild itself: with nothing inside the site to update, there's no maintenance work to charge for.
For comparison, as listed on their own sites on October 13, 2026: WP Buffs' entry plan is $89 a month, and WP SitePlan's $59 plan says "No reactive edits or Help Desk Support." Neither includes hosting. The price on this page is the price. There's no upsell waiting behind it.
"Last time I got locked into a contract."
Month to month, from the first month. Cancel by email. You leave with the whole site and the archived copy of your old one, and your domain name was never in our name to begin with.
"I never got the logins, and I'm not sure who holds the domain."
That's common, and it's not a dealbreaker. We can usually rebuild from the live site itself, no logins needed. The free report tells you who the domain is registered to and where the site is hosted. If the domain turns out to be in someone else's name, we'll tell you exactly what we see and what the next step is.
We can't promise to get it back for you; that depends on who holds it. We can promise you'll know where you stand.
"You're new. Nothing stops you disappearing too."
True, which is why the exit terms work from day one rather than as a favor at the end. Your domain stays in your name. We keep a full copy of your site that you can ask for at any time. And the rebuilt site is plain pages that any web person could host.
If Anvil vanished tomorrow, you'd have everything you need to carry on without us.
"My site needs an online store, a patient portal or a booking system."
Then we're not the right fit, and the report will say so. We'll point you to someone who builds that. A link out to a booking or ordering service you already use is fine; it's the built-in kind we don't do.
About the PHP security alert
On October 20, two serious flaws were made public in PHP, the software underneath nearly every WordPress site. PHP is releasing fixes for them on October 21, but only for the versions it still supports, which today means 8.2 and newer. If your host keeps your site on a current version, they apply the fix and you don't have to do anything.
The sites this affects are the ones on an older version of PHP, which is common for sites nobody has looked after in a while. Those can't be patched. They have to be upgraded, and upgrading an old site often breaks the theme or a plugin that was written for the old version.
What you can do today: email your host and ask which version of PHP your site runs, and whether the October 21 fix has been applied. If the answer is a version older than 8.2, or no answer, you have a decision to make. Nobody needs to make it in a panic.
Or send us the address and we'll check for you. A site's PHP version is often visible from the outside, and it takes a minute. The free report now includes it. Read the plain-English explainer, or ask for the free check.
Get a free plain-English report on your website
Your web address and an email. That's all the form asks. Dan looks at the site by hand and writes back with what's there and what he'd do about it.
Got it.
Dan will open your site by hand and send the report to your email. Reports are written one at a time, usually within a few business days. If there's a wait, you'll get a short note saying how long.
What happens next:
- Dan looks at the site: who holds the domain, where it's hosted, what it's running, how it behaves on a phone.
- You get a one-page email in plain English, with one paragraph at the end on what we'd do and what it would cost.
- Reply if you want to talk it through. If you'd rather leave it there, that's fine.
Anything urgent in the meantime: dan@anvilsites.io
Or skip the form and email Dan directly: dan@anvilsites.io