Most traffic to your site
isn't human.
The plugin tax
Every plugin is a subscription, a security surface, and a database artefact that stays behind when you uninstall it.
The stack grows - The problem compounds.
The bot problem
Most traffic on a modern small-business site is automated - (AI crawlers, scrapers, vulnerability probes).
Page-builders serve it all the same, on the same shared CPU budget.
The throttling wall
When the bots push past the host's threshold, the host pushes back.
Throttle notices, upsell emails, or a slower site for the humans who actually showed up.
I migrate small businesses off WordPress, Wix, and Squarespace onto headless architecture — bot-filtered, edge-cached, secured on retainer.
jamesdennis
Webmaster · Migration · Security
Why headless - not another WordPress host
WordPress, Wix, and Squarespace share the same architectural limits. They compound over time.
No stack to maintain
No plugins to licence, patch, or clean up after. The build is the site — Next.js, Payload, Neon, on your own Vercel and Cloudflare. You pay for hosting, not for a plugin ecosystem that keeps growing.
Bots filtered at the edge
Cloudflare rules and ScrapeShield sit in front of the origin, not inside it. Scrapers, AI crawlers, and vulnerability probes are classified and blocked before they reach a single page build or database query. The humans get the CPU.
Hosting cost reduced
Static pages and edge caching mean the origin does almost no work under bot load. On KetoBible, 95% bot traffic went from a host-throttling crisis to a ~domain-cost monthly bill — no upsell, no throttle notices.
The comparison below is what the migration actually changes — not the line item on your hosting bill.
You don't have to take my word for it. Here's what it looked like on a real site.
Real-world example
KetoBible.net
from bot-target to bulletproof
Site analytics showed thousands of monthly visits. AdSense showed near-zero clicks. The gap was bots — automated traffic that inflated the visit numbers while eating the server resources meant for real readers. On shared hosting, that overload translated into throttling, which then degraded the experience for the humans who did show up.
Migrated to a headless stack — Next.js on Vercel, behind Cloudflare, with Payload CMS and a Postgres database for the content. Bot traffic is now filtered at the edge before it reaches the application. Hosting dropped to roughly the cost of the domain. Throttle notices stopped. Core Web Vitals came out at 100. Same content, same admin workflow, none of the plugin maintenance.
Services
End-to-end web development solutions tailored to your needs
Off the page-builders... Onto something that holds.
Four problems I solve, and ther fix...
Stop Bot Traffic
Most small-business sites now serve more bots than people. The page-builder stack can't tell the difference.
If your analytics show thousands of sessions and almost no conversions, you're not alone — and it's probably not your marketing. On the average small-to-medium site, the majority of traffic is automated: scrapers, AI crawlers, vulnerability probes, and botnets looking for a way in. WordPress, Wix, and Squarespace were not built to distinguish them from real visitors.
I migrate your site onto a headless stack — Next.js on Vercel, behind Cloudflare — where bot traffic is filtered at the edge before it ever reaches your application. KetoBible.net was 95% bot traffic with near-zero ad revenue and a host threatening to throttle it. After migration: problem gone, hosting cost down to roughly the price of the domain, and the site faster than it had ever been.
Key Features:
- ✓Edge-level bot filtering
- ✓No plugin attack surface
- ✓Static-first page delivery
- ✓Real visitor analytics
- ✓Cloudflare WAF included
- ✓Hosting ~domain cost
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