The Declaration of Website Independence

250 years ago this weekend, a group of small business owners fired their management company. Farmers, printers, brewers, a few lawyers.

Read the actual document sometime. The complaints sound familiar. Requests ignored. Fees invented out of thin air. Decisions made an ocean away by people who never answered letters. So they wrote the most famous breakup email in history and signed it in ink.

If you've ever worked with the wrong web company, you already understand the Founders better than most historians do.

The Grievances, Updated for 2026

A long train of abuses, submitted to a candid world:

He has refused his Assent to our Edits, wholesome and necessary, though we requested them in March.

He has called together Meetings at places unusual and distant, for the sole purpose of fatiguing us into Compliance.

He has erected a Multitude of New Fees, and sent hither Swarms of Invoices to eat out our Substance.

He has kept among us, in times of Peace, Standing Plugins, without the Consent of anyone: forty-three of them, seven abandoned since 2021.

He has plundered our Load Times, ravaged our Rankings, and burnt our Contact Forms.

He has held our Domain hostage, refusing to say what account it even lives in.

In every stage of these Oppressions, We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms. Our repeated Emails have been answered only by repeated Silence.

Sound like anyone you're currently paying?

What Independence Actually Looks Like

We hold these truths to be self-evident:

• A text change shouldn't take three weeks or cost $150.
• You should know what you're paying for, in plain English, before the invoice shows up.
• You should get a straight answer about where your domain and website live. No mystery, no hostage negotiations.
• If you ever want to leave, everything that's yours goes with you. A good management company doesn't need a ransom to keep your business.
• When you email the person who runs your website, you should get an answer. That's not a premium feature. That's the whole job.

If any of those made you wince, you don't have a website partner. You have a king.

Independence Doesn't Mean Doing It Alone

The Founders didn't fire the king so they could do everything themselves. They built something better and chose who they worked with.

That's the move. You don't need to learn hosting, DNS, and page speed. You need someone accountable who treats your website like it's yours. Because it is.

CAN Web Management runs websites for small businesses that are done being ignored. You won't have to book a call or sit through a pitch. Just email us what's going on with your site and you'll get a straight answer back, usually the same day. Or start with a free website review and we'll tell you exactly where you stand.