Tampa Forge
The developer disappeared
Emails bounce, calls go to voicemail, invoices stopped — and so did the updates. The site still runs, but no one alive-and-answering knows how, or holds the keys.
Salvage operations · Ship found adrift
Inherited a website nobody can explain?
The developer stopped answering. The agency shut its doors. The one employee who "handled the website" left with the passwords in their head. Now you own a site you can't log into, built on tools you've never heard of, and you're one expired credit card away from it vanishing. This is one of the most common rescues we run — and it's very fixable. Tell us what you know, even if it's almost nothing, and we reply within one business day.
Ships We Board
Four ways a website ends up orphaned
However it happened, the situation underneath is the same: a working business depends on a site nobody currently controls or understands. Here's what usually washes into our harbor.
The agency shut down
The company that built and hosted your site folded, got acquired, or "sunset" your plan. You may have weeks before hosting lapses and the site goes down with the ship.
The employee who ran it left
The site lived in one person's personal accounts — their email on the domain, their card on the hosting. They've moved on, and every renewal notice is going somewhere you can't see.
Someone's holding it hostage
A previous provider won't hand over the domain, the files, or the admin login without a fight or a fee. We help you establish what you rightfully own and get it back under your flag.
The Takeover, Step by Step
From mystery ship to documented vessel
Our promise on every takeover is the first article of our code: no hostage websites. Domain, hosting, code, and every account end up registered in your name, with credentials in your hands — including our own access, which you can revoke any day you like.
Recover & inventory the accounts We track down where the domain is registered, where the site is hosted, and every service it quietly depends on — then work the recovery processes to get access legitimately restored and transferred to accounts you own.
Document how it actually works Platform, plugins, integrations, deploy process, renewal dates, and who to call for what — written down in plain English, so the site's knowledge never again lives in one person's head.
Assess its health honestly Updates, backups, security, speed. We tell you what's solid, what's worn, and what's genuinely urgent versus what can wait — with plain-language priorities, not a scare-quote for everything at once.
Take over the care If you want us aboard afterward, we handle updates, backups, monitoring, and fixes on a steady monthly rhythm — and everything we touch stays yours.
Adrift with someone else's website?
Tell us what you've got — even if it's just a domain name and a shrug. We'll tell you what we can recover, what the takeover looks like, and a fixed price for getting it all under your control.
Request a free consultationNo ransom required. First conversation is free.