Web hosting

Web hosting is the service that keeps your website files and serves them to visitors. For a hand-built static site it is often free or a few dollars a month, because there is no database or server-side code to run — and like the domain, the hosting account should be registered in your name.

Reviewed October 6, 2026. Prices are quoted per project; nothing on this page is a published price list.

What hosting does

Hosting is the computer (server) that holds your files and answers every request: a visitor's browser asks for a page, the server sends it. Your domain points at the host, so the two work as a pair — the address and the building.

What a static site needs

Very little. Hand-written HTML, CSS and JavaScript need no database and no server-side processing, so they run fine on basic file hosting — frequently free, or a few dollars a month. The expensive tiers exist for databases, traffic spikes and platform software your static site does not have.

What it costs

For a static site: often free, or a few dollars a month. Compare that with what a pay-monthly builder bundles in — the platform licence, the hosting and often the "support" — for around $120 a month, about $4,300 over three years, with the site coming down if you stop paying.

What to check before you commit

The account is in your name, and you hold the login.
You can move the files to another host any time (a static site can).
Uptime and support are stated, not promised in adjectives.

Questions

Is free hosting any good?

For a hand-built static site, often yes: there is no database to strain and little beyond files to serve. Judge it on uptime, speed and whether the account is yours — a free tier in your own name beats a bundled "free" host locked inside a builder.

Can I change hosts later?

A static site moves trivially: copy the files to the new host, point the domain, done. That portability is one of the reasons we hand-build — a platform site, by contrast, can be hard or impossible to move, which is exactly what the monthly fee is renting.

Tell us what you need. Send a few rough lines and we will come back with a scope, a fixed price and a delivery date in writing.

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