Static website
A static site is built in advance instead of assembled per visitor. That makes it faster, safer and cheaper to host.
Read more →What is hosting?
Hosting is where your site lives. What separates the types, and why it has to be in your name.
What it is
Hosting is the computer your website sits on and which hands it over when somebody types your address. Your domain name points at that computer; without hosting a domain name is an address with no building.
There are roughly three kinds. Shared hosting: your site sits with hundreds of others on one server, cheap. VPS or dedicated: you have your own capacity. And platform hosting for static sites, where there is no server for you to maintain, only files being served.
Why it might matter to you
- The account belongs in your company name, not your builder’s. That is the difference between changing supplier and starting over.
- Hosting partly determines your load time, and load time counts in Google — it is the cheapest speed gain available.
- Check what is included: backups, an SSL certificate, and whether anybody answers when something breaks. The cheapest plan often has none of the three.
- Ask whether a backup has ever been restored. A backup never tested is an assumption.
How we handle it
This site runs as a static site on a platform that only serves files. There is no database and no admin area online, which means there is nothing running to attack and the hosting costs a fraction of what a server with a database costs.
Related terms
SSL certificate
The padlock in the address bar. What it proves, what it does not, and why you need not pay for one.
Read more →Core Web Vitals
The three numbers Google uses to measure how your site feels: loading, responsiveness, and whether the page stays still while it loads.
Read more →Not sure which way to go?
Send a short brief with what you have now and what needs to be better. You get an honest answer, including if that answer is that you do not need us for it.