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How to get a site live.
Four steps, and not one of them touches a server.
Design the site on the canvas.
Publish to your siter.io address.
Open it on a real phone.
Connect your own domain.
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What managed hosting actually removes
Publishing puts the site on a siter.io address that the app assigns. Take the exact address from the app rather than guessing at its shape — that screen is the authoritative source and this page is not. From that moment the jobs a host normally hands you are simply absent. Nothing to log into over SSH, no runtime version to keep current, no build to run and no certificate expiry in your calendar. Republishing is how a change reaches the public address, so treat publish as the deploy.
Open the published address on a real phone before you connect a domain to it. The canvas is a design surface rather than a browser, and the thing worth catching early is a layout that only holds together at the width you drew it at.
Three things people expect from a host are not documented anywhere public: redirects, a custom 404 page, and any way to put a password on a published address. If you are replacing an old site that has real URLs behind it, if you need a specific page shown when someone mistypes an address, or if the site is meant to stay behind a lock until launch day, ask before you migrate rather than after the old site is gone.
The Made with Siter badge is removable on paid plans. If you want it gone, turn it off before the link goes out, not once people have already seen the page.
Website hosting you do not have to buy separately
When you publish, Siter.io serves the site under the plan you are already paying for. No host to choose, no FTP client, no certificate to renew, and nothing to configure before the first page is live.
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The short answer.
Hosting is part of the plan and an SSL certificate is listed as included on every plan, so serving the site is not a second purchase and not an add-on. The row that decides whether any of it reaches a visitor is publishing, and the answer there is blunt. No - the free plan builds and previews privately; publishing needs a paid plan, from $7/mo billed yearly.
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Nothing to buy on the side
One subscription covers the editor, the serving and the certificate. There is no hosting invoice arriving from somewhere else and no control panel to log into. What the plans differ on is how many websites and pages each one includes, and an extra website is added to the subscription rather than billed by a host. The domain name is the only piece people normally still buy elsewhere.
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Managed means constrained
The flip side of not running the server is not being able to put anything on it. There is no CMS, and the code you are allowed to add has a defined shape rather than free rein, so the pages you publish are the pages you designed. That is a real limit and it is better read now than discovered later.
Which plans include it.
Hosting and SSL are ticked on every row, free plan included. What separates the rows underneath is whether the site can be put in front of anyone at all.
| Feature | Start (free) | Solo $7 | Plus $12 | Pro $24 |
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| Hosting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SSL Certificate | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Publish Live | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free Subdomain | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Read off the “View all features and options” table on siter.io/pricing on 2026-09-03.
Four things worth knowing.
The first is what you stop doing. The other three are limits, and the limits are what decide whether this is the right kind of host for the site you have in mind.
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No server to look after
There is no operating system to patch, no PHP version to choose, no FTP client and no control panel. Publishing is a button in the app. That is the point of a managed host, and it is also the reason you cannot install anything on it.
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The subdomain is a real address
Anything you publish is public, the siter.io address included. It is a live URL that anyone holding the link can open, not a private preview. Treat it as a staging address you would be content for a stranger to find.
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HTTPS on your own domain is unconfirmed
SSL is listed as included on every plan. Whether a certificate is issued automatically once you point a domain you own at the site is documented nowhere, so load the https address yourself and confirm it before you hand the link out.
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Custom code has a shape
You get site-wide head code on paid plans and an embed element you place on the canvas. There are no per-page body scripts, so a tag that insists on sitting at the end of the body is the one that will not fit.
Frequently asked.
Do I need to buy web hosting separately?
No. Hosting sits in the plan matrix next to SSL and both rows read the same way — yes, included on every plan. The subscription covers serving the site and the certificate as well as the editor you designed it in, and there is no separate hosting invoice and no control panel. The only piece most people still buy elsewhere is the domain name, which stays registered in your own account. What the plans do charge extra for is listed on the pricing table — additional websites, additional editors — rather than arriving as a hosting bill of its own.
Is an SSL certificate included?
SSL is listed as included on every plan, in the same table as hosting rather than as an upgrade. You do not request one, install one or renew one. The case worth checking with your own eyes is a domain you brought yourself, because what happens there is not written down.
Does my own domain get HTTPS automatically?
That is not documented, so it is not something to promise. SSL is advertised across the plans, but whether a certificate is issued automatically once you point a domain you own at the site appears nowhere. Load the https version of the address after the domain resolves and confirm the padlock before the link goes on anything printed. Connecting a custom domain covers the rest of that job.
How much does website hosting cost?
It is not priced on its own. Hosting sits inside whichever plan you are on, and the cheapest plan that can put a site on a public URL is $7/mo billed yearly ($8 monthly). Whether the free plan will do instead is the usual follow-up, and the answer is fixed. No - the free plan builds and previews privately; publishing needs a paid plan. It is somewhere to build and preview rather than somewhere to serve visitors from.
Can I host my Siter.io site somewhere else?
Partly. HTML download on Pro only; the contents of the export are not documented. So a page can be lifted onto a host of your own from the Pro plan at $24/mo billed yearly, and not below it. Because nobody publishes what the download contains, take one page, open it on the host you have in mind, and see what survives before planning a migration around it.
Can I run a blog or a CMS on it?
No. There is no CMS behind the pages, so a blog would be pages you design and publish one at a time rather than posts written into a collection. Every post is a layout job and every correction is a republish, which is fine for a handful of pieces a year and miserable at one a week. If publishing regularly is the site’s whole reason for existing, that is the honest reason to host it somewhere else.
Can I add my own scripts to the site?
Within limits. Site-wide head code on paid plans, plus an on-canvas embed element; no per-page body scripts. Analytics, a chat widget or a verification tag that is happy in the head will fit, and it goes in once for the whole site rather than page by page. A snippet that belongs on one page only has to go in the embed element you place on that page’s canvas instead. The one that does not fit anywhere is the tag that insists on sitting at the end of the body, so read what the snippet actually requires before you build a plan around pasting it in.
Does managed hosting make my site faster?
It removes several ways to make a site slow by accident, which is not the same claim. There is no server for you to misconfigure and no plugin stack to accumulate over two years. What is left is the page itself, and one hero image exported at full size outweighs anything a host does. No number is published here, because there is no measurement to show you behind it.
More of what the editor does
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Custom domains
Point a domain you own at the site, included in every paid plan at no extra cost.
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HTML download
Take a copy of a page and host it elsewhere. On Pro, and honest about the limits.
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Forms
Design a form on the canvas and get the answers in your inbox.
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Custom fonts
Upload the font files the design was made with, on every plan including free.
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Responsive design
Three fixed breakpoints, laid out by you rather than guessed by the tool.
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SEO settings
Per-page title, description and slug, plus custom meta tags in the head.
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Teams and roles
Editor and viewer roles on every plan, with seats included rather than billed per head.
Also useful: Siter.io pricing in full and the Figma to HTML plugin.
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Publish it and stop thinking about the server.
Design the site on the canvas, press publish, and the serving and the certificate come with the plan you are already on. The free plan builds and previews privately; publishing starts at $7/mo billed yearly.
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