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Landing page hosting, and the campaign names in front of it

Paid traffic makes two things expensive at once — a slow page, and a campaign domain you registered in a hurry and now have to keep renewing forever.

The short answer

Build campaign pages on infrastructure you control, whether WordPress with a builder or hand-written HTML, giving unlimited pages against a flat monthly figure with the load time entirely in your hands — and put them on subdomains of a name you already own rather than registering a fresh domain per campaign, because every separate name is a renewal, a certificate and a redirect you will maintain long after the campaign ends.

The dedicated platforms price in bands set by traffic, which means a campaign that works moves you up a band and increases the bill. That is a structure worth leaving as soon as the ad spend is large enough to matter, because it charges you most in the month you can least afford the distraction.

Below: subdomain against separate domain, redirects that survive the campaign, what makes a page genuinely fast, and the plan we would order.

By the Hosting & Domains team · Reviewed 18 August 2026

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Two bills grow with a successful campaign if you let them. The platform bill, banded by visitors, which is the one everybody notices. And the domain bill — the exact-match name bought for one promotion, renewed every year afterwards because nobody is sure whether anything still links to it.

The second is smaller and more irritating, because it never resolves. Five years on, an agency is still holding nine names for campaigns that ended, each with a redirect nobody has tested and a renewal nobody can justify cancelling.

Subdomain, or a domain of its own

A subdomain costs one record and nothing else. go.example.com, offer.example.com, or a path under the main site if the campaign is short. It inherits the certificate arrangement, it inherits whatever authority the parent domain has, and when the campaign ends you delete a record rather than managing a name for a decade.

A separate domain earns its keep in three situations: an offline campaign where the name has to be said aloud and remembered, a legally distinct promotion, or a market with its own ccTLD. Anything else is usually nostalgia for exact-match domains, which stopped being a shortcut a long time ago.

If you do register one, decide the end-of-life plan at the same time. Either it redirects permanently to a page that will still exist, or it is allowed to lapse on a date you have written down. Both are fine; drifting is not.

Redirects that outlive the campaign

Print, radio and vehicle livery keep sending traffic to a name for years after the media spend stops. So the redirect from a retired campaign name matters more than the landing page ever did, and it should point at something durable — a category page, not the offer.

Do it at the server rather than inside the application, in one hop. Chained redirects are slower and lose a little on each step, and a redirect that depends on a CMS booting is a redirect that fails on the day the CMS does not.

Keep a list. Campaign name, what it redirects to, who signed off the renewal, and the date it may lapse. On a busy account that document is worth more than any individual landing page on it.

What makes the page genuinely quick

Load time read as conversion arithmetic, paid traffic being what turns a millisecond into money. A flat monthly figure, set beside subscriptions metered by page and by visitor. How quickly a page can be edited, since testing means editing it constantly. Forms that submit and pixels that fire, those two being the entire point of the page.

Hand-written HTML behind LiteSpeed with caching on is about as quick as the web gets, because nothing has to be computed before the response goes out. A lean builder on WordPress is a little behind that and far easier to edit at short notice. Either way the monthly figure does not move.

What we would order

The Sprint option. One figure whatever the campaign does to your traffic, with the certificate, the move, the copies and the mailboxes already counted in.

NVMe storage and LiteSpeed caching sit under every tier, the smallest plan included — that is the floor here, not an upgrade.

Mailboxes at your own name are part of the plan, so the reply-to address on a campaign is one you hold rather than one a platform lends you.

A new venture putting the first version of its site online

The second bill that grows with a campaign

There are no referral fees behind this recommendation, and no interest in selling you a name per campaign. Most of them should be subdomains, and saying so costs us registrations.

Mailboxes on your own name are inside the plan, so the MX records point at something you already paid for.

  • Subdomains created from the panel in seconds
  • Certificates covering every campaign hostname
  • Redirects handled once, at the server
  • A flat monthly figure, whatever the traffic does

Why Hosting & Domains

Standard on every plan

The essentials inside, not added on

SSL, the migration, mailboxes and daily copies come with the plan rather than appearing at the checkout.

One rate, printed where you can read it

You renew at the figure you ordered at, and no band of traffic moves it. A campaign that works does not raise the bill.

A campaign hostname in seconds

Subdomains you create yourself, each covered by the certificate, deleted just as easily when the promotion ends.

The verdict as an order line

Sprint is this page's conclusion with a price attached: one figure, the essentials counted in, upgradeable without a move.

A company on the public record

Azaanex Inc., federally incorporated in Canada — checkable before you point a campaign at anyone.

NVMe and LiteSpeed as the baseline

Under every tier including the smallest, which is where an instant static page comes from.

Prices Side by Side

How our prices sit against the majors

What the market typically charges to join and to renew, set beside ours, including the renewal figure most comparison charts leave out.

Prices and features at Hosting & Domains set beside three competing hosts
FeatureHosting & DomainsMost popularTypical household-name hostTypical bargain hostTypical loss-leader deal
Starting price / mo*$2.42/mo$4–$6$2–$4$1–$3
Renewal price / mo$2.42/mo$10–$15$8–$12$4–$6
Entry-level plan renews at the price you signed up at
SSL as standard
Migration done for you
NVMe drives on the entry-level tier
Backups run every day from the first tier up
Real humans on support, 24/7

*Our own column shows the lowest-priced annual plan on our books, pulled live from the same catalogue that feeds the pricing page, which is why it cannot go stale. Beside it sit three columns holding the ranges that hosts in each bracket tend to advertise: introductory rates that normally ask for one to four years up front, then climb once the term runs out. Naming rivals and printing their figures is something we gave up, since a price nobody can verify on the day you happen to read this has no business on the page. Measure us against the host you are actually weighing up, and give the renewal row the hardest look of the lot.

Quick Start

Order placed to site online

  1. 1

    Default to a subdomain

    One record, covered by the certificate, deleted when the campaign ends. Reserve a separate domain for offline recall or a distinct market.

  2. 2

    Write the end-of-life plan before launch

    For any name you do register: what it redirects to, and the date it may lapse. Decide once rather than renewing out of uncertainty.

  3. 3

    Point retired names at something durable

    A category page, not the offer. Print and livery keep sending traffic years after the media spend has stopped.

  4. 4

    Keep the redirect list current

    Name, destination, who approved the renewal, lapse date. It is worth more than any single landing page on the account.

Built In

Fitted to every plan

  • Subdomains and DNS records you create yourself
  • Certificates covering every campaign hostname
  • Redirects handled at the server rather than by plugin
  • Free SSL on every plan, reissued before the old one lapses
  • NVMe SSD storage on every tier, not only the dear ones
  • LiteSpeed caching in the server itself rather than bolted on by plugin
  • Mailboxes that answer at the name you hold
  • A renewal figure identical to the one you registered at
  • Expiry and renewal dates shown in the client area
  • No set-up charge at any point, and no joining fee

Frequently Asked

Questions we field again and again

Should each campaign get its own domain or a subdomain?

A subdomain, in most cases. It costs one record, sits under the certificate you already have, inherits the parent domain's standing and disappears cleanly when the promotion ends. Register a separate name when it has to be said aloud and remembered offline, when the promotion is legally distinct, or when a market needs its own ccTLD — and settle its lapse date at the same time.

What do I do with campaign domains after the campaign?

Decide before launch, not after. Either the name redirects permanently to something durable — a category page rather than the offer, in a single hop at the server — or it is allowed to lapse on a date you have written down. What costs money is neither: a name renewed every year because nobody is certain whether anything still points at it.

Do dedicated landing-page platforms convert better?

Their templates are genuinely good. Conversion, though, comes from the offer, the wording and the load time — and none of those three requires a platform that bills by the visitor. Learn the layout lessons and leave the meter where it is.

What is the fastest possible landing page?

Hand-written HTML behind LiteSpeed with caching on. There is nothing to compute, so the response is about as quick as the web allows. A lean WordPress builder sits just behind it and is far easier to change on deadline. Neither route bills you per lead, and neither bill moves when the campaign works.

How do payments and auto-renewal work?

Card payment through a secure checkout, and the renewal is charged at the figure on the original order rather than a revised one. Invoices are all in the client area, and auto-renewal is a toggle you can turn off yourself — for the hosting and for each name separately, which matters on an account holding campaign domains.

Keep reading

  • Web Hosting

    Standard hosting with subdomains, certificates and a flat bill whatever the traffic does.

  • Charity Hosting

    Charity hosting on the same terms, for a campaign with no media budget behind it.

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