Buying Guide
Reading past the marketing around Static HTML Site Hosting
Written for people running hand-coded sites and the output of static site generators — the checks worth running, the trap worth avoiding, and the recommendation we would give a friend.
The short answer
If one line is all you read, make it this: a Sprint plan serving your files through LiteSpeed with free SSL, so you deploy over SFTP or Git, let the absence of processing supply the speed, and pay almost nothing for it.
The rest of the page shows the working behind that call: which checks to run, the mistake to avoid, and how to verify every claim yourself before money moves.
By the Hosting & Domains team · Reviewed 18 August 2026
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Most writing on this subject is a league table funded by referral fees. We do it differently: name the buyer (people running hand-coded sites and the output of static site generators), name the checks, name the trap, and make a recommendation we will defend in the open.
Begin from one fact about this market and the rest falls in behind it: static files served from NVMe by LiteSpeed sit at roughly the ceiling of what web delivery can do. What the specialist static platforms really sell is workflow convenience laid over performance conventional hosting already provides.
The short list of checks that matter
Put every contender through these, top to bottom:
Raw delivery speed for files needing no processing at all.
A deployment method that suits your habits: SFTP, rsync or a Git pull.
The pieces a static site still wants: SSL, redirects, custom error pages and an endpoint for forms.
How far the bill falls for a site asking the server for almost nothing.
Read this before you compare a single price
Assuming static sites need a specialist platform, when conventional hosting delivers static files superbly with fewer moving parts and no proprietary vocabulary to learn.
The pattern keeps working because the bill arrives late — at renewal, mid-migration, or exactly when growth takes off. The cure is plain arithmetic: total the cost over two or three years with every add-on you would genuinely need.
What we would buy in your position
A Sprint plan serving your files through LiteSpeed with free SSL, so you deploy over SFTP or Git, let the absence of processing supply the speed, and pay almost nothing for it.
In our range that means the Sprint plan — SSL, the move and mail already inside, renewal charged at the order rate, and an upgrade path so this decision never has to be made twice.
Support means a person at any hour, and the remit covers the awkward practical questions other hosts hand straight back.
Check every word of this yourself
Put us through the same checks: write to support before paying and see who answers, compare the renewal rate with the order rate, read the refund terms in full, and look the company up — ours is UK Health Care Support Ltd, registered in England and Wales, on the public record.
The refund window covers the rest — bring a live site over (the free migration makes that easy), run it for two real weeks, and let ordinary use answer what no sales page can.
Our interest, declared up front
Most 'best hosting' writing is ranking for hire. Our motive is simpler and stated plainly: we recommend the setup we would sell you either way — which leaves the rest of the page free to be useful.
A copy is taken daily on every plan, and putting a file or a database back is one click in the panel rather than a support ticket.
- Checks you can run again yourself
- Renewal rates published, not footnoted
- A free migration makes the trial easy
- Refund terms with no small print
Why Hosting & Domains
Standard on every plan
Support you can test before paying
Put a hard question to us before you pay — how a host behaves pre-sale is the best it will ever treat you.
An upgrade path that is real
Shared, VPS and dedicated on one platform — today's choice never boxes tomorrow in.
A company you can look up
UK Health Care Support Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host whose filing you can read before committing to anything.
Written out of real conversations
Every check here traces back to real exchanges with people running hand-coded sites and the output of static site generators, not to a features spreadsheet.
A refund without an argument
If we are not the fit, leaving is one request rather than a negotiation — which is why we invite the test.
One rate, published in the open
What you order at is what you renew at — the only comparison that counts is one we win by default.
Prices Side by Side
Our figures beside the big names
What the market typically charges to join and to renew, set beside ours, including the renewal figure most comparison charts leave out.
| Feature | Hosting & DomainsMost popular | Typical household-name host | Typical bargain host | Typical 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 |
| Cheapest plan renews at its sign-up price | ||||
| SSL as standard | ||||
| Migration done for you | ||||
| NVMe drives on the cheapest tier | ||||
| Daily backups from the first tier | ||||
| Real humans on support, 24/7 |
*The figure in our column is the cheapest annual plan we sell, read live from the catalogue behind our pricing page, so it cannot drift out of date. The three columns beside it give the ranges hosts in each bracket tend to advertise: opening offers that usually want one to four years up front, then rise when the term ends. We stopped naming competitors and printing their prices, because a number we cannot check on the day you read it does not belong here. Set us against whichever host you are genuinely considering, and read the renewal row hardest of all.
Quick Start
Order placed to site online
- 1
Write the job down in one sentence
Write the workload and the audience in one line — for people running hand-coded sites and the output of static site generators, that line alone usually removes half the candidate plans.
- 2
Compare on what year two costs
Introductory rates are the oldest device in this market; rank hosts by the second year instead and the order rearranges itself at once.
- 3
Run a real trial inside the refund window
Putting your own site on the platform answers what no review can, and free migration plus the refund terms take the risk out of trying.
Built In
Fitted to every plan
- NVMe SSD storage on every tier, not only the dear ones
- WordPress and 400+ further applications installed in one click
- Softaculous included for one-click application installs
- Money back within 30 days on hosting plans, 7 on reseller
- Your existing site brought across by our engineers, at no charge
- Spam and virus screening on every mailbox by default
- No set-up charge at any point, and no joining fee
- cPanel, which is what most of the industry already runs
- 99.9% uptime as the target, watched around the clock
- Upgrades applied in place, with no migration when you change plan
Frequently Asked
The questions that come up most
Why choose conventional hosting over a static platform?
Fewer proprietary layers. There are no build-minute quotas, no bandwidth tiers and no house vocabulary to pick up. And the things a static site eventually wants — a form handler, a contact script, a mailbox on the domain — are already here without another subscription.
Can I deploy straight from my generator?
You can. Do the build locally or in CI, then send the output up with rsync, SFTP or a Git pull on the server. Hugo, Eleventy, Astro and the rest all produce plain files in the end, and plain files are exactly what hosting was built to serve.
How do payments and auto-renewal work?
You pay by credit or debit card through a secure checkout, and renewals bill at the same rate as the original order. Every invoice sits in your client area, and auto-renewal switches off with a toggle in the account — no telephone call needed.
Will you move my existing site free of charge?
Yes. Open a ticket with the login for your current host and we bring the lot across — files, databases, mailboxes, configuration. You check the copy before DNS moves, and the old site keeps taking traffic right up to the moment the new one serves it, so nobody meets a gap.
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