Trade brief · Art Galleries
Art Galleries have earned a site that opens at once
Everything commercial gallery owners, curators and artist-run exhibition spaces need behind a website worth trusting — speed, security and support inside the listed price, none of it buried.
The short answer
Art galleries need speed, uptime and the particulars of their trade — starting with an exhibition archive that stays online and searchable for years after a show closes — from a platform that never asks them to hire a webmaster to keep it moving.
All of it is standard — NVMe storage, LiteSpeed caching, free SSL and migration, mail at your own name and support around the clock — at a rate that reads the same when renewal comes.
By the Hosting & Domains team · Reviewed 18 August 2026
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Take the design away and the site commercial gallery owners, curators and artist-run exhibition spaces genuinely need is the current exhibition, an archive of past shows, represented artists and visitor information — every part of it carried by whatever hosting account sits underneath.
Here is the fact worth building on: a gallery's archive quietly becomes its most valuable page. Curators, writers and collectors search for past exhibitions long after the work has come off the walls.
The failure is always the same shape: a visitor turning up on a Monday because the private view had finished and nobody had changed the opening hours. Good hosting exists to design that outcome out.
What art galleries actually need from hosting
Written down plainly, the needs come to this: an exhibition archive that stays online and searchable for years after a show closes, artist pages that read as proper records rather than a caption under an image, visitor information — hours, access, nearest station — that stays correct without anybody remembering to check and installation photography that carries the scale of the space on a laptop screen.
None of it needs an enterprise budget — only a host that gets the fundamentals right: NVMe storage for pace, LiteSpeed caching for the busy hours, mailboxes included for the professional address, and a daily copy for the rough afternoons.
The response time visitors assume without asking
The visitors slow hosting costs you never complain about it; they simply leave. Consider the case of a visitor turning up on a Monday because the private view had finished and nobody had changed the opening hours. Nothing appears on an error page, nothing arrives as a support ticket, and the trade quietly goes elsewhere.
Our stack works on that from every side: NVMe disks return database queries in microseconds, LiteSpeed serves cached pages before PHP has started, and image optimisation keeps large photographs sharp without the weight. The result is a site that feels immediate on a phone over mobile data — which is where your customers actually are.
From a bare name to a working site
For this kind of site, the stack that holds up is WordPress with a custom post type for exhibitions, an installation-view gallery plugin and a newsletter signup for private view invitations — each one a single click to install from the control panel, with no command line in sight.
Start smaller than instinct suggests. A tight site that gets the essentials right — artist pages that read as proper records rather than a caption under an image — beats an ambitious one left half-finished, and adding to it later is a plugin, not a rebuild.
Mail, trust and the small professional details
Trust is built out of small signals: the padlock in the address bar, a mail address that matches the website, and a site that answers every single time somebody looks. All three are standard — free SSL, mailboxes at your own name, and a 99.9% uptime target with monitoring behind it.
Underneath all of it, a daily copy turns a botched update or a deleted folder into a ten-minute restore rather than a crisis — and support answers at any hour, which counts most at exactly the hours trouble prefers.
A hosting team that knows this trade
You should not have to think like a sysadmin — commercial gallery owners, curators and artist-run exhibition spaces host here precisely so the site looks after itself while the real work gets done.
The rate you register at is the rate you renew at, so year two costs precisely what year one did — nothing lying in wait on the invoice.
- The certificate and the move across cost nothing
- NVMe drives with LiteSpeed caching in front
- Mail at your own name from the first day
- People on the support desk around the clock
Why Hosting & Domains
Standard on every plan
SSL included, first day to last
Every plan carries the padlock — certificates issue and reissue themselves, and no line for them ever reaches an invoice.
Mail at the name you hold
Mailboxes at your own name come as standard — every enquiry is answered from an address that reads like the business.
A price with no second act
Renewal bills at the rate you ordered at — no teaser figure is lying in wait for year two.
Copies that take themselves
A fresh copy each day, restorable in one click — a ruined afternoon becomes a ten-minute rewind.
Headroom held inside the account
From a first site to heavy traffic, upgrades apply in place — no migration, no downtime, no drama.
The move is ours to make
Live somewhere else already? Our engineers bring the whole site over free, and you sign it off before anything turns.
Quick Start
Order placed to site online
- 1
Match the plan to the workload
Begin at the size you are. Even a compact plan carries a professional site for this trade with room to spare, and the tier moves up the moment traffic asks.
- 2
Get the build under way
A new build is one click in the installer; an existing one is a single migration request. Both routes end with you live, and neither goes near a configuration file.
- 3
Turn the DNS over and carry on
Point the name, open the site on your own phone, then go back to the day job — from there, copies, SSL renewals and uptime monitoring run themselves.
Built In
Fitted to every plan
- DDoS filtering absorbed at the network edge
- Softaculous included for one-click application installs
- Money back within 30 days on hosting plans, 7 on reseller
- LiteSpeed caching in the server itself rather than bolted on by plugin
- People on the support desk every hour of every day
- PHP versions set per site from the control panel
- A daily copy, with restores you run yourself from the panel
- Free SSL on every plan, reissued before the old one lapses
- Your existing site brought across by our engineers, at no charge
- A renewal figure identical to the one you registered at
Frequently Asked
The questions that come up most
When a new show opens, should the past ones come down?
Never delete them. Archive pages gather search traffic for years and become the reference curators and writers link to. Move the current show to the front, keep everything else reachable, and the archive goes on working long after the crates have gone.
Can we manage artist pages without a developer each time?
You can. Set the artists up as their own content type in WordPress and adding one becomes filling in a form: name, biography, works, exhibitions. Gallery staff maintain it directly, and the layout stays consistent whoever is typing.
Do plans include copies I can restore myself?
Yes — every plan gets a daily copy, and the restore runs from your panel in minutes: files, databases or both, at three in the morning with no ticket queue in the way. Keeping a further copy offsite is still a sound habit, and nothing here stops you.
Does hosting include mail?
Yes — every hosting plan includes mailboxes at your own name, with webmail, IMAP, POP and SMTP plus spam filtering on from the start. There is standalone email hosting too, for a name whose website lives somewhere else.
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