Trade brief · Handmade Sellers
Handmade Sellers have earned a site that opens at once
Everything makers, craft sellers and small studios moving off marketplace platforms need behind a website worth trusting — speed, security and support inside the listed price, none of it buried.
The short answer
For handmade sellers, good hosting comes down to three things: pages that render at once on a phone, a site that keeps its footing at the worst moment, and real help with specifics like a store you own, rather than a marketplace charging per listing and per sale.
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
99.9%
Uptime commitment
24/7
Humans on support
Free
SSL, every plan
NVMe
Drives as standard
Take the design away and the site makers, craft sellers and small studios moving off marketplace platforms genuinely need is your work photographed honestly, a story about how it is made, a store and a commission route — every part of it carried by whatever hosting account sits underneath.
Marketplace fees, listing charges and compulsory advertising stack up until they take a meaningful share of every handmade sale, while a store on your own domain costs the same whether you sell one piece or a hundred. That single fact settles what matters in a hosting plan far better than any tick-box grid.
Ask anybody in this trade about their worst afternoon online and the story runs: watching marketplace fees and advertising charges eat the margin on work that took a week to make. This whole page is written to stop that.
Hosting that actually suits handmade sellers
Set the marketing aside and the requirements turn concrete: a store you own, rather than a marketplace charging per listing and per sale, the making process documented, since that is what justifies the price, stock handled for one-off pieces, which sell exactly once and a commission enquiry route separate from ready-made items.
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 watching marketplace fees and advertising charges eat the margin on work that took a week to make. 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.
The right kit for this job
The builds we watch succeed run on WooCommerce for a store on your own domain, WordPress with a process and studio blog and an enquiry form for commissioned pieces — 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 — the making process documented, since that is what justifies the price — beats an ambitious one left half-finished, and adding to it later is a plugin, not a rebuild.
Mailboxes, trust and the details a buyer notices
A message from you@yourdomain carries different weight to one from a free webmail account — the name tells a customer the business is real. Mailboxes at your own name come with every plan, so that standing costs nothing extra.
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.
Arranged around the way handmade sellers work
Most of our customers are makers, craft sellers and small studios moving off marketplace platforms — people who want the website off their desk, not an unpaid sideline in server administration.
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.
- 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
Support that actually moves
People at every hour who work the practical question in front of them rather than deflecting it.
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.
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.
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.
Quick precisely where it counts
NVMe drives with LiteSpeed caching land pages instantly on mobile — the screen where makers, craft sellers and small studios moving off marketplace platforms are judged first.
Quick Start
Order placed to site online
- 1
Set the plan and the name side by side
For most handmade sellers, Sprint or Turbo is the right size — the first-year name and the SSL are included from the start, and moving up later is a settings change rather than a relocation.
- 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
- WordPress and 400+ further applications installed in one click
- Softaculous included for one-click application installs
- LiteSpeed caching in the server itself rather than bolted on by plugin
- SSH, Git and Composer on the developer plans
- Webmail in the browser plus IMAP, POP and SMTP for any client
- Spam and virus screening on every mailbox by default
- NVMe SSD storage on every tier, not only the dear ones
- People on the support desk every hour of every day
- The name's first year included when you order annually
- Free SSL on every plan, reissued before the old one lapses
Frequently Asked
The questions that come up most
Is it worth leaving the marketplaces?
Work your own fees out. Listing charges, transaction cuts, payment processing and forced advertising mount up quickly, while hosting costs the same regardless of volume. Many makers keep a marketplace presence for discovery and push repeat customers to their own store.
How do I handle one-off pieces that sell once?
Put the stock quantity at one and WooCommerce marks the piece sold by itself. Keep the page up afterwards rather than deleting it, since sold work shows that people buy from you and gives commission enquiries something concrete to point at.
Can I choose the PHP version myself?
Yes — PHP is set per site from the control panel, so a legacy application and a current one can run side by side in one account. Extensions and per-site tuning are on the same screen, and none of it goes near a support ticket.
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.
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A plain order of work for a move nobody visiting will notice: which files go over first, how to carry the mail across without losing a message, when exactly to repoint DNS, and the two mistakes behind nearly every outage we are asked to rescue.
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Free SSL, a free migration, renewals billed at the original rate, and people on support around the clock. That is the whole of it.
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