Website Builder
Drag it, drop it, watch it come together
More than 100 templates that suit any screen, selling blocks waiting to be dropped in, and an editor driven by drag and drop. On its own from $2.99/mo, or included at no cost with any hosting plan. Design skills optional.
Free
Included with every hosting plan
100+
Designer layouts to start from
0
Markup you write yourself
Mobile
Every layout scales down cleanly
Standalone
Buying the builder as a plan by itself
After a simple site without a whole hosting package? The Website Builder plan carries quick NVMe hosting and a certificate at no charge. Build it, publish it, done.
Website Builder
The builder on its own: drag, drop, publish
$2.99/mo
$35.88 today · billed annually
the price never jumps at renewal
- SSD storage
- 10 GB
- Websites
- 1
- Templates
- 100+
- SSL
- Free
- Drag blocks into position to build a page; no code required
- Pick from 100+ templates, all responsive out of the box
- The SSL certificate is free and renews itself before expiry
- E-commerce blocks come standard, too
- NVMe hosting underneath it, and the cost is already covered
- Aim any name you own at the published site
- Ask the AI and it drafts your opening pages, copy included
- Blog, contact forms and galleries included
- SEO settings on every page you publish
- Daily backups of everything you build
- Mailboxes on your own domain, included
- Edit whenever you like, and publish the changes as often as you want
- Humans on support 24/7, not bots
The order gets finalised over at Hosting Cheap, the shared billing system that sits behind all of our brands.
Already hold a Hosting & Domains plan? Open your dashboard and the builder is waiting there for you, with nothing extra to pay.
Your Head Start
Begin with a layout a designer has already drawn
Starting on a blank screen is slow going. Take instead the template built for your sort of site, whether that is a restaurant menu, a photography portfolio or an agency landing page, and it opens with sensible sections already sitting in place. From there you move them, restyle them, or throw them out altogether.
- Over 100 designer-built layouts
- Made for shops, journals and portfolios
- Nothing is locked — edit any element
- Prefer to start from nothing? Do that
Why It Works
Everything happens inside the browser, so there is nothing to install
Grab, place, finished
Lift a block, put it down where it ought to go, and the layout closes around it straight away. Whatever the editor shows you is precisely what a visitor will load. There is no gap between the two.
Start on 100+ templates
There is a ready layout waiting for agencies, journals, portfolios, restaurants and online stores alike. Push one far enough from its origin and nobody could name the template.
Small screens handled up front
No further setting up is needed, because every layout redraws itself for tablets and handsets. When the fine detail wants polishing, a separate mobile view is waiting for you.
Sell straight from the page
A few drags puts a product grid, a basket and a checkout onto the page, and orders can start arriving. No bolt-on retail platform. No plugin to wrestle with.
Your name, your palette
Fonts, colours and imagery all change on a click. Fix the palette once and every page falls in behind it, with nothing to set twice.
SEO controls on every page
On every page you fill in the title tag, the meta description and the alt text for each image, which means a crawler reads exactly the wording you chose.
Nothing To Code
Editing is pointing and clicking
All of it behaves the way you would expect. Click an element and you are editing it, drag it elsewhere and it moves, drop a fresh section into whatever gap you find. No theme needs configuring, no markup needs troubleshooting, and no backlog of updates sits waiting. The page just keeps up with you.
- What you edit is what publishes
- One click changes a font, colour or rule
- Step back or forward at any moment
- Nothing to patch, no add-ons to mind
Mobile First
Layouts adjust themselves to whatever device
Over half of all web traffic comes from phones, which is why small screens are looked after from the very first block you drop. Reflow takes care of itself. In the mobile preview you fine-tune sizing and spacing until the text stays readable and the buttons stay easy to hit.
- Responsive behaviour comes as standard
- A separate phone preview mode
- Tap targets built for fingers
- NVMe hosting keeps loads quick
Ready To Sell
Collect payments right on your own pages
Slot the selling blocks into any layout and orders can start arriving. Nothing else to buy, nothing new to learn.
Product showcases
Lay the full range out in neat grids that keep their shape at any screen width.
A secure basket and checkout
Buyers add items and pay under your own name, never handed off to some third party.
Media and gallery blocks
With sliders, lightboxes and embedded video, the pictures end up doing most of the explaining.
Blank Page To Published
Live in three moves
- 1
Pick your layout
Open any of the 100-plus designed templates, or take a blank page instead if building up from nothing suits you better.
- 2
Rearrange and restyle
Slide the sections into whatever order you want, drop in your own words and photographs, then work the styling until nothing feels borrowed.
- 3
Push it live
One press of publish and the site sits on brisk, defended hosting, with its free SSL certificate already applied.
Included As Standard
Everything packed into the builder
- Edit visually, drag to arrange
- 100+ screen-ready templates
- Selling blocks: catalogue and basket
- A free SSL certificate included
- Custom typefaces and colour sets
- Enquiry forms and embedded maps
- Per-page SEO controls
- Image and video gallery blocks
- A journal and news area built in
- Not one line of code
Bundled Free
It comes with your hosting plan
No add-on charge is hiding anywhere in this. A single invoice covers the builder, brisk NVMe hosting and a free SSL certificate, and the support team is on hand whenever something needs putting right.
- One bill, no separate builder fee
- A free SSL certificate on every site you publish
- Headroom for traffic as it climbs
- Round-the-clock help from real engineers
FAQ
Straight answers about the builder
What does the builder cost?
Nothing at all, if you already host with us. Every web hosting plan carries the builder, so an existing customer pays no extra. After the builder on its own? The standalone Website Builder plan is $2.99/mo, and brisk NVMe hosting plus a free SSL certificate come with it.
Is any coding experience needed?
None whatsoever. The whole thing is visual: drag, drop, click, type. Plenty of finished sites make the journey from blank page to live URL with nobody ever opening a code editor.
How does it look on a phone?
Tablets and handsets are handled by the templates themselves, so no responsive setup falls to you at any point. There is a mobile preview built in too, which lets you refine the small-screen version before anything goes live.
Will it carry an online store?
You can. Selling blocks cover product grids, the basket and a secure checkout, which means trading starts without a second retail platform being wired into the site.
Can I move to WordPress later?
Of course. WordPress and the rest of the standard application library run on that very same hosting plan, so picking the builder today shuts no doors on a different setup tomorrow.
Where do I start?
Buy any web hosting plan, open the builder from your dashboard, choose a template, then begin arranging blocks. A first version is usually public before the day has finished.
Start building from $2.99/mo.
Take the Website Builder plan on its own, or any hosting plan — either way the builder is already in your dashboard.
Launch the BuilderNot every site needs a developer. A clean page with your name, your hours and a contact form beats an empty domain every time, and the builder gets you there quickly. Hosting & Domains runs a single specification for everybody: NVMe storage, LiteSpeed caching, our London datacentre, and no quiet throttling of the cheaper tiers.
Aimed at beginners putting a first site together on their own. Pay for hosting and hosting is what turns up — a certificate, the move, nightly backups and engineers you can actually reach.
Live before the afternoon is out
Drop sections into place, edit the text where it sits, publish. Templates cover the common shapes, including trades, restaurants, portfolios and small shops, and every layout adapts to a phone with no second version to maintain. Outgrow it and WordPress installs on the same account.
Beneath the surface every site runs on the same platform: NVMe drives instead of spinning disks, LiteSpeed instead of a stock web server, and a 99.9% uptime figure written into the terms.
What you pay for the builder
Billing ought to be uneventful: one figure, stated up front, repeated at renewal, with promotions labelled plainly rather than tucked into a footnote. Every hosting plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee, so trying it risks nothing more than an afternoon.
The builder comes with the hosting rather than as a separate subscription. Domain, hosting, certificate and builder together cost less than most standalone builder plans charge on their own.
What comes with the builder
Published pages come off NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed, so a builder site loads like something a developer tuned. A free certificate installs itself, and nightly backups catch your edits along with everything else.
The invisible work — patching, monitoring, replacing hardware, filtering — is included and done by us. It is most of what the money actually buys.
- Mobile-ready layouts in a drag-and-drop editor
- Small-business templates for the common shapes
- Daily backups you restore yourself, in one click
- SSL issued free and auto-renewed
Good to Know
More that's built in
Zero design experience needed
Open a template, put in your own words and pictures, press publish. That is the whole job.
Scale up without relocating
Outgrowing a tier is fixed with one click in the panel rather than a migration eating your weekend.
Free to leave any time
No proprietary lock-in and no exit fees; we would rather earn the renewal than trap it.
Quick with zero tuning
Speed is the starting point: NVMe arrays and caching at the server make a site quick on day one.
SSL included free
HTTPS is arranged on each domain, free to issue and free to renew, for as long as the account exists.
Zero-cost transfers
Our team brings your existing site across at no charge, usually within a day.
Getting Going
Getting going takes three steps
- 1
Grab your plan
Pick any plan — every one includes the builder.
- 2
Add your domain
Take a new name from $2.99, or attach one you already hold.
- 3
Hit publish
Choose a template, make it yours, publish.
In Every Plan
Thrown in without an extra charge
- 30 days in which to change your mind on any hosting plan
- Hosting plans include the website builder
- Published sites get free SSL installed
- Network-edge DDoS filtering as standard
- WHOIS privacy at no cost on every registry that allows it
- One-click installer covering 240+ apps
- Accounts provisioned minutes after checkout
- Upgrade tiers without your files going anywhere
Still Curious
Questions that keep coming up
What if I want WordPress down the line?
Easily, and without changing host. WordPress installs in one click on the same account: build it on a temporary address, then move the domain across when it is ready. The builder site keeps serving until you retire it.
How long until everything is running?
Straight away. Orders provision themselves, and if you would rather we set things up, the help desk is staffed whatever hour you are reading this.
Does the renewal price differ from the joining price?
It renews at the price you joined on. Where a first-term promotion applied, its renewal figure was printed beside it before you ordered, so nothing appears later.
What if website builder hosting turns out not to suit me?
The plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. Say so inside the month and the refund is processed, with no exit interview and no hand-off to a retention team paid to argue.
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