Put your business online
Put your business online with a domain, a website and email on your own address, on one account and one bill. Start on the Free plan.
Get a domain, a website and email on your own address, all on one account. Start on the Free plan, with no card and no end date.
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A domain, a website and email
The Free plan includes Edge Proxy and email for your domain. You pay for the domain by the year, and your site runs on a server you pay for, on hosting you already have, or as a static site on our edge.
- Domains: Register a new domain for your business, or bring the one you have. We hide your contact details from public lookups at no charge.
- Edge Proxy: Serve your website through our network, with a free SSL certificate and a firewall in front of it.
- Mail Hosting: Mailboxes on your own domain, such as hello@example.com, that you read in webmail or any mail app.
What the Free plan gives your business
Every account starts on Free, with no card and no end date.
- DNS and protection for 3 websites. Put each domain in our DNS, and serve its site through Edge Proxy with a free certificate and a firewall. Each domain counts as one website.
- 5 mailboxes. Email on one domain of yours, with 1 GB in each mailbox and webmail to read it in a browser.
- 3,000 emails a month from your website. Send the email your website writes, such as contact form messages and receipts, through SMTP Relay.
The Free plan’s websites include DNS, certificates and protection on our network. The site itself runs on a server you pay for, on hosting you already have, or as a static site on our edge.
Run WordPress on App Deployment
What a WordPress site costs
A small business site on its own server, with its domain, worked out from our current prices.
Worked examples
A small business site on WordPress
CX2 with 2 GB of memory, 2 vCPUs and 20 GB of disk, running 24 hours a day with the CPU at 5%. A .com domain.
| What | Used | Free | Price | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress server: Memory | 1,460 GiB-hours | — | $0.0030 | $4.38 |
| WordPress server: CPU | 73 vCPU-hours | — | $0.015 | $1.10 |
| WordPress server: Disk | 14,600 GB-hours | — | $0.00005 | $0.73 |
| Domain: .com domain, billed yearly | 1 domain | — | $17.43 a year | $1.45 |
A month costs $12.16. That includes Server access at $4.50.
On a Pro account the same month costs $7.66, plus the Pro plan.
Each month assumes none of the free amounts is used yet, and prices are in US dollars before any promo code.
Get online in three steps
- Create your account. Sign up with your email address. Your account starts on the Free plan, with no card needed.
- Add your domain. Register a new domain from the dashboard, or add one you own and point it at our nameservers at your registrar.
- Set up your site and email. Put Edge Proxy in front of the server that runs your site, then create your mailboxes.
Order a WordPress server · Everything the Free plan includes
Guides for your website and email
Each guide in our docs takes you through one job, step by step.
- Put a website online: Get a domain, run your site on a server and serve it over HTTPS.
- Set up email for your domain: Verify your domain, create a mailbox and read your mail in webmail or a mail app.
- Add a domain you already own: Keep the domain where it is registered, and host its DNS with us.
- Move existing mail into a mailbox: Copy your mail across from another provider, such as Gmail or Microsoft 365.
- Domains and DNS: What a domain is, and how DNS points it at your site and your email.
- How email reaches an inbox: What MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records do for your email.
Start with a domain and email
The Free plan needs no card and has no end date. Add a server when your site is ready to go online.
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Frequently asked questions
What does it cost to start?
The Free plan costs nothing and needs no card. It includes DNS, certificates and protection for 3 websites, 5 mailboxes on one domain, and 3,000 emails a month sent from your website. You pay for a domain by the year. Your site runs on a server you pay for, on hosting you already have, or as a static site on our edge.
Can I keep the domain I already have?
Your domain can stay registered where it is. Add it to your account and change its nameservers at your registrar to ours, and we host its DNS from then on.
Do I need a server for my website?
Your site needs somewhere to run, and the Free plan includes no server. App Deployment can run WordPress, which we install for you, or your own app from a git repository. A Cloud Compute instance or the host you use today works too. Edge Proxy sits in front of it and serves it over HTTPS. A static site is the exception: it needs no server, because our edge serves its files.
Can I have email without a website?
Mail Hosting works on its own. Add your domain, create mailboxes and read them in webmail or any mail app, with or without a website on the domain.
What if my business needs more?
Pro gives 10 websites, 10 mailboxes of 10 GB on 3 domains, custom firewall rules and 3 team members, you included.
