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One server runs many customers' websites, and the cost of the machine is shared between them. That is what makes it the cheapest way to put a site online, and why it suits personal sites, small businesses and anything that does not need a machine to itself.

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If your site runs on PHP — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Laravel, or something written for you — this is the platform it expects. If it is written in ASP.NET or needs MSSQL, Windows Web Hosting is the one to look at instead.

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It depends on the plan, and the figures on each card come straight from the platform rather than from a marketing page. Compare them side by side above and pick the one that covers what you actually use.

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Not on these plans: each one is single-domain, which is what keeps it this simple and this cheap. For several sites under one account, Windows Web Hosting sells multi-domain plans with the site count on the card, and reseller hosting divides one package into separate cPanel accounts — one per customer or per project.

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Yes, on your own domain. How many mailboxes depends on the plan — the card states the number, and it is not the same on all three, so check it against how many addresses you actually need.

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No. You can point a domain you already own at the hosting, or register one here so that both renew together on one account. The domain search will tell you what is free.

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Yes. Get in touch once the hosting is set up and we will help move the files, the database and the mail across, and tell you when to change the domain records.

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Yes. It is not something you can do yourself from your account yet, so get in touch and we will move you up — said plainly here rather than leaving you to hunt for a button that does not exist.

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Yes, for your own domain's files. Root access is not part of shared hosting and never will be — the machine is shared — so anything that needs root belongs on a VPS or a dedicated server.

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The platform takes its own copy on a five-day cycle and we can restore from it if you ask. Treat that as a safety net rather than as your backup: take your own from cPanel, on a schedule that matches how often your site changes.

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Yes — the servers run ClamAV. It is not a substitute for keeping your applications and plugins up to date, which is where most of the trouble on shared hosting actually starts.

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No. A shared plan is for your own sites, and dividing it up and selling it on is what reseller hosting is for: WHM, your own packages, your own customers, each with their own cPanel.

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Yes — thirty days. If it is not what you expected, tell us inside the first month and you get your money back.

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Us, from the contact page or from a ticket in your account. The answers to most of what comes up are written down in the support section first, including step-by-step guides with screenshots of the panel you will be looking at.

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One server runs many customers' websites, and the cost of the machine is shared between them. That is what makes it the cheapest way to put a site online, and why it suits personal sites, small businesses and anything that does not need a machine to itself.

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When the application was written for it — ASP.NET, or anything that expects SQL Server. If your site is PHP, which covers WordPress and most content systems, Linux Web Hosting is the cheaper and more common choice.

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It depends on the plan, and the figures on each card come straight from the platform rather than from a marketing page. Compare them above and pick the one that covers what you use.

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Windows hosting is chosen for applications that need the Microsoft stack. If your site is PHP and nothing else requires Windows, the Linux platform is the one built for it.

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On the plans that say so. Some of the plans above state a number of websites on the card — those host that many, each with its own domain, added from Plesk. The rest are single-domain. It is on the card either way, so compare before you buy rather than after.

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On your own domain, yes, where the plan states it — the mailbox figure is one of the lines on the card, and it is not the same on every plan. Check it against the number of addresses you actually need.

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No. Point a domain you already own at the hosting, or register one here so both renew together on one account.

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Yes. Get in touch once the hosting is set up and we will help move the files, the database and the mail across, and tell you when to change the domain records.

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Yes. It is not something you can do yourself from your account yet, so get in touch and we will move you up — said plainly here rather than leaving you to hunt for a button that does not exist.

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No — not on Windows hosting. Plesk covers what you would reach for it: files, databases, scheduled tasks, mail and certificates. If you need a command line on the machine itself, that is a VPS or a dedicated server.

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The platform takes its own copy on a five-day cycle and we can restore from it if you ask. Treat that as a safety net rather than as your backup: take your own from Plesk, on a schedule that matches how often your site changes.

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Yes — the servers are scanned with ClamAV. It is not a substitute for keeping your application and its components patched, which is where most of the trouble on shared hosting actually starts.

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No. A shared plan is for your own sites. Dividing one up and selling it on is what reseller hosting is for — and there is a Windows version of it, with your own packages and a Plesk login for each customer.

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Yes — thirty days. If it is not what you expected, tell us inside the first month and you get your money back.

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Us, from the contact page or from a ticket in your account. The answers to most of what comes up are written down in the support section first, including step-by-step guides with screenshots of the panel you will be looking at.

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The technical half is ours: the server, the tuning, the security patches and the WordPress core updates. WordPress is installed when the service is, caching and the CDN are configured, and the certificate is issued — so what is left for you is the site itself rather than the maintenance around it.

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Linux Web Hosting is general-purpose shared hosting with cPanel: run WordPress on it if you like, or Joomla, or your own PHP application. This product is built for one thing — WordPress arrives installed, keeps itself patched, and runs on the memory and CPU the plan states rather than on a share of a machine. The trade is cPanel: this product does not have one.

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The storage, site count, memory and CPU are identical line for line — compare the first card of one with the first card of the other. Shield adds two things: an automatic cloud backup of the site, and regular malware scanning. Both are allowances rather than promises of a size, so each Shield card states its own.

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Setup starts the moment the payment clears and usually finishes in a few minutes. The service page shows the state while it runs and we email you when it turns active — and if it has not finished after half an hour, it is flagged for us to look at rather than left sitting there.

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In the provider's United States region. That is the only region this shop sells, so there is no data-centre choice to make at checkout — worth knowing if most of your readers are somewhere a long way from it.

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On Shield plans an automatic cloud backup runs for you, with the allowance the card states. On Pro plans there is none — that is the difference you are paying less for — so keep your own copies. Either way, a backup you have never restored is a hope rather than a plan.

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Moving up to a bigger plan is possible; moving back down is not, and it is not something you can do yourself from your account yet — get in touch and we will move you up. Memory and CPU can be increased on the plan you already hold, without a reboot. The number of WordPress installations is fixed by the plan, so pick by the site count on the card rather than by the price.

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Yes. A free Let’s Encrypt certificate is generated and installed for every domain on the package when the order completes, and renewed for as long as the service runs. A certificate you already hold elsewhere cannot be moved onto it.

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No — this product does not include cPanel, and we would rather say so here than let you find out afterwards. The site is run from the WordPress dashboard, and the service from the hosting panel that comes with the order. If you want cPanel for files, databases and mail, Linux Web Hosting is the offer to start from.

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No. Each plan runs the number of separate WordPress installations stated on its card, and a Multisite network is not one of the things it can be turned into.

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Yes. Any third-party email service works with the domain. If the domain is using the nameservers this hosting provides, tell us which service you have chosen and we will publish the records it needs.

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Yes. Get in touch once the hosting is set up and we will help move the files, the database and the uploads across, and tell you when to change the domain records.

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Not on this offer. It is stated here rather than in the small print, because it is the kind of thing that should change your mind before you pay and not after.

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Shared hosting with the awkward part taken out. You get the same familiar cPanel, on a platform where processor and memory are yours by the figure on the card rather than by whatever the machine has spare — and where an extra unit of each can be added later without moving the site.

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The technology underneath. Everything shared hosting does, this does — plus a stated amount of CPU and memory, room to add one more unit of each, and solid-state storage on the plans whose card says SSD. If your traffic is steady and modest, Linux Web Hosting is the simpler and cheaper answer.

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Solid-state storage: no moving parts, and reads and writes that finish sooner than the spinning disks that came before it. It matters most to a site that queries a database on every page. Three of the plans here are built on it and their cards say so; the older Unlimited Cloud plan is not, and its card does not.

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Yes. A caching layer sits in front of the site so a page that has already been built can be served again without rebuilding it — which is what keeps a busy hour from turning into a slow one.

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One additional CPU unit and one additional memory unit per plan, bought from the service page. Each raises an invoice first and is added at the platform once that invoice is paid, and the button stops being offered once the unit is on the service. If you need more than the units allow, talk to us before you buy — the answer may be a different product.

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No — plans are not exchanged for one another in either direction, and we would rather write that here than let you buy the small one expecting to trade up. What grows is the plan you hold: the CPU and memory units above. Choose by the specification on the card.

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Yes, as a paid add-on, bought from the service page like the CPU and memory units — an invoice first, then the address. Every cloud plan sold here is in the United States region, so there is no second region where the answer would be different.

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Buy the certificate — from us or anywhere else — and open a ticket to have it installed on the cloud package. Installation is done for you rather than left as a cPanel exercise, and the certificate stays yours.

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Yes. cPanel carries an installer for the usual applications — WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, shop and forum software — so the common ones go on without an upload, a database created by hand and a config file edited by hand.

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Yes, and it costs nothing: switch SSH on from the service page. It is off until you ask for it, which is the right default for an account that does not need it.

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Your content is your responsibility. The platform takes its own weekly backup and we can restore web, mail or database content from it if you ask — but that is a safety net for us, not a backup service for you, and it is the wrong thing to rely on. Take your own from cPanel, or keep them somewhere off the platform entirely.

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No. Cloud hosting is a managed platform: the operating system and the runtime are ours to look after. A VPS hands you the whole machine and root access, and expects you to run it. Both are sold here.

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No. Point a domain you already own, or register one here so both renew together on one account.

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Yes — thirty days. If the platform is not what you expected, say so inside the first month and you get your money back.

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You buy one package of disk space and bandwidth, then divide it into smaller hosting packages and sell those under your own name. WHM is where you create each package and hand it to a customer; the customer gets a cPanel of their own for the package you made them.

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Two. WHM gives you administrative control of the whole reseller package, and every account you create inside it comes with its own cPanel — so a customer manages their own site without reaching anything of yours.

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From WHM. You decide how much of your storage and bandwidth each package gets, create it, suspend or resize it later, and manage every account from the same place.

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It depends on the plan — the cPanel account count, storage and bandwidth are stated on each card above rather than left vague. Pick the plan that covers the customers you have, and move up as you win more.

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WHMCS — client management, support and billing in one — is supported on Advance, Pro and Ultimate, and each card above says so. It is a separate licence rather than part of the plan price; buy it from your service page once the hosting is running.

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What the card says: bandwidth is stated per plan, from the smallest to the largest, and so is storage. Both are the figures the platform bills against, which is why they are printed rather than described as generous.

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No. Reseller hosting is white-label: your customers see your brand and use their own cPanel. The infrastructure behind it is not something they deal with.

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The accounts. Everything below them — hardware, operating system, patching, network — is maintained for you, which is the difference between reselling and running a VPS.

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Yes. You are buying capacity, and how you package and price it is entirely your decision.

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If you build or maintain sites for other people, one reseller package holds all of them instead of several shared plans billed and managed separately — which is usually cheaper and always less to keep track of. It also lets you sell hosting alongside what you already do, or as a business of its own.

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Yes. Softaculous is integrated on every reseller plan, so WordPress and the usual applications install from the panel rather than being uploaded and configured by hand.

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Yes. It is not something you can do yourself from your account yet, so get in touch and we will move you up — said plainly here rather than leaving you to hunt for a button that does not exist.

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Yes — thirty days, no questions asked. If the platform is not what you expected, tell us inside the first month and you get your money back.

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Linux covers PHP sites, which is most of the web and almost certainly most of your customers. Choose Windows reseller hosting only if the customers you are selling to run ASP.NET or need MSSQL. Nothing stops you holding both.

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We support you, and we are honest about the limit: we do not deal with your customers directly. They are your customers and your brand is the one in front of them, so questions come to you and come to us only if you cannot answer them. Reach us from the contact page whenever that happens.

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You buy one package of disk space and bandwidth, then divide it into smaller hosting packages and sell those under your own name. Your Plesk reseller panel is where you create each package and hand it to a customer, and WHMCS — available on every plan but the base one — is where you bill them for it.

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When the customers you are selling to run ASP.NET applications or need SQL Server. For PHP sites — which is most of the web — Linux reseller hosting is cheaper and more widely expected.

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Plesk. Your reseller panel gives you administrative control of the whole package, and each customer gets their own Plesk login for the package you created for them — so they can manage their own site without reaching anything of yours.

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From your reseller Plesk panel. You decide how much of your disk space and bandwidth each package gets, create it, and manage it from the same place afterwards.

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WHMCS — client management, support and billing in one — is supported on every plan except the base one, and each card above says so. It is a separate licence rather than part of the plan price; buy it from your service page once the hosting is running.

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It depends on the plan. Storage and bandwidth are stated on each card above rather than left vague — divide those between your customers however suits you.

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No. Reseller hosting is white-label: your customers see your brand and their own Plesk panel.

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If you build or maintain sites for other people, one reseller package holds all of them instead of several shared plans billed and managed separately — which is usually cheaper and always less to keep track of. It also lets you sell hosting alongside what you already do, or as a business of its own.

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No. The platform underneath your accounts is maintained and licensed for you; you sell the accounts on top of it.

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Yes. The usual applications install from the panel on every plan, rather than being uploaded and configured by hand.

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Yes. It is not something you can do yourself from your account yet, so get in touch and we will move you up — said plainly here rather than leaving you to hunt for a button that does not exist.

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Yes — thirty days, no questions asked. If the platform is not what you expected, tell us inside the first month and you get your money back.

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Yes. They are separate plans, and nothing stops you holding both if your customers are split across the two stacks.

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We support you, and we are honest about the limit: we do not deal with your customers directly. They are your customers and your brand is the one in front of them, so questions come to you and come to us only if you cannot answer them. Reach us from the contact page whenever that happens.

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No. The platform connects over SFTP and to your database, so it backs up a site anywhere you can give it those two things.

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Not instantly. A person here opens the backup account and sends you the connection step, usually the same working day. The first backup runs as soon as the site is connected.

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One connection — one set of files and one database. Each plan states how many it covers, and the number is on the card above rather than in the small print.

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Backups stop being added until there is room, so the right moment to move up a plan is before that rather than after. Move up whenever you like — write to us and we will change it.

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Every plan on this page carries unlimited retention, which is the provider's own word for it: versions are kept rather than expiring after a set number of days.

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Yes, on every plan. You can also roll the whole site back in one action, or download a backup as a zip and do it yourself.

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No, and the difference is where they live. A host's backup usually sits on or beside the same machine. This one does not, which is the case it exists for.

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Thirty days, stated by the vendor in writing. That is the whole of it — there is no separate trial and no free tier.

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No. Web hosting and email hosting are part of the plan, which is the main reason to choose this over a builder that hosts your site somewhere you do not control. One product, one renewal, one place to ask when something is wrong.

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It is the number of pages your site can have: five, fifty or ninety-nine depending on the plan. A page is a page — Home, About, Contact, one per product or post. Most small business sites live comfortably inside five; pick fifty if you intend to blog or list a catalogue.

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No, and that is the point of it. You choose a theme, move components around, and type into the page. If you do write HTML and CSS, you can style the themes yourself — the option is there and it is not the route you are pushed down.

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Yes. Every one of the themes is responsive, so the layout rearranges for the screen it is being read on. Most people who will visit your site are on a phone, which is why this is the first feature on the list and not a footnote.

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Yes. The storefront is part of the builder — products, a cart and checkout, with PayPal for payment and an eBay store integration if you already sell there. You do not need a second platform or a developer to connect one.

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Five mailboxes on the five-page plan and ten on the larger two, on your own domain, reachable by webmail, POP3 or IMAP — so the same mailbox works on a phone, a laptop and in Outlook at once. The platform states up to 2 GB per inbox; the mailbox count is what the plan itself publishes.

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Posts can be imported from WordPress, and new ones share to social networks from the editor. If the blog is the whole site rather than part of it, tell us — WordPress hosting may suit you better, and we sell that too.

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The builder does the mechanical part: SEO-friendly URLs, page-level meta tags, editable alt text and markup, and a sitemap.xml it generates and keeps current. What it cannot do is the part that actually moves rankings — writing pages worth finding. Nobody's software does that.

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Over 175 themes and over 85,000 images, as the platform publishes them. Both numbers grow, so treat them as a floor rather than a specification, and ask us for the current figure if it is what decides your choice.

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No, and you do not need one. The builder stores the site for you; there is no database to design, connect to or back up. If what you are building genuinely needs one, you want web hosting or WordPress hosting instead, and we would rather tell you that now than after you have paid.

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Then you have outgrown it, and that is a good problem. The usual next step is WordPress hosting or web hosting with a site built properly on top — and if you would rather not build it yourself that second time either, our web design team does that. Moving is easier decided than undone, so ask before you start.

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Yes — thirty days. If it is not what you expected, say so inside the first month and you get your money back.

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