Buyer's Guide
Static HTML Site Hosting — what really decides it
Written for people running hand-written and generator-built static sites — the tests that matter, the trap to sidestep, and where we would honestly send you.
Straight answer first
If you read one paragraph only, the right pick is a Launch plan serving your files over LiteSpeed with free SSL — deploy by SFTP or Git, get your speed from physics, and pay for it out of the change in your pocket.
Everything below unpacks that recommendation: the tests to apply, the classic mistake, and how to check any of it for yourself before spending a penny.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026
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Most advice on this subject is a ranking table funded by referral fees. This page works differently: name the buyer (people running hand-written and generator-built static sites), name the tests, name the trap, and give a recommendation we are happy to defend across the counter.
One market fact frames the whole thing: static files on a LiteSpeed and NVMe stack go about as fast as web content can go. What the static-hosting startups actually sell is workflow convenience layered on performance that ordinary hosting already provides.
The handful of checks that matter
Hold every candidate against these, in this order:
Raw serving speed for files that need no processing at all.
A deployment method that suits you: SFTP, Git or rsync.
The extras a static site still wants: SSL, redirects, custom error pages, somewhere for forms to go.
How low the bill goes for a site that asks almost nothing of the server.
Read this before you compare price tags
Assuming a static site needs a special platform; ordinary hosting serves static files superbly, with fewer moving parts and no vendor vocabulary to learn.
The pattern lasts because its cost lands later: at renewal, at migration, or at the worst possible point in your growth. The antidote is dull arithmetic — total cost across two or three years, with every 'extra' you would actually need added in.
What we would order in your position
A Launch plan serving your files over LiteSpeed with free SSL — deploy by SFTP or Git, get your speed from physics, and pay for it out of the change in your pocket.
On our shelves that means the Launch plan — SSL, migration and mail included, a renewal price matching the order price, and an upgrade path so the choice never has to be made again from scratch.
Real people answer the counter at any hour, including the awkward questions other hosts wave off as out of scope.
How to check all this yourself
Run the same checks on us as on anybody else: message support before you pay and see who answers, hold the renewal price against the order price, read the refund terms end to end, and look the company up — ours is Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales, and the record is public.
The refund window covers the rest — move a real site across (the free migration makes that painless), live with it for a fortnight, and let daily use settle what no marketing page can.
Why we can afford to give a straight answer
Most 'best hosting' writing is paid ranking. Ours has a simpler motive: we recommend the setup we would sell you anyway, and we say so — which leaves the rest of the page free to be genuinely useful.
Mailboxes on your own domain are part of the plan, never an add-on sold back to you at checkout.
- Tests you can run for yourself
- Renewal prices on the tag, not in a footnote
- The free move in makes trying us painless
- A refund policy with no small print
Why Hosting Seller
On every plan, as standard
Support you can try first
Ask us something hard before you pay — how a host behaves pre-sale is the ceiling of what follows.
A real ladder to climb
Shared, VPS and dedicated all under one roof — today's choice never boxes you in tomorrow.
A company you can look up
Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales — a host with a public record you can read before trusting.
Written for the real buyer
The tests here come out of actual conversations with people running hand-written and generator-built static sites, not off a feature spreadsheet.
A refund without a gauntlet
If it does not suit, leaving is a request rather than a negotiation — which is why we are content to be tested.
One price, plainly printed
The order price is the renewal price — the comparison that matters is the one we win without trying.
Price Tags Compared
Our figures beside the big names
Sign-up and renewal prices for GoDaddy, Hostinger and Namecheap, set next to ours — the second number most comparison charts leave off.
| Line item | Hosting SellerBest seller | GoDaddy | Hostinger | Namecheap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price / mo* | $2.09/mo | $5.99 | $2.99 | $1.88 |
| Price at renewal / mo | $2.09/mo | $11.99 | $10.99 | $4.29 |
| Entry plan renews at the same price | ||||
| SSL on every plan | ||||
| Site migration included | ||||
| NVMe storage on the entry plan | ||||
| Daily backups on the entry plan | ||||
| Live human support, 24/7 |
*Our figure is the cheapest plan we sell, on an annual term. The competitor figures are the lowest shared-hosting price each of them published in July 2026 — those introductory rates normally require signing up for 1–4 years and rise once that term ends. Check their own sites for what they charge today.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Write the requirement in one sentence
Put down what the site has to do and for whom — for people running hand-written and generator-built static sites, that one sentence usually settles half the plan choice by itself.
- 2
Price the second year, not the first
Teaser rates are this market's favourite trick, so compare hosts on what year two costs and the field reorders itself on the spot.
- 3
Try it inside the refund window
A live trial with your own site answers what no review can, and the free migration plus the refund policy make that trial genuinely risk-free.
In the Box
Packed with every plan
- A 30-day money-back guarantee on every hosting plan
- Site migration done for you by our staff, at no charge
- The Softaculous installer for one-click application setup
- Nothing added at setup — no joining fee, ever
- cPanel, the panel the rest of the trade already knows
- The renewal price printed on the tag matches the order price
- Upgrades apply to the account in place, with no move between plans
- A domain free for year one when you order annually
- WordPress Toolkit, with updates applied for you
- PHP versions picked per site from the panel
Across the Counter
The questions we get asked most
Why pick ordinary hosting over a static-site platform?
Fewer proprietary layers: no build-minute quotas, no bandwidth bands, no house vocabulary to learn. And the things a static site eventually wants — a form endpoint, a contact script, an email address — live here naturally.
Can I deploy straight from a static site generator?
Yes. Build locally or in CI, then push the output over rsync, SFTP or a Git pull. Hugo, Eleventy, Astro and the rest are all just producing files, and files are what hosting serves best.
How do I pay, and does it bill again on its own?
Orders go through a secure checkout by credit or debit card, and the renewal is taken at the same price you first paid. Every invoice sits in the client area for you to read, and switching auto-renewal off is a toggle in your account rather than a phone call.
Do you shift an existing site across at no charge?
We do. Open a ticket with the login details for your current host and the whole lot comes over: files, databases, mailboxes and configuration. You check the copy before DNS changes hands, and the old site keeps serving customers until the new one takes the traffic, so nobody ever sees a gap.
Can one plan hold more than a single website?
From the Pro tier upward, yes — several sites, each with its own domain, mailboxes and certificate, all under one account. If those extra sites belong to clients rather than to you, reseller hosting is the better fit: it gives each one proper separation.
Is there a refund if it does not suit?
Yes — thirty days. Put the hosting through real work, and if it is not right, ask for the money back and you get it; there is no retention script to survive first. Domain registrations are the one carve-out, because registries take that fee the moment the name is placed.
Who actually runs the company?
Hosting Seller is a trading name of Bohzo Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales — a real business with a public record and terms published under English law. Looking that up is worth doing about any host before you hand over your domain.
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