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Wix vs WordPress — You cannot host a Wix site, so this is a rescue quote
A client wants you to take over their Wix site, and the first thing to establish is that there is nothing there for you to take over.
Straight answer first
There is no version of a closed builder that an agency can host, brand or bill monthly, so a client on one is either a rebuild quote or a client you cannot properly serve — and the sooner that is said out loud, the better the conversation goes.
This is not really a platform comparison for you. It is a commercial fact: one option puts the site inside an account you control, where the hosting, the care plan and the relationship are yours, and the other keeps all three somewhere you have no access to.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 24 August 2026
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Agencies meet this from one direction almost every time: a client already on a builder, now wanting something the builder cannot do, asking you to look after it. The instinct is to be helpful and take it on. The correct move is to explain, in one sentence, what taking it on could possibly mean.
Then decide whether the rebuild is a job you want. Some are excellent — the client has outgrown a toy, has budget and now understands why. Others are somebody hoping to spend as little as possible on a site they have already half-built.
There is nothing to host, and nothing to bill
A closed builder is a service the client buys directly. There is no account for you to create, no panel for you to administer, no backup you can take, no server-side change you can make and no invoice with your name on it.
That means your only possible role is doing content edits inside somebody else's editor, at hourly rates, with no recurring hosting revenue and no ability to fix anything structural. It is the least valuable position in this trade.
Say it early and plainly. Clients do not resent a clear explanation of what you can and cannot do; they resent discovering the limits later, usually at the moment they need something urgent.
What a rescue actually involves
Content comes across by hand more often than people expect. There is no full site export to another platform, so pages are recreated, images are pulled down and re-uploaded, and a blog may come across through an export if one exists.
Then the functionality: forms, booking, shop, members' area — each one replaced with an equivalent you choose and will have to support. And then the redirects, because the client's existing search visibility is an asset you are being trusted not to break.
Audit before quoting. Count the pages, list the functions, check whether the domain is registered through the builder or held elsewhere, and find out who has the login. That last one delays more of these projects than anything technical.
Quoting it so nobody is surprised
Quote in stages with the content-entry stage priced separately and explicitly, because content entry is the part clients assume is free and the part that consumes the days.
Offer the client a choice: they enter the content and you build, or you do both at a stated rate. Giving them a lever makes the number feel fair, and it is genuinely the biggest variable in the job.
Be careful with the domain. If it was registered through the builder it will need moving, which has its own timing and its own possibility of stranding email, so it belongs in the plan as a named step rather than an assumption.
Where the client lands afterwards
Somewhere you can support and bill: a cPanel account of their own on your reseller plan, under your brand, with free SSL, daily backups, staging for future changes and mailboxes on their own domain.
That is the point of the whole exercise from your side. The rebuild is a project fee; the arrangement afterwards is a monthly relationship that keeps paying and keeps you useful.
And build the exit into it from day one. A full account backup on request, the domain unlocked when they ask, no drama. The reason clients end up trapped on closed platforms is that leaving was made difficult — do not reproduce that in your own business.
Somewhere you can actually stand
Once the site is on an account you control, everything an agency sells becomes possible: hosting under your brand, a care plan with real work behind it, staging before changes, and restores you can perform yourself.
Setup is free, the renewal figure matches the order figure, and migration in is handled at no charge — so the client who arrives from somewhere else does not arrive with a bill attached.
- An account you can administer
- Care plans with real work behind them
- Backups and restores you control
- A clean exit, offered up front
Why Hosting Seller
On every plan, as standard
A billable position
Hosting and care-plan revenue every month, instead of hourly edits inside somebody else's editor.
Access to fix things
A cPanel account you administer, so a structural problem is something you can act on rather than report.
Your brand throughout
Private nameservers, your package names and a client login that never mentions a company above you.
Staging for later work
Test the next redesign on a copy, which is how an ongoing relationship stays low-drama.
Backups that are yours
Daily backups with account-level restores, so the client's site is genuinely recoverable by you.
An honest exit
Full account backups and an unlocked domain on request — the opposite of the trap they have just left.
Price Tags Compared
How we compare with the household names
Typical sign-up and renewal prices across the market, set next to ours — the second number most comparison charts leave off.
| Line item | Hosting SellerBest seller | Typical big-brand host | Typical budget host | Typical loss-leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price / mo* | $2.42/mo | $4–$6 | $2–$4 | $1–$3 |
| Price at renewal / mo | $2.42/mo | $10–$15 | $8–$12 | $4–$6 |
| Renewal price on the entry plan is unchanged | ||||
| SSL on every plan | ||||
| Site migration included | ||||
| The entry plan uses NVMe storage | ||||
| Entry plan gets a backup daily | ||||
| Live human support, 24/7 |
*The number in our column is the cheapest plan on our shelf, priced on an annual term and pulled live from the very catalogue that feeds the pricing page, so it cannot drift out of date. Other columns show the ranges shared hosting tends to advertise inside each bracket: introductory rates that normally ask for a one-to-four-year commitment, then climb once that term expires. Naming individual competitors and printing their prices is something we have stopped doing. A figure we cannot re-check on the day you read it has no business sitting in front of you. So compare us with whoever you are genuinely weighing up, and read the renewal line first. That line tells you more than the headline ever will.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Establish what you would even be taking over
One sentence, early: there is no account, no panel and no backup for you to hold. Everything after that conversation is easier.
- 2
Audit pages, functions and the domain
Count the pages, list every function that must be replaced, and find out where the domain is registered and who has the login.
- 3
Price content entry as its own line
It is the biggest variable and the thing clients assume is free. Offer them the choice of doing it themselves and the quote stops feeling arbitrary.
- 4
Plan the domain move as a named step
If the name sits with the builder it has to be moved, with its own timing and its own risk to email. Never leave it as an assumption at the end of a plan.
In the Box
Packed with every plan
- A cPanel account of their own once the rebuild lands
- Private nameservers so the site resolves through your brand
- Free SSL issued and reissued on every site you host
- Daily backups with restores you can run at account level
- Staging copies for the redesigns that will follow
- Mailboxes on the client's own domain rather than a free address
- One-click installs across 240+ applications for a standard rebuild base
- Imunify360 watching the account once it is live
- Free migration in for the parts that can actually be migrated
- Free setup, with the renewal price matching the order price
Across the Counter
Things people ask us all the time
A client wants me to take over their builder site. What am I taking over?
Content editing inside somebody else's editor, and nothing else. No account, no panel, no backups, no server-side changes and no hosting revenue. Say so in the first conversation. The choice you are really offering is between hourly edits with no control and a rebuild that puts the site somewhere you can support.
How do I quote a rebuild without guessing at the content?
Count the pages and list every function before you quote, then price content entry as its own visible line. Offer the client the option of entering it themselves. Content is the largest variable in these jobs, and making it explicit is what keeps the total from feeling arbitrary.
Does the domain come with them automatically?
Not if it was registered through the builder. Treat the domain as a named step with its own timing, check where it is registered and who controls the login, and sequence it so mail is never interrupted. This is the step that delays these projects most often.
What do I put them on once the rebuild is finished?
A cPanel account of their own on your reseller plan, with free SSL, daily backups, staging for future work and mailboxes on their own domain. That is the arrangement that makes the client worth something to you every month rather than only once.
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