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Web hosting for art galleries, sold plainly

Everything independent galleries, artist-run project spaces and private dealers need to run a website worth trusting — speed, security and support on the price tag, with nothing hidden underneath it.

Straight answer first

Art galleries need speed, uptime and the particulars of the trade — starting with exhibition pages carrying private-view dates, refreshed on the gallery's own rhythm — from a setup that never asks them to hire a webmaster to keep it running.

All of it sits on the shelf as standard — NVMe speed, LiteSpeed caching, free SSL and migration, mail on your own domain and support around the clock — on a price tag that reads the same at renewal.

Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026

NVMe

Storage in every plan

Free

Domain, year one

99.9%

Uptime commitment held

Flat

Price at renewal

Take the design away and the site independent galleries, artist-run project spaces and private dealers actually need is what is showing now, what showed before, your artists, viewing rooms and visiting details — the whole lot standing on whichever hosting account happens to be underneath it.

Here is the trade fact worth planning around: the exhibition archive is a gallery's memory. Keep each past show at a fixed address and the press links stay alive for years, while your artists get something permanent to cite on their CVs.

The way it goes wrong is always familiar: a review in the press pointing at an exhibition page you overwrote, dropping every collector who clicks it onto a 404. Good hosting exists to take that outcome off the table entirely.

What art galleries actually need from hosting

Written out straight, the needs read like this: exhibition pages carrying private-view dates, refreshed on the gallery's own rhythm, a page per represented artist tying together works, CV and press coverage, online viewing rooms for the collectors who buy without ever visiting and an archive that keeps every past show alive at an address that never moves.

None of it needs an enterprise budget. It needs a host that gets the basics right: NVMe storage for the speed, LiteSpeed caching for the busy days, mailboxes included for the professional address, and a daily backup for the bad afternoons.

The speed your visitors expect without asking

Slow hosting costs you quietly, because the visitors it loses never complain — they simply go. Picture it plainly: a review in the press pointing at an exhibition page you overwrote, dropping every collector who clicks it onto a 404. No error page, no support ticket, just trade walking somewhere else.

Our stack goes at that from every angle: NVMe disks answer database queries in microseconds, LiteSpeed hands over cached pages before PHP has even woken up, and image optimisation keeps big pictures sharp without the weight. The result is a site that feels immediate on a phone on mobile data, which is where your customers actually are.

From bare domain to working site

For a site of this kind, the proven kit is WordPress with a gallery/exhibition theme, a viewing-room page pattern and email on the gallery's domain — every one of them installable in a single click from the control panel, with no command line anywhere in sight.

Start simpler than you think you should. A tight site that gets the essentials right — a page per represented artist tying together works, CV and press coverage — beats an ambitious one left half-finished, and the platform makes adding more later a plugin rather than a rebuild.

Mail, trust and the small professional details

Trust is built out of small signals: the padlock in the address bar, an email address that matches the website, and a site that is up every single time somebody checks. All three come as standard — free SSL, mailboxes on the domain, and a 99.9% uptime commitment with monitoring behind it.

Behind all that, a daily backup turns a bad update or a deleted folder into a ten-minute restore instead of a crisis — and support answers at any hour, which counts most at exactly the times trouble prefers.

Coworkers gathered around laptops in an office

A hosting shop that knows this trade

Most of the people we serve are independent galleries, artist-run project spaces and private dealers — customers who want the website handled, not a second career in server administration.

Mailboxes on your own domain are part of the plan, never an add-on sold back to you at checkout.

  • SSL and the move in, free on every plan
  • NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed caching
  • Mailboxes on your own domain included
  • Real people on the counter, any hour

Why Hosting Seller

On every plan, as standard

SSL on the tag, always

The padlock comes with every plan, issued and reissued automatically, and never rung up as an extra.

Mail that matches the sign

Mailboxes on your own domain are included — enquiries answered from an address that earns trust.

A price tag that stays put

Renewals are charged at the order price — no teaser rate waiting to bite you in year two.

Backups nobody has to remember

A backup taken daily, with one-click restores that turn a bad afternoon into a ten-minute fix.

Room on the shelf to grow

From a first site to serious traffic, upgrades apply in place — no migration and no fuss.

The move in is on us

Hosted somewhere else? We carry the whole site across free, and you check it before anything switches.

First Steps

From choosing to live

  1. 1

    Choose the plan that fits

    Start where you actually are. A small plan runs a professional site for this work without straining, and the tier can grow on the day the traffic does.

  2. 2

    Get the site standing up

    One-click installers handle a fresh build; the free migration service handles the existing one. Either way you are live without ever opening a config file.

  3. 3

    Go live and leave the worrying here

    Connect the domain, check the site on your own phone, and get back to the actual business — backups, SSL renewals and uptime monitoring run themselves from that point on.

In the Box

Packed with every plan

  • A backup taken daily, with restores you run yourself
  • Mailboxes that carry your own domain name
  • cPanel, the panel the rest of the trade already knows
  • Real people on the counter, every hour of every day
  • A free SSL certificate on every plan, reissued before it lapses
  • Site migration done for you by our staff, at no charge
  • A 99.9% uptime commitment, watched by monitoring day and night
  • A domain free for year one when you order annually
  • The Softaculous installer for one-click application setup
  • DDoS filtering handled out at the network edge

Across the Counter

The questions we get asked most

What exactly is an online viewing room, and does it need special software?

It is a private page of available works, with prices, shown only to collectors you invite. In practice that means a password-protected page holding high-resolution images and an enquiry button. WordPress does all of that on its own; there is nothing extra to buy.

Once an exhibition closes, should its page be taken down entirely?

Leave it up and move it into an archive section instead. Old show pages gather press links and search standing over time, and the artists involved keep pointing CVs and applications at them for years afterwards.

Are backups included, and can I put one back myself?

A backup is taken daily on every plan, and the restore is yours to run from the panel in minutes — files, databases or both, at three in the morning without waiting on a ticket. Keeping your own copy offsite as well is never a bad habit, and nothing here stops you.

Does hosting come with mailboxes?

It does — mailboxes on your own domain ship with every hosting plan, with webmail, IMAP, POP and SMTP access and spam filtering fitted as standard. There is also standalone email hosting for domains whose website lives somewhere else entirely.

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.

How do I read the mail when I am away from the desk?

Webmail opens in any browser, and every mailbox also speaks IMAP, POP and SMTP — so the mail app on your phone, the client on your desktop and webmail all show the same messages in the same order.

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.

Packing up and moving host? Take our checklist.

A plain running order for a move nobody notices: what to copy first, how to carry email across without dropping a single message, when to point DNS, and the two slips behind nearly every hour of downtime we get called about.

One email carrying the checklist, then the odd note on running a site well. Step off the list whenever you like — our privacy policy spells out the rest.

Give your website a proper home.

Every plan carries the essentials other hosts ring up as extras — and support that actually replies.

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