Trade guide · Artists
The hosting artists actually need
NVMe hosting set up around the way painters, illustrators and people working a printing press really work — SSL included, the move in done for you, and real people on the counter day and night.
Straight answer first
Artists need speed, uptime and the particulars of the trade — starting with high-resolution images with true colour, grouped the way you group the work — from a setup that never asks them to hire a webmaster to keep it running.
Hosting Seller's plans carry exactly that: LiteSpeed-cached NVMe hosting from a couple of dollars a month, with free SSL, a free move in, mailboxes on your domain and human support at any hour.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026
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A typical site in this trade is work grouped into series, a page about you, exhibition news and a small shop — and every one of those parts rests on something the hosting has to provide.
Here is the trade fact worth planning around: galleries and curators still expect an artist to keep a site of their own listing works, dimensions, media and availability. In the art trade a social feed does not count as a portfolio, and never has.
Ask anyone in the trade about their worst afternoon with a website and the story runs like this: a curator turning up nothing but an Instagram grid when what they wanted was an ordered portfolio with dimensions, media and what is still available. Everything on this page is written to stop that happening.
The hosting shopping list for artists
Written out straight, the needs read like this: high-resolution images with true colour, grouped the way you group the work, a shop selling originals and prints, with edition numbers and certificates, an exhibitions page that a gallery or a curator can cite and link to and a collectors' mailing list that hears about new work before anyone else.
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.
Why quick pages pay for themselves here
Visitors decide in seconds, usually on a phone, usually at the exact moment they were ready to act. A curator turning up nothing but an Instagram grid when what they wanted was an ordered portfolio with dimensions, media and what is still available — that is what slow hosting really costs, and it never appears as a line on any invoice.
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.
How the site actually gets built
The builds we watch succeed are put together with WordPress with a gallery theme, WooCommerce for prints and originals and a newsletter plugin for collectors — every one of them installable in a single click from the control panel, with no command line anywhere in sight.
Whichever route you take, the result stays yours. WordPress sites export and move freely, the domain is registered in your name, and nothing about the build ties you to us beyond the service being worth keeping.
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.
And when something does go wrong — it does eventually, everywhere — the difference is how fast you recover: one-click restores from the daily backup, and a person on the counter at 3am who treats your problem as the work rather than an interruption.
Why artists order from us
Nobody here expects you to be a server engineer — painters, illustrators and people working a printing press come to us so the site runs quietly while the real work gets done.
Bring an existing site and we shift it across at no charge — usually inside 24 hours, with nothing going dark while we work.
- 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
Quick where it counts
NVMe disks and LiteSpeed caching keep pages immediate on mobile — which is where painters, illustrators and people working a printing press get judged.
SSL on the tag, always
The padlock comes with every plan, issued and reissued automatically, and never rung up as an extra.
A price tag that stays put
Renewals are charged at the order price — no teaser rate waiting to bite you in year two.
Room on the shelf to grow
From a first site to serious traffic, upgrades apply in place — no migration and no fuss.
Backups nobody has to remember
A backup taken daily, with one-click restores that turn a bad afternoon into a ten-minute fix.
Mail that matches the sign
Mailboxes on your own domain are included — enquiries answered from an address that earns trust.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Choose the plan that fits
Most artists sit comfortably on our Launch or Pro plan — the first-year domain and the SSL are already on the tag, and moving up later is an account change rather than a move.
- 2
Install fresh, or hand us the old one
Install WordPress or the Website Builder in one click — or, if a site already lives somewhere else, our staff carry it across free of charge, usually within a day.
- 3
Point the domain, then launch
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
- Real people on the counter, every hour of every day
- WordPress Toolkit, with updates applied for you
- cPanel, the panel the rest of the trade already knows
- Staging copies so changes get tested before they go live
- SSH, Git and Composer on the plans built for developers
- A 30-day money-back guarantee on every hosting plan
- PHP versions picked per site from the panel
- A backup taken daily, with restores you run yourself
- LiteSpeed caching running at the server, not bolted on by plugin
- A domain free for year one when you order annually
Across the Counter
The questions we get asked most
Can the shop handle originals and open-edition prints side by side?
It can. WooCommerce treats an original as a single-item product that marks itself sold the moment it goes, while prints run as open runs or numbered editions with a stock count behind them. Certificates of authenticity ride along as attachments on the order email.
How do I stop the colours shifting once the work is on screen?
Export to sRGB, roughly 2000 pixels on the long edge. Wide-gamut files drift once a browser gets hold of them, which is where most of the trouble starts. Hosting hands over precisely the file you uploaded, so the export settings are what protect your colour.
Can I bring a domain I already own?
Yes, and transfers in are routine. Unlock the name at your present registrar, collect the auth code, then start the transfer from your client area. Whatever registration time is left comes across with it, and DNS keeps answering the whole way through.
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.
Does the price climb when the term is up?
No. What you pay to order is what you pay to renew, year after year. We do not run teaser rates, so there is no year-two ambush waiting in the calendar, and your bookkeeping can treat the hosting line as a fixed number.
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.
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