Hosting, domains & sharing

You built something in v0, Bolt, or Lovable and now you want a real URL. Here's the one thing that decides whether you can upload it as-is, or need to run a build first.

A 17-page PDF and three spreadsheets is a lot to hand a client every quarter. A one-page summary, locked behind a password, gets the actual takeaways in front of them instead.

For a small project, a status page can do what a whole meeting is for: what's done, what's next, and what still needs a decision from the client.

Most proposals still go out as final_v3_revised.pdf. A small private webpage opens better on a phone, updates in place, and ends with a way to actually say yes.

A long WhatsApp message can turn into ten half-written ones before the actual point gets lost. A small private page gives an apology the space a text message doesn't.

Date, venue, schedule, registry, and a way for guests to actually reply. A wedding page needs about five things, and none of them require a wedding-website subscription.

A few photos and a message, put on a page instead of a group chat. Published as a microsite, it won't turn up in a search months later.

A card says one thing once. A page can hold a whole timeline, kept private and password-protected until the actual day.

You don't need a web developer for this. A menu, your hours, your location, and a WhatsApp button for orders, that's the whole page.

A printed sign only reaches people already at your door. A page reaches anyone checking before they leave the house, and it takes minutes to put up.

“Custom domain” shows up everywhere from registrar ads to hosting dashboards, and it means something slightly different in each place. Here's the plain-language answer, and the exact two steps that get one working on your site.

Claude can publish an Artifact itself. Here's how to export one when you want an independently hosted URL and MakeMySiteLive's site controls.

Your AI coding tool already built the site. Here's how to get it from a local folder to a real, public URL without leaving the terminal.

ChatGPT wrote you a block of HTML in the chat. Here's the fastest way to turn that into an actual public webpage.

AI tools increasingly generate presentations as HTML instead of a .pptx file. Here's why that's worth keeping as a webpage, and how to give it a link instead of an attachment.

An AI-built practice quiz that grades itself in the browser doesn't need a server or a database. Here's how to publish one, and where a static site stops being the right tool.

A Pro full site doesn't have to be public the moment it's live. Here's how to lock it behind a password while you're still building, and when to take the lock off.

A bad full-site upload doesn't have to mean panic. Here's how retained version history and one-click rollback work, including the Free and Pro limits.

“Custom domain” bundles two separate costs: the domain name itself and connecting it to hosting. Here's what's free, what isn't, and how to tell the difference before you pay for anything.

You connected your domain and expected the padlock, but instead got a security warning, a timeout, or someone else's old site. Here's how to work through the handful of things that cause this, in order of likelihood.

You've got one HTML file and just need a link to send, not a hosting setup. Here's how five common options (Drive, GitHub Pages, CodePen, email, and microsites) compare on the one thing that matters: does it work as a real live link.

A static portfolio or landing page shouldn't cost what a dynamic app costs. Here's what drives the price of static hosting in India, what's free, and what to watch out for in shared hosting and usage-based pricing.

Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Tiiny.host, Render, MakeMySiteLive: a fair, feature-by-feature look at what each free tier includes, so you pick based on what you need instead of the first result.

Claude, v0, Lovable, Bolt, or ChatGPT gave you a working website. It's still just sitting in a chat window or a local folder. Here's how to turn that into a real, public URL — with or without a custom domain.