Hosting, domains & sharing

“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.