Why pay anything at all
Free hosting isn't free. It's just somebody else's address.
Free tiers keep your work on their subdomain, under their branding, subject to a policy page you never read. A dollar a month ends that arrangement: your name on the door, your domain pointing at it, and a bill small enough that you'll forget it exists.
One number, and it stays that number
Ninety-nine cents a month, taken as $11.88 once a year. No metered bandwidth, no overage line appearing in month four, no call with anyone about a quote.
The cancel button is a button
It sits in your account settings, it works immediately, and nobody appears to ask whether you've considered staying. Leaving should be as easy as arriving.
Thirty days to change your mind
Ask for your money back inside the first month and it's yours. No form to fill in, no reason required, no discount offered to make you reconsider.
Some perspective
$11.88. For the year.
Not per month — per year. Here's the number sitting next to some things you've bought without thinking twice.
Your account
A control panel you can read in one glance
Every site you publish gets one row: where it lives, what it's doing, what it's using. There are no dashboards nested inside dashboards here, and no settings screen full of switches nobody has ever touched on purpose.
- Live, deploying, or suspended — legible without reading a word
- Attach or detach a custom domain from the same row
- One invoice a year, one line on it per site
Four ways in
Publish however you already work
Four routes to exactly the same result. Pick one, ignore the rest, change your mind on a Tuesday — none of them depends on any of the others.
Push, and it's up
Point us at a repository once. After that, every push to your chosen branch republishes the site. There's no build configuration to get wrong.
Drag the folder in
Export from whatever built your site, drop it into the browser, and it's live before you've closed the tab. No terminal, no account setup, no Git.
One command, done
Run npx lemonade deploy from the directory your files are in. Nothing to install first, and it prints the live URL when it finishes.
Or don't do it yourself
Connect our MCP server once and your AI assistant can publish on your behalf — useful, given it probably built the thing in the first place.
Built for how sites get made now
Hand the whole job to your assistant
An enormous number of small sites now get built inside a chat window — and then stall there, finished but homeless, because publishing them is somehow the hard part. Connect our MCP server once and that step disappears: your assistant creates the site, uploads the files, and hands you back a URL.
- Create sites, deploy updates, check status — all from the conversation
- Tokens are scoped to deploying, so nothing can touch your billing
- Sits alongside Git, zip and CLI rather than replacing any of them
A simulation — but line for line, this is what the real one prints.
What people put here
The sites that deserved better all along
Most of the web doesn't need a server thinking on its behalf. These are the sites that were always going to be a handful of files — and they've been overpaying, or living on a free subdomain, for years.
Why static wins
Fast because there's nothing in the way
A static site is just your files, handed straight to whoever asked for them. That one decision is what makes everything below possible — and it's why the bill is a dollar rather than nine.
Nothing to break into
Small sites almost always get compromised through a plugin, a login form, or a dependency nobody updated. None of those exist here. There's no admin panel to brute-force and no server-side code to exploit — just files.
Nothing to slow it down
No database to query, no page to render on demand, no waiting for something to wake up. Pages come out of Cloudflare's cache, from wherever is nearest to your visitor, at the speed a file moves.
Nothing to maintain
No versions to bump, no security patches to chase, no framework quietly going end-of-life while you're not looking. A site you publish this afternoon behaves identically in five years.
Nothing you're paying twice for
Most hosting bills include a runtime, a control panel and a support desk you'll never call. Strip those out and what's left is genuinely worth about a dollar. So that's what we charge.
Side by side
What a dollar actually buys
The free options put you on their subdomain. The powerful ones are built for engineering teams and priced accordingly. We sit in the gap: a real address, a real domain, and none of the machinery you were never going to use.
| Lemonade Host | GoDaddy | Wix | Squarespace | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price a month | 99¢ | ~$6–12 | ~$17–29 | ~$16–25 |
| Price after renewal | 99¢ — unchanged | Often 2–3× higher | Same | Same |
| A year, all in | $11.88 | ~$150+ | ~$250+ | ~$220+ |
| Custom domain | +99¢ | Included / add-on | Included | Included |
| SSL & backups | Included | Often paid add-ons | Included | Included |
| Your files are portable | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| AI assistant can deploy | Yes | No | No | No |
Competitor pricing is approximate and changes often — check their current rates before deciding. The figures above use advertised entry pricing; several of these renew substantially higher after the first term, which is the number worth comparing.
Your site, live, for less than a coffee a year… almost.
$11.88 for twelve months of hosting. The list is free, and it's where early access invites go first.
Pricing
One plan, one add-on, no asterisks
Each site you publish becomes its own line on a single invoice — so three sites is three lines and one charge, not three separate subscriptions cluttering up your statement.
- One site, 1 GB of storage
- 250 GB of traffic a month
- Free subdomain on lemonadehost.com
- SSL included, renewed automatically
- Deploy by Git, zip, CLI, or AI assistant
- Daily backups, kept 7 days
- No databases or server-side code
- Point your own domain at your site
- SSL certificate included and renewed
- Step-by-step DNS instructions
- Add or remove it whenever you like
- Exactly the same site and limits
- Yearly is cheapest because it's one payment instead of twelve
- Switch between them whenever
No mid-term price increases.* *Terms and conditions apply — see our terms of service.
Templates
Your template library
Six previews are ready to look at; publishing one as your own starter comes with launch.
Start from something
Templates, ready to make your own
Demo templates, not customer sites — we're pre-launch, so there's nothing real to show yet. Each one publishes as-is and edits like any other static site: open the files, change the words, keep the layout.
Getting started
Three steps, about five minutes
Assuming your files already exist, most of this is waiting for DNS.
Choose an interval and pay
Yearly works out to 99¢ a month and is the one we'd pick. Paying up front is also what keeps this place free of phishing pages.
Send us the files
Connect a repository, drag in a zip, run the CLI, or ask your assistant to handle it. All four land in exactly the same place.
You're online
The site is live on your free subdomain within seconds, SSL and all. Point a domain of your own at it whenever you feel like it.
Building in public
What's live, what's next
We publish the plan and let you watch it happen — it keeps us honest and it means no surprises about what your dollar buys next.
Core hosting
LiveStatic hosting, free subdomains, SSL, and the deploy pipeline behind all four publish routes.
MCP server & CLI
LiveThe agent-first tooling — deploy from a conversation or a single terminal command.
Template gallery
Previews readyPublishable starting points: portfolio, brochure, résumé, link page. Yours to edit.
Database add-on
PlannedA small SQLite database for sites that outgrow static — planned as an add-on, price not set yet.
Questions
Curious about the details?
The FAQ covers everything — limits, domains, billing, cancellations — in plain sentences.
Run like a lemonade stand, on purpose
Lemonade Host is a small operation with a simple idea: most websites are a folder of files, and a folder of files shouldn't cost nine dollars a month. So we do one thing — static hosting — do it carefully, and charge what it's actually worth.
No venture funding to burn, no growth team, no plan to become a platform. Just hosting, priced like lemonade.
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