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What hosting really costs — and why ours is ₴0

4 August 20265 min read

People pay ₴100–300 a month for hosting out of habit. Here is what that money actually buys, and when it buys nothing at all.

In short

A static site costs ₴0 a month. The pages are built in advance, so the server has nothing to compute — it just hands over ready files. WordPress does need hosting, and that is from ₴1,200 a year.

The only thing left to pay for is the domain — about ₴300 a year, billed to you directly by the registrar with nothing added by us.

What you pay for in ordinary hosting

Classic hosting is a rented slice of a server standing by around the clock. It holds a database, runs code every time a page opens, and keeps the system patched. A WordPress site genuinely needs all of that: every page is assembled from scratch the moment someone opens it.

Why a static site does not need it

If the pages are built in advance, the server has nothing to compute — it just hands over finished files. Content delivery networks do that, and the big ones do it for free: Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, GitHub Pages. The free tiers cover a small business site many times over.

Zero a month is not a promotion or a trial. It is simply a different technology, one with nothing to charge for.

What still costs money

The domain — about ₴300 a year for .com, a little more for .ua. Email on your own domain — from nothing to a few dollars a month. That is all, and those invoices come to you from the registrar directly, not from us with a margin on top.

When free hosting does not fit

If you need user accounts, a catalogue of thousands of items filtered from a database, or payments taken on the site, you need a server, and ₴100–300 a month is a fair price for it. Most service websites simply do not need it and pay anyway.

The test is simple: if nothing on your site changes without you, you are renting an empty room.

What hosting costs per year

Kind of siteHosting per yearWhat else is paid
Static site (ours)₴0Domain ~₴300/year
WordPress sitefrom ₴1,200Domain + updates or support
Shop or client area₴1,200 – 3,600Domain, updates, sometimes a server

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Hosting depends on what the site is built with. If you need an editing panel, we costed it here.

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