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They start the day your website goes live. Months 1 to 3 cost nothing; months 4 to 12 are billed at your plan's monthly price, from US$18.99/month. The free months come with monthly billing. On yearly billing you pay the yearly price on the day your website goes live, which already works out at ten months for twelve. Any plan on our WordPress hosting comparison page qualifies, and they all run static websites. A plan with room for several websites still includes one free website.

Your hosting commitment runs for twelve months from the day your website goes live. If you cancel earlier, the months left up to month twelve become due at once, and your website stays online until the end of month twelve.

One static website of up to five pages with basic functionality: pages about your business and services, photo galleries, a contact page, a map and links to your social accounts. One free website per customer, for your own business.

Yes, but not for free. Online shops, payments, bookings, member logins and anything else that has to be programmed take far more development time than a static site, so we treat them as custom development. The same goes for more than five pages. Tell us what you need and we give you a price before any work starts.

One batch of changes to the design we agreed on: wording, photos, colours, the order of sections and similar adjustments. We make the changes and you check them. That is one round, and up to five rounds are free. Starting over with a different design is a new project, and we quote it first.

Seven days from the day we tell you a round is ready. If we have not heard from you by then, the round is closed and counts as one of the five. If we hear nothing for thirty days, we close the project; ask us and we reopen it. A website you have not approved stays on its private preview address and is never published. A website you have already approved stays live while your hosting plan is active.

The free rounds end when you approve the site or when the fifth round is finished, whichever comes first. Changes after that are development work, and we give you a price before we start.

Once all twelve months of your hosting commitment are paid. You can pay the remaining months early at any time to get them sooner. Until then you review the site on its private preview address, and after launch on your live address.

The files are yours to take once all twelve months of your hosting commitment are paid, but parts of the site rely on HostBarrel services and stop working on another host. The twelve-month minimum on the hosting plan still applies.

Your logo, and the text and photos you want to use if you have them. You can upload them with your request as PDF, JPG, PNG or WebP files. If you have no text or photos, we write the text from what you tell us and create the images, at no charge, and you check them in the revision rounds. You confirm that you have the right to use everything you send us.

Yes, your website needs one. If you do not have a logo, add our Starter Logo package for US$149, paid once. You get two first ideas, up to two rounds of changes on the one you choose, and the final files as SVG, PDF and transparent PNG. Logo changes have their own allowance and end when you approve the logo; further rounds cost US$25 each, and we ask you first. Detailed illustrations and full branding are quoted separately.

That depends on how quickly we receive your text, photos and feedback, and on how many projects are ahead of yours. We agree a target date with you at the start. It is a target, not a guarantee.

Yes. You can use a domain you already own, or buy one through us whenever you are ready. Domain fees are separate from the free website. Until you have one, your website is reachable on a free HostBarrel address, so you can see it, approve it and share it.