Getting your business online
You could build it yourself.
Three ways to put your business online, and an honest look at what each one really costs you.
The honest version
There are three ways to do this.
There’s a version of this where you don’t need us at all. The tools are out there. Describe what you want and something gets built — a page people can find you on, a way to book you, a place to collect what your customers think. You’re capable. You could figure it out.
So let’s be fair about it. There are really three ways to put your business online, and building it yourself is only the first. You can build it yourself — cheapest on paper, paid for in time and upkeep. You can hire someone — the custom route, and the priciest, though the finished thing still lands back in your hands. Or you can hand it to a service that runs it for you — the least effort, at a fixed price you can plan around. Every honest comparison of the three comes down to the same question, and it isn’t “which looks best.” It’s who’s responsible for it a year from now.
The question was never “which looks best.” It’s who’s responsible for it a year from now.
Build it yourself
Then it’s yours — all of it.
Say you build it. Now it’s yours — not just the fun part, the whole thing. It’s yours when it breaks on a Tuesday night, right before a client’s about to book. Yours to keep safe when someone tries the door. Yours to fix, update, and worry about, forever, on top of the actual work you set out to do. Building it once is easy now. Keeping it alive is the job — and the job doesn’t end. We did the honest math on the “just use free tools” version of this in one paid tool vs. five free ones.
The other routes
Hire it out — or maybe don’t build at all.
Say you hire it out instead. You’ll likely get something genuinely well-made — a real designer, real craft, a look that’s yours. That’s the strength of the route, and we won’t pretend otherwise. What the invoice rarely mentions is that the moment the work is delivered, the upkeep is yours again: the small change, the thing that stops working after an update, the “can you just…” that turns into another quote. What each route actually runs you — do-it-yourself, freelance, and agency — we put real numbers on in how much a small business website really costs.
And there’s a quieter question underneath all of it — whether you need the biggest version at all. Plenty of solo businesses build or commission a full website and use a fraction of it, when what a prospect actually needs is one clear place that shows who they are and how to reach them. If that sounds like you, we walked through the options in link in bio, or a website?
The path we handle
We run it, so you don’t have to.
Here’s the path we handle: we run it. All of it. Your pages stay up, stay fast, and stay handled — not because you’re watching them, but because we are. When something needs fixing, you don’t hear about it, because it’s already done. You get the thing you wanted and none of the weight that usually comes attached.
And it doesn’t sit still. The parts you’re using keep getting better on their own — sharper, smoother, more capable — and you don’t lift a finger to make that happen. You wake up and it’s just nicer than it was. Nothing to install, nothing to decide.
The point
You didn’t start this to run software.
Because you didn’t start what you started to become the person who maintains software. You started it to do the thing you’re good at — the thing only you do. Every hour spent keeping the lights on is an hour taken from that.
So no, you don’t have to build it yourself. That’s the whole point of us. You, Host’d is your whole presence, handled — the way people find you, book you, reach you, and talk about you, all in one place, all running quietly in the background. See how it works, or see it for yourself — free for 14 days. You bring the business. We host the rest.