Getting started
How Lemonade Host works
A website of your own, at your own address, for 99¢ a month a site. This page is the whole shape of it — five minutes now saves a lot of clicking later.
The four steps
- Pick a design. A ready-made site — a shop, a café, a portfolio, a one-page brochure — with real pages and real pictures already in it.
- Make it yours. Change the words and swap the pictures in the editor, in your browser. Nothing is charged while you do this, and nobody can see it yet.
- Publish. This is the moment you pay. Your site goes live at its address.
- Share it. Give people the address, or point a domain you already own at it.
Already have a website built? You can skip straight to publishing files you already have.
What "a site" means here
One site is one website: its own address, its own pages, its own bill. You can have several — they are separate, and each one is 99¢ a month.
Your site's free address looks like this:
yourname.lemonhosted.comIt works the moment you publish, it is included, and it has a padlock (HTTPS) on it. If you own a domain — yourbakery.com — you can point it here for 99¢ a month more. See Point your own domain at your site.
What is included
| Storage | 1 GB per site — enough for hundreds of pages and photographs |
| Address | A free .lemonhosted.com address, with HTTPS |
| Certificate | Included and renewed for you, on every address the site answers on |
| Versions | Every published version for the last 7 days, restorable in one click |
| Editing | The browser editor, unlimited changes |
What this is not
Honest limits, stated early, because finding out later is worse.
- No server-side code. No PHP, no WordPress plugins, no Python. Your site is pages, pictures and styling that a browser reads directly.
- No database of your own.
- No email accounts. We do not host mailboxes at your domain.
What a site here can do beyond plain pages is done by apps: a contact form that reaches your inbox, a diary people can ask for a time in, and a shop that takes money into your own Stripe account.
If you can describe the finished thing as a folder of pages rather than a program, it fits here — and that covers most small business sites, portfolios, menus, event pages and brochures.
The parts of the portal
- Home — anything that needs you, and your sites.
- Sites — all of them. Open one to edit it, see its address, or change its settings.
- Designs — the gallery, if you want to start another site or change one's look.
- Domains — the domains you have connected.
- Billing — what you pay, when, and every receipt.
When something goes wrong
Nothing in this product deletes anything quietly.
- A publish that is refused changes nothing — your live site keeps serving.
- A deleted site sits in the trash for 30 days and you can put it back yourself.
- Stopping a renewal keeps the site up until the date you have already paid for.
And when you are stuck, email a person. Tell us what you were trying to do and what happened instead — that is genuinely all we need.
When you are ready to start, browse the designs and pick one.