Billing
What 99¢ a month covers
99¢ a month, per site, paid for a year at a time — $11.88. Or $2.99 a month if you would rather pay month to month.
Nothing is charged until you publish a site.
What is included
| Storage | 1 GB per site |
| Address | yourname.lemonhosted.com, free, forever |
| HTTPS | Included on every address the site answers on, renewed for you |
| Publishing | As often as you like |
| Versions | Every published version for 7 days, restorable in one click |
| The editor | Unlimited changes, unlimited pages |
| Visitors | We do not meter or bill for them |
What costs extra
Both optional. Neither is switched on by accident.
| Your own domain | 99¢ a month, and only once it is live |
| Forms | From 99¢ a month |
| Bookings | $2.99 a month |
| Shop | $3.99 a month |
Add-ons ride the same schedule as the site they belong to, so a yearly site's domain is billed yearly.
Yearly or monthly
Both are the same product. Yearly is $11.88 for twelve months; monthly is $2.99 a month, which is $35.88 over a year.
Each site chooses its own — a yearly site and a monthly site on the same account are fine, and you get one bill per schedule rather than one per site.
About the limits
Storage is 1 GB per site and it is genuinely enforced. That is a large amount for a website: several hundred pages and a few hundred photographs. If an upload would take you over it, we refuse the upload rather than quietly charging you.
Visitors are not metered. Nothing in this product counts your traffic, and there is no per-visitor charge and no overage bill. The fair-use figure published on our pricing page exists so that "unlimited" is not a lie — if a site were ever genuinely straining the machine, you would get an email from a person, not a switched-off site and an invoice.
What we never do
- No setup fee.
- No charge for HTTPS.
- No charge to publish, or to publish again.
- No price rise on a site you already have: if the price of hosting goes up, it goes up for new sites. Yours renews at what you were quoted, and Billing shows that figure.
Seeing what you pay
Billing shows every site, what it costs, which schedule it is on, when it renews, and every receipt. If a site is due to stop renewing, it says so there in amber with the date.
The same numbers, laid out for somebody who has not signed up yet, are on the pricing page.