Keep Your Site Live for $12 a Month
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What $12 a month covers
Your free build is live the moment it's ready, on a siteharbor.app address. To keep it live past the first seven days, the Keep plan is $12/mo. That covers everything it takes to keep a real website online:
- Hosting — your site runs on AWS, the same infrastructure behind Netflix and Airbnb.
- SSL / HTTPS — automatic, included, auto-renewing. No "your connection is not secure" warnings, ever.
- Global CDN — sub-100ms load times for most US visitors.
- Uptime monitoring — we watch your site 24/7 and alert you if anything happens.
What it doesn't include yet
The $12 plan keeps your site live on its siteharbor.app address with a small badge. It does not publish your site for good — that's the Published step ($299, once), which drops the badge, gets you found on Google, connects your own domain, and sets up free branded email.
You can move up to your own domain whenever you're ready. There's no rush and no penalty for staying on the $12 plan as long as you like.
"Is $12 forever a trap?"
No. It's cancel-anytime — one click in your dashboard stops the billing, and you can download a full copy of your site first. We bill monthly on purpose: we have to keep earning your $12 each month. If we stop earning it, you walk, and your files come with you.
AWS costs, at cost
The $12/mo is a $10/mo base plus AWS bandwidth and storage passed through at AWS's price — usually a dollar or two a month for a small business site, so most sites land around $12/mo. We never mark it up, and every invoice shows the line items.