A page of your own,
at an address worth saying out loud

The details

What exactly am I paying for?

Two things: the page builder, and a short address of your own. A link page, meaning your picture, your links and your colours, is free and stays free.

Do I need to know how to build a website?

No. You add blocks such as a heading, some text, a picture or a row of buttons, and arrange them. There is nothing to install and no code to write.

What if I would rather write it myself?

Then do. On a subdomain of your own you can upload a whole website: your HTML, your CSS, your JavaScript, your images, exactly as you wrote them. Pick the folder your site is in, with an index.html at the top of it, and everything inside comes with it. The block builder stays there if you want to go back to it.

Only on a subdomain, and that is a browser rule rather than a price. A subdomain is its own origin, which is what keeps one person's code from reaching another's. The shorter path addresses share an origin with everyone else's page, so they stay on the builder.

How does paying work, and does it renew by itself?

No, not unless you ask it to. The normal way to buy is a one-off payment, a month or a year at a time, by card or PayPal, no account needed. When it runs out it simply runs out, and I email you before it does. There is also an optional subscription if you would rather it renewed automatically; that one does need a PayPal account, because PayPal does not allow card-only recurring payments.

What happens when it runs out, or if I cancel?

Your links page carries on at the free address, with your photo, your links and your colours. Anything you built with the page builder is kept, not deleted. It stops being shown, and comes straight back the moment you buy more time. Buying early does not waste anything either: the days you have left are added to, not replaced.

What happens if a subscription payment fails?

Nothing immediately. PayPal retries for several days and your page keeps working throughout, plus a few days after. An expired card is not a reason to take somebody's page down. This does not apply to one-off payments, which have nothing to fail.

Does $11 a month buy me a domain?

No, and it would be a bad deal if it did. A domain name costs around $12 a year from a registrar, and you should buy it yourself so it stays in your name. The $11 is for putting your page on it and keeping it running: the hosting, the security certificate, and the renewals.

So when is that actually worth it?

When the address matters. yourbakery.com on a card, a van or an invoice reads as a business; yourbakery.javihost.com reads as a page on somebody else's service. If you are handing the address to customers, that difference is the whole point. If you are dropping a link in a bio, it is not worth paying for. The plan in the middle is the better buy.

What if I already have a domain?

Then you are ready. You change one setting at your registrar to point it here, and the certificate is handled for you. Nothing about your email or anything else already on that domain is affected.

What happens to my domain if I stop paying?

It stays yours. You bought it and it is registered in your name. You point it somewhere else and carry on. That is exactly why you should buy it rather than have me buy it for you.

Who can see my page?

Nobody until you publish it. Unpublished, the address returns nothing at all.