---
title: "Hosting"
summary: "Websites and web apps, built by hand, from free to bespoke."
date: 2026-10-29
by: "Axel, https://aesv.io"
links:
  - "https://hosting.aesv.io/cool-sites"
---

I build websites and web applications, each one made for you. The tools are good enough now that one person can build what used to take a team.

## Four kinds of site

### Starter site: free, for select people

For people with something to share. It goes on a free host in your name, like GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages or Netlify, so my only cost is building and designing. Who I do it for is my call, and it is subjective. I leave a small maker's mark on it. [Cool sites for cool people](https://hosting.aesv.io/cool-sites)

### Small static site: $500

A site for your business or your work. Hosting is $10 to $15 a month, billed annually, with up to four small edits a year.

### Site with a portal, CMS and database: from $2,500

You edit your own pages, people sign in, and your data lives in a database. It runs on my own server. Quoted, from $2,500, then $50 to $100 a month.

### Bespoke web application: from $5,000

Complex architecture and features, built for one job. Quoted, from $5,000.

## How it works

1. Tell me what you need below.
2. I answer with a price and a one-page contract.
3. I build it.

## Start

```sh
curl https://hosting.aesv.io/start -d name='Your business' -d contact=you@example.com -d site=example.com -d tier=static -d note='One line'
```

tier is starter, static, portal, bespoke or unsure.

## Every paid site

- Your domain, registered in your name. I keep the DNS.
- Email on Google Workspace, owned by you, paid to Google directly. Setting it up is part of the build.
- Nightly backups.
- If this ever ends, you walk away whole with a zip of your site.
- No formal SLA. Best effort.

## Work

Case studies go here once they are live.