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A Neocities alternative with custom domains

Neocities is a lovely home for hand-made websites. People usually look elsewhere for one of four reasons: their own domain, uploading with an FTP program, a contact form, or sharing a header across pages.

What changes on Pagehaus

• Your own domain from $4/month, with HTTPS set up automatically. On Neocities, custom domains come with the $5/month Supporter plan.
• SFTP uploads with FileZilla, Cyberduck or WinSCP, plus the browser. Neocities offers its editor and a command-line tool, and WebDAV on Supporter.
• Contact forms that email you, with no code. Neocities serves static files only.
• Server Side Includes: write your menu once in /includes/header.html and include it on every page with <!--#include virtual="/includes/header.html" -->.

What you'd give up

• The community: following sites, site profiles and tags are part of what makes Neocities special. Pagehaus is just hosting.
• Room: Neocities Supporter gives 50 GB of storage and 3,000 GB of traffic for $5/month; Pagehaus Personal gives 5 GB and 200 GB for $4/month (Pro: 25 GB and 1 TB for $10).
• A worldwide CDN: Neocities serves sites from a global network; Pagehaus serves from one server in the EU.

Moving a Neocities site

1. In Neocities, download a copy of your site with its one-click backup.
2. Create a Pagehaus site, open its files and use Upload zip.
3. On a paid plan, add your domain under Domains and update its DNS as shown.

See the full side-by-side in Pagehaus vs Neocities.