Static hosting plans and billing

Static hosting is billed separately from domain registrations and domain renewals. Domains are usually one-time yearly registry actions. Paid hosting plans are subscriptions with monthly or yearly billing intervals.

Plan overview

For exact storage, site, custom-domain, and build-minute limits, see Platform limits.

Monthly and yearly billing

The hosting pricing page lets you choose a monthly or yearly billing interval before adding a paid plan to the cart. The selected interval is stored on the static hosting cart item and becomes the subscription billing interval after payment.

When a subscription is created:

• monthly plans set the current period end roughly one month ahead
• yearly plans set the current period end roughly one year ahead
• the subscription becomes active after the paid order is processed

Buy a paid plan

Manage your current plan

Open Account > Website hosting. The plan badge at the top of the page opens plan management. Depending on your current plan and state, you can review usage, upgrade, downgrade, cancel, or renew an expired plan.

The management dialog shows:

• current plan
• current site usage
• current custom-domain usage
• billing interval
• current period end
• any scheduled downgrade
• cancellation notice if cancellation is already scheduled

Upgrades

Upgrades move you from Starter to Business.

When you upgrade:

1. YWT calculates the remaining days in the current billing period.
2. YWT creates a prorated upgrade order for the price difference.
3. You pay the order through checkout.
4. After payment, the higher plan is applied immediately.
5. The current period end stays the same.

If a scheduled downgrade exists, a successful upgrade clears that scheduled change.

Downgrades

Downgrades move you from Business to Starter.

Downgrades are scheduled for the end of the current billing period. You keep Business access until that date. Before scheduling the downgrade, YWT validates your current usage against the target plan.

You must reduce usage first if the target plan would be exceeded. For example:

• delete excess sites before moving to a plan with fewer allowed sites
• remove excess custom domains before moving to a plan with fewer allowed custom domains

If the downgrade is scheduled and you change your mind, you can cancel the scheduled change before it takes effect.

Cancel a subscription

Cancellation is scheduled for the end of the current billing period. The subscription remains usable until the period ends, then it stops renewing.

Cancelling the subscription does not automatically delete your static sites. However, once the paid plan is no longer active, paid-only capabilities such as public publishing and custom domains are no longer available under the Free plan limits.

Expired subscriptions

If a static hosting subscription expires, YWT can create a renewal order from the expired-plan dialog. Complete that order to renew the plan for the same billing interval.

Orders and invoices

Hosting plan purchases, renewals, and paid upgrades create orders. You can review them under Account > Orders and download invoices when an invoice number is available.

For invoice downloads and business receipt notes, see Orders.

Next steps

• Compare platform limits.
• Create a site.
• Connect a custom domain.
• Contact support if your usage does not fit the published plans.