# Static Website Hosting UK Source: https://dijituldns.co.uk/static-website-hosting/ Updated: 2026-10-08 > dijitul hosts static websites in the UK, from hand-written HTML to sites built with Hugo, Jekyll, Eleventy or Astro. You get Cloudflare in front, free SSL, Git or SFTP deployment, daily backups, a domain renewal and UK support in one place. It's dijitul Complete Hosting at £1 a day + VAT, set up and managed for you. ## Key facts - Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, or the output of Hugo, Jekyll, Eleventy, Astro and similar - Deploy by SFTP, Plesk File Manager or Git - Cloudflare caching and DNS, set up and managed by us - Free SSL certificates and HTTP to HTTPS redirects - One domain registration or renewal included each year, with 10 POP3/IMAP email accounts on the same domain - Contact forms via a small PHP script if you need one - £1 a day + VAT ## Who static hosting suits A static site is just files: HTML, CSS, JavaScript and images. There's no database and nothing to log in to on the server, so it's fast, cheap to run and very hard to hack. It suits: - simple business sites that rarely change - old hand-coded HTML sites from the early web - developers using a static site generator such as Hugo, Jekyll, Eleventy or Astro - landing pages, microsites and documentation The trade-off is editing. Without a CMS, changing a page means editing a file or rebuilding with your generator. For a site that changes a few times a year, that's no hardship, and many businesses are happy to send us the odd text change rather than run a CMS they rarely log in to. If you'd rather edit pages yourself every week, [WordPress](https://dijituldns.co.uk/wordpress-hosting/) may suit you better, and it runs on the same plan. ## Free static hosts or dijitul? We'll be fair about this. If you're a developer happy to manage your own DNS, domain and email, free static hosting platforms work well for personal projects. Where dijitul fits is a business that wants all of it handled by one UK company: - the domain registered and renewed for you, with one renewal included each year - DNS managed in Cloudflare, with email records set up correctly so your mail gets delivered - 10 POP3/IMAP email accounts on your own domain, included, see [email hosting](https://dijituldns.co.uk/email-hosting/) - daily backups and a person to phone on 01623 650333 ## How you deploy - **SFTP or File Manager:** upload your files into the site folder. Ideal for hand-built sites. - **Git:** connect a repository in Plesk and deploy on push. If you use a generator, commit the built output folder, such as Hugo's public/ or Astro's dist/. - **We do it:** send us the files and we'll put them live. Rewrite rules can give you clean URLs without .html on the end, and custom 404 pages work as normal. ## Static sites that need a form The usual gap in a static site is the contact form. Because our servers run PHP, a small, secure form handler can sit alongside your HTML and send enquiries to your inbox, with a honeypot field to catch spam bots. No third-party form service or monthly fee required. ## Making a static site fast Static sites start fast, and a few settings keep them that way: - **Cloudflare caching:** images, CSS, fonts and JavaScript are served from Cloudflare's network, so the server is rarely touched. - **Compression:** text files are compressed on the way to the browser, cutting transfer size considerably. - **Cache headers:** long cache lifetimes for fingerprinted assets, such as the hashed filenames Astro and Hugo produce, with short lifetimes for HTML so updates show straight away. - **Modern images:** WebP or AVIF versions of large photos, sized to how they're displayed. After a deploy, we can purge the Cloudflare cache so visitors see changes immediately. If you deploy often, we'll set the rules so HTML is never stale. ## Old HTML sites Some of the oldest sites we host are static HTML from the early 2000s, built in Dreamweaver or FrontPage. They often run fine; the common problems are hard-coded http:// links causing mixed-content warnings once SSL is on, and server-side includes or FrontPage extensions that no longer exist. We fix those during the move. See [old website hosting](https://dijituldns.co.uk/old-website-hosting/) and [website migration](https://dijituldns.co.uk/website-migration/), or [order now](https://clients.dijitul.uk/order). ## FAQs ### Where can I host a simple HTML website in the UK? dijitul hosts plain HTML and static sites in the UK with Cloudflare, free SSL, daily backups and a domain renewal included, for £1 a day + VAT. Upload by SFTP or Git, or send us the files and we'll put them live. 10 email accounts on your domain are included too. ### Can I host a Hugo or Astro site with dijitul? Yes. Build the site locally or in your CI pipeline, then deploy the output folder, such as public/ or dist/, by Git or SFTP. Plesk serves it as static files and Cloudflare caches it. Server-rendered Astro needs Node.js, covered on our Node.js hosting page. ### Why pay for static hosting when there are free options? Free static hosts are fine if you manage your own domain, DNS and email. Paying makes sense when you want one UK company to handle the domain, DNS, email records, SSL, backups and support. dijitul includes all of these, plus a domain renewal, for £1 a day + VAT. ### How do I add a contact form to a static website? Either use a third-party form service or a small server-side script. On dijitul hosting, PHP is available, so a simple form handler can send submissions to your email with spam protection, without a monthly form subscription. ### My old HTML site shows 'Not secure'. How do I fix it? The site needs an SSL certificate and an HTTPS redirect, and any hard-coded http:// links to images or scripts must change to https:// or relative paths. dijitul installs free SSL, sets the redirect and fixes mixed-content links when we migrate the site. ## Pricing and ordering dijitul Complete Hosting is £1 a day + VAT (£365 a year + VAT). Order at https://clients.dijitul.uk/order?product=complete-hosting&ref=dijituldns&src=static-website-hosting or call 01623 650333.