How do I host a website I built with Claude on my own domain?

Claude doesn't host sites on your domain: an artifact lives on a claude.ai link, and Claude Code leaves a folder on your computer. Upload the folder or .zip to PageHub, or ask Claude to send it over MCP, and each .html file becomes an editable page in a draft site. Then attach your domain, add the DNS records PageHub gives you at your registrar, and SSL is issued automatically. The free plan includes 1 published site on your own domain.

How do I set up a custom domain and HTTPS for a Claude Code app?

If the app is plain HTML or builds to static files (npm run build), import the output folder into PageHub, attach your domain, and add the DNS records PageHub shows you at your registrar. SSL is issued automatically, usually within a few minutes. If the app needs a server, such as API routes or a database, PageHub won't run that code. Use a host that runs server code.

Can I publish a Claude artifact to my own domain?

Not from claude.ai itself. Connect PageHub as a custom connector in Claude and ask it to import the artifact. Claude sends the file straight from the chat. Or save the artifact's code as index.html and upload it in the dashboard.

Does PageHub keep all my pages?

Yes. Each .html file becomes its own page, and links between them keep working. The Free plan imports up to 5 pages per import, Pro up to 50, Business up to 200, and Agency up to 1,000.

Can I keep editing in Claude after I import?

Yes. With PageHub connected, Claude edits the same draft that the visual editor shows. Changes don't flow back to the files on your computer, and importing the folder again makes a new site rather than updating this one.

Can I send a Claude Design to PageHub?

PageHub isn't a Send to destination in Claude Design. Use Export, then Download as .zip, and upload the zip in the dashboard. If a page in the export is drawn entirely by JavaScript, the import tells you.

HTML import works on every plan. The free plan includes 1 published site on a domain you own, with SSL and no credit card. You buy the domain from a registrar, usually $10–20 a year. Pro is $7 a month per site.

Does the import use AI on my files?

No. The import is a fixed conversion with no AI. Your zip goes to private storage and is deleted when the import finishes.

Checked October 15, 2026

How to host a website you built with Claude

Claude gives you files, not a live site. Upload them to PageHub and every page opens in a visual editor, ready to publish on your own domain with HTTPS.

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The short answer

Claude doesn't host a site on your domain. An artifact lives on a claude.ai link, and Claude Code leaves a folder on your computer.
Static hosts such as Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, and GitHub Pages serve those files as they are. To change the site, you change the files.
PageHub imports the folder or .zip as an editable site instead: one page per .html file, images in your media library, and redirects from the old .html addresses.
Then attach your domain, add the DNS records at your registrar, and SSL is issued automatically. The free plan includes 1 published site on your own domain.

What Claude actually gives you

Claude makes the files. It doesn't give you a website on your own address.

Claude chat

An artifact: one HTML file. Publish it and you get a claude.ai link to share.

Claude Code

A project folder on your computer. Plain HTML, or an app (React, Vite) you build first.

Claude Design

A design you export: Download as .zip, or Export as standalone HTML.

To be a real site, those files still need:

Your own domain, with HTTPS on it
Forms that save what visitors send
A way to change a phone number without asking an AI or editing code
Old links that keep working when page addresses change

Ways to host it, side by side

Checked October 15, 2026. Prices are USD. Where a vendor only shows its yearly-billing price, that's the price listed.

Ways to host it, side by side, October 15, 2026
Builder	How the files get there	Your own domain + HTTPS	More than one page	Edit without code or AI	Forms	Cost to start
Leave it as a Claude artifact	Click Publish in claude.ai (Free, Pro and Max plans)	No. It stays a claude.ai link.	One artifact	No. Changes go back through Claude.	No	Free
Netlify Drop	Drag a folder to app.netlify.com/drop (unzip a .zip first)	Yes, with SSL, on the free plan	Yes, every file in the folder	No. You change the files and drop them again.	Yes: turn on form detection and add a netlify attribute to each form	Free plan, 300 credits a month
Cloudflare Pages	Drag a folder or .zip: up to 1,000 files, 25 MiB each	Yes, up to 100 per project on the free plan	Yes, every file in the upload	No. You change the files and upload again.	None built in	Free plan
Vercel	Drag files, a folder or a .zip to vercel.com/drop	Yes, up to 50 per project on Hobby	Yes	No. You change the code and deploy again.	None built in	Hobby is free, for personal, non-commercial use only
GitHub Pages	Push the files to a GitHub repository	Yes, with free HTTPS from Let's Encrypt	Yes	No. You change the files in the repo.	None. It serves static files only.	Free, but not for running an online business or store
Wix	Folder upload (3 MB a file, 20 MB total), Send to Wix from Claude Design, or Claude Code	Yes, on a paid Premium plan	Send to Wix deploys one page. More pages need a deploy from your project.	No. Wix's docs say there's no Wix editor for these sites.	Yes, Wix Forms, added by your coding agent	Free on a Wix address
PageHub	Drop a folder or .zip (up to 50 MB), or ask Claude to send it	Yes, with SSL. 1 published site on your own domain on the free plan.	Yes, one page per .html file. 5 pages per import on Free, 50 on Pro.	Yes, in the visual editor. Claude can keep editing too.	Yes, built in. 500 submissions a month on Free.	Free plan. Pro is $7 a month per site.

Leave it as a Claude artifact: Claude Help: share artifacts
Netlify Drop: Netlify Drop · Netlify pricing · Netlify Forms setup
Cloudflare Pages: Cloudflare: direct upload · Cloudflare Pages limits
Vercel: Vercel: Claude Design to Vercel Drop · Vercel Hobby plan
GitHub Pages: GitHub Pages limits · GitHub Pages HTTPS
Wix: Wix: host a site built with Claude · Wix: send a Claude Design to Wix · Wix: headless pricing
PageHub: PageHub pricing · PageHub import guide for agents

Three ways to get it onto PageHub

Each way makes a new draft site with one page per .html file. Nothing goes live until you publish. HTML import works on every plan: Free imports up to 5 pages, Pro up to 50.

1. Upload the folder in the dashboard

Open /start/import/html and sign in to PageHub (free, no credit card).
Drop the folder that holds your index.html, or a .zip of it, up to 50 MB.
Review the pages. Pick the home page and uncheck any you don't want.
Click Import. The site opens in the visual editor as a draft.

From Claude Design, use Export → Download as .zip and drop the zip. For an artifact, save its code as index.html and drop that.

2. Ask Claude Code to send it

Add PageHub to Claude Code once:

Terminal

claude mcp add --transport http PageHub https://pagehub.dev/api/mcp

Start Claude Code, type /mcp, pick PageHub, and sign in through the browser window that opens. Then, in your project folder:

Prompt

Import this site into PageHub as a new site. Follow https://pagehub.dev/skill.md.
If it's a React or Vite app, run the build first and import the output folder.
Give me the editor and preview links when it's ready. Don't publish yet.

Claude Code zips the folder, gets an upload link from import_site, uploads the zip, and checks get_import_status until the site is ready. The skill.md guide tells it how, including when to build first.

3. Import an artifact from a Claude chat

In Claude on the web or desktop, open Settings → Connectors, click Add custom connector, name it PageHub, and paste https://pagehub.dev/api/mcp. Click Connect and sign in. Then, in the chat that has your artifact:

Prompt

Import this artifact into PageHub as a new site called [site name].
Give me the editor link when it's ready. Don't publish yet.

Claude sends the files straight from the chat with import_site. This way takes text files up to 3 MB in total, which fits a typical artifact. Images linked from the web are copied into your site's media library.

Put it on your domain with HTTPS

Open the Domains page for your site in the dashboard, or ask Claude: “Connect [example.com] to this site and tell me the DNS records to add.”
Add the records where you bought the domain. The bare domain gets an A record at @, www gets a CNAME, and sometimes there's a TXT record to prove you own the domain. Copy each value exactly as PageHub shows it.
PageHub sets up example.com and www.example.com. SSL certificates are issued automatically and can take a few minutes once DNS is in place.
Publish. Connecting a domain doesn't publish the site, so click Publish in the editor or tell Claude “Publish the site.”

The free plan includes 1 published site on a domain you own. You buy the domain from a registrar, usually $10–20 a year.

What breaks when you host a Claude site

The page is blank because JavaScript draws it

A React or Vite project's source is an empty <div id="root"> until it's built. PageHub spots those pages and tells you to run npm run build and upload the output folder instead.

Links and images point at files that moved

Links between your pages are rewritten to the new page addresses, and images go into your media library. Anything linked but missing from the upload is listed, so you know what to add.

Tailwind styles vanish

Classes from the Tailwind CDN are kept, and PageHub compiles them itself. Colors and fonts from an inline tailwind.config become theme colors and fonts you can change in Design System.

Old .html addresses stop working

Each page gets a redirect from its old address, such as /about.html to /about, so shared links keep working on your domain.

The contact form goes nowhere

A form in your HTML becomes a PageHub form, so submissions are saved to your account instead of disappearing.

The header and footer are copied onto every page

When pages share the same header and footer, PageHub turns them into one shared header and footer. Edit the menu once.

Questions about hosting a Claude site

What people ask before they move a Claude-built site to their own domain.

Not on your own domain. A published artifact is a claude.ai link, and Claude Code writes files on your computer. To put the site on your domain, upload the files to a host. On PageHub, the upload becomes an editable site with hosting and SSL included.

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