Artist Hosting
Web Hosting for Artists Who Want a Gallery Up Front and a Store in Back
Show paintings and mixed-media work at full clarity, then sell originals or prints straight from your own site instead of a marketplace taking a cut.
NVMe
Storage for high-res artwork scans
Free
SSL for secure art sales
Free
Migration from your current site
30-day
Money-back guarantee
In short
Web hosting for artists has to do two jobs at once: display high-resolution artwork clearly enough that color and texture come through, and run a secure store for selling originals or prints without routing sales through a third-party marketplace. Hosting Cheap combines NVMe SSD and LiteSpeed caching for fast-loading galleries, free auto-renewing SSL for secure checkout, and 1-click WordPress plus WooCommerce installs — from $2.09/mo.
Daily backups protect both your image library and your order history, so a technical hiccup never means losing a sale record or a gallery you spent hours curating.
For most artists, a website has to work harder than a simple portfolio: it's a gallery, a sales channel and a piece of your brand all at once. That means high-resolution scans or photographs of paintings, sculpture and mixed-media pieces that need to render with accurate color and enough detail for a buyer to trust what they're purchasing, sitting right alongside checkout pages for prints or original works. A slow host undermines both halves — a gallery that lags loses browsers before they scroll, and a checkout that feels unsafe loses buyers before they pay.
Hosting Cheap is built to carry that combination without forcing a compromise. NVMe SSD storage and LiteSpeed caching keep image-heavy gallery pages fast, free SSL secures every checkout and contact form, and 1-click installers for WordPress and WooCommerce mean the gallery-plus-store setup most artists want is a configuration choice, not a development project.
A Gallery That Does Your Work Justice
Color accuracy and fine detail are the whole point of showing artwork online, which means galleries need to hold high-resolution images without the site slowing to a crawl. NVMe SSD storage gives you room for full-resolution scans and photographs of each piece, and LiteSpeed caching keeps gallery pages loading quickly even as your catalog of past and current work grows.
That matters especially for artists working in mediums where texture and brushwork are part of the value — a flat, over-compressed thumbnail undersells a piece in a way a well-rendered, zoomable image doesn't.
Turning Browsers Into Buyers
Selling originals or limited prints directly means adding a store to the gallery — typically WooCommerce on top of WordPress — so browsers can move from viewing a piece to buying it without leaving your site or handing a percentage to a marketplace. Free SSL on every domain secures that checkout flow end to end, which matters even more when a single transaction might be a high-value original rather than a small print.
Because the store and gallery run on the same hosting, product pages showing a painting at full resolution load with the same NVMe-backed speed as the rest of the site.
Protecting Your Work Online
Many artists add watermarking plugins or scripts that disable right-click saving and drag-to-copy on gallery images, both of which add extra processing to every page load. Fast underlying infrastructure means those protections don't come at the cost of a sluggish gallery — the extra script overhead barely registers against LiteSpeed caching and NVMe storage.
It's worth remembering protection tools deter casual copying but aren't a substitute for lower-resolution web versions of especially valuable pieces; the hosting handles the performance side, the resolution choices are still yours to make.
Running the Business Side
Once a gallery becomes a store, the site is also holding order records, customer emails and payment confirmations — data you don't want to lose to a bad plugin update or an accidental deletion. Daily backups mean there's always a recent restore point covering both your artwork library and your sales history.
24/7 human support also matters more once real money is moving through the site: if checkout breaks during a promotion or a show announcement drives a traffic spike, help is available around the clock rather than during business hours only.
A Gallery and a Store, Running on the Same Fast Hosting
Artists shouldn't have to choose between a beautiful gallery and a working store, or host them on two different platforms that don't talk to each other.
Hosting Cheap runs both on the same NVMe-backed, LiteSpeed-cached infrastructure, with 1-click WordPress and WooCommerce installs so the gallery-plus-shop setup takes an afternoon, not a development sprint.
- NVMe storage for full-resolution artwork scans and photographs
- 1-click WordPress and WooCommerce installs for a gallery-plus-store site
- Free SSL securing checkout for originals and print sales
- Daily backups protecting both your image library and order history
Why Hosting Cheap
What you get
Gallery-grade image quality
NVMe storage and LiteSpeed caching keep high-resolution artwork loading quickly.
Built-in store option
1-click WooCommerce installs let you sell originals and prints straight from your site.
Free SSL for secure checkout
Every domain gets an auto-renewing certificate that keeps art sales secure.
Daily backups
Your image library and order history are protected with a restore point every day.
Free migration
Move an existing gallery or shop over without re-uploading your catalog.
24/7 human support
Real help available any time, including during a show launch or sale.
How It Works
Get set up in a few steps
Choose a plan with store support
Pick a hosting plan sized for a gallery plus a WooCommerce store.
Install WordPress and WooCommerce
Use the 1-click installers to set up your gallery and shop together.
Upload artwork and open sales
Add high-resolution images, price your originals and prints, and start selling.
Included
Everything you need, on every plan
- Storage sized for high-resolution artwork scans
- LiteSpeed caching for image-heavy gallery pages
- 1-click WordPress and WooCommerce installs
- Free auto-renewing SSL for secure checkout
- Watermarking and image-protection plugin support
- Daily backups covering your catalog and orders
- Free migration from your current gallery or shop
- 24/7 human support during sales and shows
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Can I sell both original artwork and prints from the same site?
Yes, WooCommerce on WordPress supports different product types, so originals, limited editions and open prints can all be listed with their own pricing and inventory on one site.
Will watermarking my images slow down the gallery?
Not noticeably. LiteSpeed caching and NVMe storage handle the extra script overhead from watermarking or copy-protection plugins well within normal page-load times.
How do I keep my checkout secure for higher-value sales?
Every domain includes free auto-renewing SSL, which encrypts checkout and payment pages by default, whether a sale is a small print or a higher-value original.
Can I move my existing art store or gallery over?
Yes, free managed migration moves your current site, including your image catalog and store data, without you rebuilding pages from scratch.
How much storage do I need for high-resolution scans?
It depends on your catalog size, but plans are sized with full-resolution image libraries in mind, and you can move up a tier as your body of work grows.
Do I need a developer to set up a gallery-plus-store site?
No, 1-click installers for WordPress and WooCommerce, along with pre-built gallery and shop themes, let most artists set up both without hiring a developer.
Show Your Work, Sell Your Work, One Site
Launch a gallery and store on NVMe-backed hosting from $2.09/mo.
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