Codex hosting costs £9.99 a month and includes 25GB of storage and two spaces, with the first month free. Ordinary hosting assumes a person uploads the files. This assumes an agent does, which changes what the account has to provide.
Every plan includes two spaces, not one. You get a test space when you sign up and a live space on your own domain when you are ready to launch. Both run the same stack, so what you approve on the test space is exactly what goes live.
yourname.codex-cms.com
On a subdomain we provide. Build here, break things here, and let Codex iterate without a customer ever seeing a half-finished page.
yourdomain.com
Your production space on your own domain, switched on when you are ready. SSL is issued automatically and the test space stays available for the next round of changes.
An agent can rewrite a page in seconds, which is exactly why you want somewhere that is not your live site to do it. The test space gives Codex room to work and gives you a URL to review before anything reaches a real visitor.
Nothing breaks and your site stays online. We contact you to talk about extra storage rather than suspending the account, because a site going down over a few hundred megabytes helps nobody.
Yes, and it is the normal setup. You point your domain at the server, SSL is issued automatically, and your live space runs on your own address rather than a subdomain of ours.
Your content is yours. The site is ordinary PHP files and a MySQL database, so you can export both and host them anywhere. We keep them for 30 days after a subscription ends so you can request an export — see the terms for the detail.