Squarespace review
Design-led hosted builder
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Quick verdict
The best-looking option out of the box if design matters more than technical flexibility.
A hosted website builder with a strong reputation for template design, aimed at portfolios, small business and creative work. Hosting is bundled and not separately configurable.
Who it suits
- · People who never want to touch hosting
- · Portfolios and creative work
- · First-time site owners
Who should look elsewhere
- · Little control over performance tuning
- · No true export path to self-hosting
- · Third-party extensibility is limited compared with WordPress
Hostoholic Score
How this rating is built
Weighted from six dimensions. Affiliate commission is not an input — there is no field for it in the calculation.
What you pay across the full term — including the renewal, not just the headline.
Channels offered, hours covered, and whether the answers are any good.
Control panel, onboarding, migration and how much you need to already know.
Not yet assessed: Performance, Reliability, Features. These are excluded and the remaining weights renormalised, rather than counted as zero.
What is good
- Templates look genuinely professional without design work
- Everything managed, nothing to maintain
- Solid built-in commerce for small catalogues
What is not
- Little control over performance tuning
- No true export path to self-hosting
- Third-party extensibility is limited compared with WordPress
The detail
Features and specifications
Anything marked unknown has not been verified by an editor yet. We would rather show a gap than a guess.
Hosting and platform
- Control panel
- Squarespace Editor
- UK data centre
- Unknown
- Data centre regions
- Unknown
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Email hosting included
- No
- Free migration
- Unknown
- Money-back period
- Unknown
Performance and tooling
- Staging environment
- Unknown
- CDN included
- Yes
- Object caching
- Unknown
- Redis
- Unknown
- Automatic backups
- Unknown
- Backup retention
- Unknown
Developer access
- SSH access
- Unknown
- Git
- Unknown
- WP-CLI
- Unknown
- Cron jobs
- Unknown
- PHP versions
- Unknown
- Node.js support
- Unknown
Ecommerce and security
- WooCommerce support
- Unknown
- Malware protection
- Unknown
- Web application firewall
- Unknown
- DDoS protection
- Unknown
- Support channels
- email, live chat, knowledge base
Pricing
What it costs
We publish a price only once an editor has checked it against the provider's own pricing page and recorded the date.
| Plan | Type | Sites | Latest checked price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | builder | — | GBP 12 |
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Sources
Where this information came from
- Squarespace hosting overview· Capabilities and plan structure · checked 17/08/2026
- Squarespace pricing page· Entry pricing · checked 17/08/2026
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