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
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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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