Wix review
All-in-one website builder with hosting included
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Quick verdict
Fine for a simple brochure site if you never intend to move it. Poor fit if you may want to migrate later.
A hosted website builder aimed at non-technical users. Hosting, templates and editor are a single bundled product; you never touch a server or a control panel.
Who it suits
- · First-time site owners
- · People who never want to touch hosting
Who should look elsewhere
- · You cannot export the site to another host
- · Less control over technical SEO than WordPress
- · Costs add up once you need commerce or removal of branding
Hostoholic Score
How this rating is built
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Not yet rated
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What is good
- No technical setup at all
- Large template library
- Hosting, SSL and updates handled for you
What is not
- You cannot export the site to another host
- Less control over technical SEO than WordPress
- Costs add up once you need commerce or removal of branding
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
- Wix 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
- phone, ticket, knowledge base
Pricing
What it costs
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Pricing not yet verified
Hosting prices change constantly and promotional rates change weekly. A stale figure here would look authoritative and be quietly wrong, so we link you to the source instead.
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Sources
Where this information came from
- Wix hosting overview· Capabilities and plan structure · checked 17/08/2026
- Wix pricing page· Entry pricing — not yet verified · checked 17/08/2026
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