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Publish your first site

Sign in

Enter your email and we send you a sign-in link. There is no password to choose and none to lose. The link works once and expires after 15 minutes, so request a fresh one rather than reusing an old email.

Depending on how this installation is configured you may also see a Google button. If you don’t, that isn’t a fault — it means Google sign-in isn’t switched on here, and the emailed link is the way in.

Send your files

On your dashboard, choose New site and give it a file, a whole folder, or a .zip. You can drag any of the three onto the page instead of using the buttons. Whichever you pick, it travels the same route and produces the same result.

Your bundle should have an index.html at its top level. That is the file served when somebody visits your address with nothing after it.

If nothing at the top level is named index.html, the upload still succeeds and the site is still created — but visiting it returns a 404, because there is no page to serve. The dashboard warns you before and after, and you can fix it by sending a corrected bundle. Check that warning rather than dismissing it.

The limits that apply here are the upload size, the file count, and the total size of the finished site.

The first publish waits for review

Your first site will not start serving immediately, and nothing is wrong.

Every new account starts untrusted, and the first publish from an untrusted account is held for a person to look at. What you see is confusing unless you know it is coming:

  • the upload succeeds
  • the site is created and appears on your dashboard
  • the site does not serve — visiting it returns a 404
  • nothing in the interface reads as an error, because nothing failed

The upload genuinely worked. The site is simply switched off until somebody approves it. Once that first approval happens it never happens again — every later publish from your account goes live immediately.

There is nothing to do while you wait, and nothing you can do to speed it up. If you would rather abandon it, you can delete the site; giving up is not the same as opting out of review.

Then share it

Your site gets an eight-character address that never changes — see your site’s URL.

New sites take whichever visibility your account uses as its default, which starts out as link-only: anyone with the address can open it, and search engines are kept away. If you want it findable, change it deliberately.