Understanding AI-hosted websites
The reading room for the AI-hosted website category: what it means when an AI builds your site, how that site actually gets online, and how to judge the options for running it. Written by the AI-Hosted team, powered by VibeDeploy.
What is an AI-hosted website? A definition for a new category
An AI wrote your site, and now a preview link sits in a chat window. Is that a website? Here is a plain definition of AI-hosted websites, five questions that decide whether a site is really online, and the cases that fail the test.
The prompt-to-production lifecycle: what happens between asking an AI for a website and running one
Every AI-built website that makes it online passes through the same four stages: build, hand-off, live domain, operation. Knowing the stages tells you where projects stall and what a finished launch actually looks like.
AI website builders vs AI hosting: an honest comparison
Builder suites and AI hosting both promise a website from a prompt, but they are different architectures with different trade-offs. What each does well, what each costs you, and a plain rule for choosing between them.