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.

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ChatGPT Sites on a Custom Domain: How to Connect Yours

A site made with ChatGPT can live at your own domain name. What a custom domain changes, what it costs, and the exact steps from chat preview to yourname.com with SSL.

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What Is AI Hosting? The Category Explained in Plain Terms

AI hosting explained: hosting built to run websites that AI tools create. How it differs from web hosting with AI features, what it includes and who needs it.

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How to Host a Website Made With AI: 4 Real Options Compared

Where to host a website made with AI: publish buttons, builders, classic hosting or AI hosting. What each costs you in ownership, plus steps to go live today.

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Host your AI-built portfolio on a real domain

You built a portfolio with ChatGPT or Claude. Here is how to put it online at yourname.com with SSL, and why a real domain beats a shared subdomain when job hunting.

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Host a Website Made With ChatGPT: From Chat to Live Domain

ChatGPT builds websites but cannot host them. How to take the site out of the chat and put it live on your own domain with SSL, forms and analytics.

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Pre-Launch Checklist for an AI-Generated Site

Seven things must be true before customers see your AI-generated site: forms, analytics, HTTPS, uptime, backups, metadata and a tested rollback path.

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Custom domains for AI-built websites: how it actually works

A preview link is not an address you own. How DNS and automatic SSL connect a custom domain to an AI-built site, and why that step makes a launch count.

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AI-hosted websites and GDPR: what a non-lawyer needs to know

A plain guide to GDPR for a small AI-built website: what counts as personal data, where a generated site collects it, and the short list you can act on.

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What is an AI-hosted website?

A plain definition of AI-hosted websites, five questions that decide whether a site is really online, and the preview-link cases that fail the test.

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The prompt-to-production lifecycle, explained

Every AI-built website passes through four stages: build, hand-off, live domain, operation. Where projects stall and what a finished launch looks like.

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AI Website Builders With Hosting Included: 2026 Comparison

Which AI website builders include hosting, and what it covers. Wix, Framer, Durable, Lovable and Bolt compared on custom domains, export and lock-in.

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