My wife has her business site on Wix. She likes the bells and whistles as her business is visual/design based.
She got an email from Wix over the weekend saying they’re almost doubling their fees so she’s looking for alternatives.
Squarespace was my suggestion but she says that’s practically the same if not more expensive.
I host my site on Uberspace (
) but that bare bones experience is not for her and I have no time.
Any suggestions?
How often is the site updated and what are the features needed on the site?
If the site is not updated very often you could create a static site and host on GitHub Pages or Clouflare for free. There are also static site generators that will build the site based on markdown or link to other services.
For wordpress hosting I really like SiteGround but not the cheapest.
There’s lots of options at various price points but depends one what you want from the site.
That’s a very good question 
I’ll check out that SiteGround - looks interesting but she’d have to port her site over to Wordpress from Wix by hand I guess.
Thanks for the reply.
Uberspace and a bought wordpress framework? They’re not that expensive but often reaaaally good. I’d look at themeforest for those
I don’t know much about Wix other than they have their own site building tools. There might be an export but you would have to check.
Ghost is a really nice platform in my opinion - not sure how the pricing compares but might be worth looking at as an alternative. Unfortunately doesn’t seem they have Wix listed in their migration guide, so that may be a barrier.
If you need built in editor - unfortunately the options are going to be a bit expensive. If that’s the feature set you’d like to have - it’s best to pick the one best integration and built in tools - which is shopify.
Shopify - all in one ecom package. Honestly, - I’d prefer this over anything in 2025. The service is already embedded to any social media etc. Has native 0 config integration with apple and google pay, plays super well with instagram etc etc. Might look super template-y but works great on mobile.
Framer - has Figma like design tools. Can convert pages straight to webpages. Doesn’t have e-commerce features but can embed 3d party ecom stuff.
Webflow - Great tool but overkill. And expensive. Has built in ecom features as well but doubles the price. Can build native-ish web experiences.
Readymag - Nice looking hipster webpage creator. Not sure about the ecom features though. I am quite conflicted on this tool.
Cargo - I was using this to create my website back like a decade ago. They’ve refreshed recently. It looks cool but i have no idea if it’s sustaible.
ps. I don’t work for shopify lol. it’s really good for ecom.
I do wonder if any alternatives have popped up recently.
I’m using this currently for my site and it works purely as a portfolio/barebones text on page. I’m looking to use it to archive a newsletter for my label and already I can see that it’s not designed to facilitate sites with many pages. I like how basic it is though, but it’s designed to be that way.
Not sure how it compares in terms of pricing, but Duda is similar to Wix I believe.
Cloudflare seconded. Cloudflare is amazing. Gonna be very different experience from Wix, though, since Wix is drag and drop and Cloudflare / Github pages will involve you actually writing code.
That would involve me writing code.
Good call though.
I’m no Wix fanboy for ethical reasons (How ethical is your website platform? | The Smart Bear Websites) but I would suggest weighing up the increase in fees against the labour involved in migrating to another service.
As previously mentioned by @Karhide and @Kirz, the feature requirements should inform the decision. Be aware that switching to a cheaper service could land you in the same situation with an unexpected price hike in the future. These services know that existing customers will tolerate a certain level of price increase before considering switching.
If requirements are relatively simple, I’d suggest building a static site, perhaps with a headless CMS if needed. If DIY doesn’t appeal, consider paying a freelance Designer/Developer rather than funnel yet more money into those wealthy investors’ pockets.
100%. Same reason I don’t touch AWS.
Yeah this is always the issue with moving away from services like Wix. When you build in Wix you buy into their ecosystem, whereby all sorts of things are interconnected and interdependent. Decoupling those things is not straightforward.
It’s seconds to get a page live on something like Cloudflare Pages, and you can handle the back-end parts via Cloudflare Workers, but it depends on willingness to code.
That said, if the Wix site depends on things like Wix auto-handling form submissions, some static site hosts have equivalents to that. On Cloudflare these things are called Functions and can be seamlessly integrated into a Pages site. There’s lots of them to do different things.
So it all depends on the nature of the site.
Another option is to buy some cheap traditional hosting (I recommend Eco Web Hosting) and then setting the site up on there via Wordpress. At least then you’re swapping one CMS for another, even though the migration still won’t be the loveliest of processes.
TL;DR: No easy solution here, but depends on the complexity of the site.
Sound advice!
My managed WordPress host just announced they are shutting down at the end of the month. I think my recent request for a PHP upgrade might have been the reminder they needed to realise they actually had a paying customer.
Thankfully, I was already in the very early stages of migrating to a static site because life if too short to be wrangling WordPress themes. Unfortunately, the soon to be ex-host’s unwillingness to upgrade PHP meant that none of the WP to SSG migration plugins would work so I had to resort to SiteSucker. 
Once I’ve cleaned up the mess, I’m hoping to get VitePress and Cloudflare Pages to play nicely together. 
Fair point, but it also serves their lockin strategies, enabling future price hikes. Customers willing to leave platforms/voting with their feet/wallets is what keeps them honest
That’ll work fine. I host a Vite/Vue project on CF pages currently. CF will just build it from your package.json, no problem.
100% agree with the ethical issue. She’s been looking to ditch them for a while but porting her site (including commerce with physical product) is an enormous task.
This, exactly.
I’m so old I read this three times before realizing you were referring to Cloudflare and not Coldfusion 
I use Wordpress for the blog, and anything else goes on Cloudflare hosting as it’s free for static content and integrates wonderfully with GitHub actions.
Lately, I’ve been using Apple custom domains for emails which land in filtered folders into iCloud mail - and have noticed a significant dip in spoof and spam mails vs hosting my own on a Linode VPS.