Documentation

Reocities is a free host for hand-made websites. You get a subdomain, a file manager, a visual builder, and as much or as little tooling as you want to use. These pages explain how each part works.

If you have never built a site before, start with Create your first site. If you already have HTML ready, go straight to the file manager.

What you get

• A subdomain at yourname.reocities.xyz, live the moment you upload.
• Static hosting for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, audio and video.
• A browser-based file manager and code editor, so you never need FTP.
• A visual builder for people who would rather not write markup by hand.
• Optional custom domains, visitor translation, and an API.

Why static hosting

Every Reocities site is a folder of files served exactly as you wrote them. There is no database query on each request, no template engine, and no build step between you and the page. That has some real consequences worth understanding before you start.

Pages load quickly, because the server does almost nothing: it finds a file and sends it. Your site cannot break because a database went down or a dependency changed underneath you. And because it is only files, you can copy the whole thing elsewhere whenever you like. There is no proprietary format to escape from. If Reocities vanished tomorrow, the folder you uploaded would still work on any web server.

The trade-off is that anything which needs to run on a server cannot happen here. Contact forms that email you, user accounts, comment systems that store data. All of those need something Reocities does not provide. The usual answer is to do it in the browser with JavaScript, or to call an external service that handles the server half for you.

Who this is for

Reocities suits people who want to make a website rather than run one. If you like writing markup and arranging things by hand, you will get on with it. If your project needs logins, dashboards and stored user data, you are building a web application, and that wants a different kind of host.

What Reocities is not

There is no server-side scripting. Your site is served as static files, so PHP, Python and databases will not run. Anything dynamic has to happen in the browser or against an external API. That constraint is deliberate, and it keeps sites fast, portable and cheap to host.