Forge

Pricing

What's it going to cost me?

Forge starts at just $4 / month

LeadNEW
$4
1 site
TurboJS Enabled
Global CDN
Custom Domains
24/7 Support
2GB bandwidth / month
Additional billed at 25¢ / GB

CopperMost Popular
$10
10 sites
TurboJS Enabled
Global CDN
Custom Domains
24/7 Support
10GB bandwidth / month
Additional billed at 20¢ / GB

BronzeRising Fast
$50
Unlimited Sites
TurboJS Enabled
Global CDN
Custom Domains
Priority 24/7 Support
1 Hammer License
100GB bandwidth / month
Additional billed at 18¢ / GB

IronNEW
$100
Unlimited sites
TurboJS Enabled
Global CDN
Custom Domains
Priority 24/7 Support
5 Hammer Licenses
1TB bandwidth / month
Additional billed at 15¢ / GB

Sign Up for a free trial with Forge No credit card required

Your Forge account is billed based on how much bandwidth you use. On our copper plan, if you stay under 10GB each month, you'll only be charged the base rate of $10. Extra bandwidth over that is charged at 20¢ per gigabyte.

How much bandwidth will I need?

That depends! The more images and assets your site has, the more bandwidth you'll use serving up your site. The more traffic your site gets, the more bandwidth you'll use.

As a rough guide, the average bandwidth for a Forge site is about 1GB per month. That means you could host 10 sites on our copper plan and still not be charged for extra bandwidth. Nice!

How does billing work?

Your Forge account is billed as a monthly subscription, with no minimum term so you can cancel, upgrade or downgrade as and when you want to.

We'll bill your payment method once a month for the base rate as indicated by the plan, along with any additional bandwidth costs you incurred during the month.

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Why go static?

Static websites with Forge are the future

Static brings the thunder and Forge is as fast as lightning.

Many of today's sites use slow programming languages and database calls on the server to compile and serve up your sites.
But there's a secret to better performance.
By taking your site static, you can be sure that your web pages will always be insanely fast. No servers or database queries to worry about.

Why is static a better way to build and host my website?

Speed Every time your visitors have to wait for a page to load, they're one click away from leaving. A static site can be served much, much quicker.

Control Take control over your markup and create and update it your way. Static sites are about the craftsman and their tools, not systems and data.

Robustness By decoupling your sites from servers and databases you’re removing overhead and making your site as performant as it can be.

Hammer for Mac

We built Hammer especially for front-end developers working with static webpages and builds.

Use Hammer on the Mac to create your static websites and publish to Forge with a simple drag and drop. Find out more.

Download Today

Give Forge a try for free right now

When you sign up you'll have one site available with a 1GB per month bandwidth cap. Upgrading to our Copper Plan lets you create up to 10 sites using your own custom domains with uncapped bandwidth (billed at 20¢ / GB over a 10GB threshold). That's an undeniably good deal.

Lead
$4
1 site
2GB

Copper
$10
10 sites
10GB

Bronze
$50
Unlimited
100GB

Iron
$100
Unlimited
1TB

Additional bandwidth available

More information is available on our pricing page

Claim your free Forge Site No credit card required

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Features

Great features only in Forge

Features never seen in a hosting platform before. Until now.

Our features set and user interface is like no other hosting services’ you’ve used. Carefully considered, crafted and geared to make hosting easier than it’s ever been before — no other hosting company does it like this.

Version based history Every deploy you make to your site on Forge is kept in the timeline, ready to rollback to.

Optimized for speed The only thing faster than our control panel is the very website you're hosting with it.

Collaborate with others Invite anyone to a Forge site and they can upload builds and manage it too.

Live site previews See your site right in the Forge interface.

File differences View the file changes between versions.

Drag & Drop, or sync with Dropbox or GitHub. Your choice.

Drag & Drop Zip up your static site and just drag and drop it to the Forge window. As easy as that.

Sync with Dropbox Forge can follow a Dropbox folder, store the changes and then let you deploy the changes when you like.

Sync with GitHub Forge can also sync with a folder in a GitHub repo and deploy a new version whenever you're ready.

The best features in Forge are the ones behind the scenes.

We've built Forge with static websites in mind, so when we say we're optimized for serving up your content quicker than anyone else, it's because that was goal number one. Here's a little of what we do to achieve this —

Speedy UI Creating new versions is quick & easy thanks to a streamlined interface.
TurboJS Your site is optimised to eliminate page loads and speed everything up.
Super Fast CDN Your pages & assets are hosted on super-fast networks around the world.

Read our Docs for more about the technologies behind Forge and how to make the most of them

Give Forge a try for free right now

When you sign up you'll have one site available with a 1GB per month bandwidth cap. Upgrading to our Copper Plan lets you create up to 10 sites using your own custom domains with uncapped bandwidth (billed at 20¢ / GB over a 10GB threshold). That's an undeniably good deal.

Lead
$4
1 site
2GB

Copper
$10
10 sites
10GB

Bronze
$50
Unlimited
100GB

Iron
$100
Unlimited
1TB

Additional bandwidth available

More information is available on our pricing page

Claim your free Forge Site No credit card required

Forge

Support

Make the most of Forge

Welcome to The Guild

A creative community of web designers and developers around the world.

Visit The Guild

In App Support Message us at any time directly from the Forge app.

Register Today

Slack Team Chat to our team and most passionate users instantly.

Join Slack

There are a few tricks to using Forge.

Read this page for more information, tips and tricks and how to get the most out of our service.

TurboJS tips

Put your Javascripts in the <head> element.

TurboJS is a brand-new javascript library developed in collaboration with Alex MacCaw. TurboJS is a unique new engine, designed to serve all your site's pages in the background - making your site super, duper, extra fast.

Custom Domain tips

Sometimes it's hard to get your head around DNS settings.

So we've put together some instructions to help guide you through the process. Launch Helper

General tips

Concatenate your stylesheets and javascripts

Got a bunch of stylesheets? Put them all together to make them extra speedy. This means fewer HTTP requests, which means less overhead for your users, and faster-loading pages.


          <link href="normalize.css" />
<link href="style.css" />
<link href="pages.css" />
<link href="buttons.css" />


          <link href="public.css" />

If you're using Hammer for Mac, remember to build with "Optimized" mode enabled.

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Forge Blog

All the latest updates on Forge

"Forge School Basics - The Web Design Process"

1st July, 2015 Affiliate Post

We've partnered with online video learning platform Lynda.com to introduce you to some great online courses, which will help you to design better websites.

"Opening the Roadmap for Forge"

26th June, 2015

We're a big fan of having an open and collaborative roadmap. So one of the first things I want to do, is get the tools in place and invite you to participate in the future of Forge. That's why we've opened up a Public Trello Board, so you know what we're thinking.

"Sync with Dropbox and GitHub"

12th December, 2013

Today we're introducing what's been, by far, the most requested feature from our users - support for syncing and deploying sites using Dropbox and GitHub.

"Get Started With Hammer - TutsPlus"

28th November, 2013 Affiliate Post

Forge is a wonderful way to host your static sites. But Hammer is a beautiful way to build them. This short course, provided by Ian Yates via TutsPlus will get you all the way from setup to deployment and teach you why static is the future. With three hours of video lessons, you'll soon be building static websites with ease.

Take The Course

Give Forge a try for free right now

When you sign up you'll have one site available with a 1GB per month bandwidth cap. Upgrading to our Copper Plan lets you create up to 10 sites using your own custom domains with uncapped bandwidth (billed at 20¢ / GB over a 10GB threshold). That's an undeniably good deal.

Lead
$4
1 site
2GB

Copper
$10
10 sites
10GB

Bronze
$50
Unlimited
100GB

Iron
$100
Unlimited
1TB

Additional bandwidth available

More information is available on our pricing page

Claim your free Forge Site No credit card required

Forge

Forge is the fastest possible way to host your website.

Why should I go static and why should I do it with Forge?

Give Forge a try for free right now

Pricing

Forge starts at just $4 / month

How much bandwidth will I need?

How does billing work?

Why go static?

Static brings the thunder and Forge is as fast as lightning.

Why is static a better way to build and host my website?

Hammer for Mac

Give Forge a try for free right now

Features

Features never seen in a hosting platform before. Until now.

Drag & Drop, or sync with Dropbox or GitHub. Your choice.

The best features in Forge are the ones behind the scenes.

Give Forge a try for free right now

Support

Welcome to The Guild

There are a few tricks to using Forge.

TurboJS tips

Custom Domain tips

General tips