Church Web Hosting Your Ministry Controls
Your site, email and giving, on servers you can actually reach.
The Short Answer
Good church web hosting puts four things under your church’s control: the website on your own domain, email addresses that match it, an online giving page you own, and backups that someone has tested. Hosting alone is the cheap part. The real value is who can log in, who can leave, and who holds your donor list. This page walks through each piece, in plain terms, for pastors and church administrators.
What church web hosting needs to cover
A site your team can edit
A church site changes every week: sermons, events, prayer requests, staff. If only one developer can touch it, updates stall. Pick church web hosting where a volunteer can post a sermon without a phone call. Our website builder is drag and drop, and custom builds are team-editable too.
Email on your own domain
[email protected] looks like a church. A free webmail address does not, and it disappears when a volunteer leaves. Church email hosting on your domain keeps every mailbox yours. See Liberation Email for how that works.
Giving you control
Online giving is the part where a third-party platform often owns the relationship. We build recurring, text-to-give and designated fund options into your own site, and your church owns the donor data. Details are on the churches page.
Most churches already have one of these three working. The goal is to have all three on one account, with one set of logins you can manage.
- Hosting on U.S.-owned servers
- Free SSL certificate on every shared plan
- Sermon archives and events calendar
- Staff directory and ministry pages
- Mobile responsive design
- Editable by your team without a developer
Church website hosting that fits your size
Most small and mid-size congregations do well on shared web hosting. Plans run on NVMe storage with cPanel, SSL and a 30-day money-back guarantee, and the monthly price shown today starts at $14.99 for the Starter plan, lower with a longer term.
If you run WordPress, our WordPress hosting is built for it. Either way, church web hosting should not require a technical person on staff.
- Build with drag and drop and 200+ templates
- Domain and SSL included on annual plans
- Download your whole site by FTP anytime
- Start from $10.99 per month
- Move to a custom build later without starting over
A church website builder you can outgrow
If your church has no site yet, or an old one nobody can update, a church website builder is the fastest start. Ours includes hosting, SSL and a domain on annual plans, and the Starter plan is $10.99 per month.
You keep ownership. If the church grows into giving, members areas and streaming, our team builds on the same hosting, so you do not rebuild from scratch.
Email, giving and church website security
Church email hosting you own
With church email hosting on your domain, staff and ministry leaders get addresses like office@ and youth@ that stay with the church. Liberation Email supports multi-factor authentication and the SPF, DKIM and DMARC settings that keep your messages out of spam folders. Migration from your current provider is included.
Church online giving, built in
Church online giving on our platform covers one-time and recurring gifts, text-to-give, designated funds, pledge campaigns and automatic year-end statements. Payment processing rates are quoted in writing before you commit. For gifts of $250 or more, donors need a written acknowledgment, which the IRS describes in detail. This is general information, not tax advice.
Church website security basics
Church website security starts with habits. CISA recommends passwords of at least 16 characters, a different one per account, and multifactor authentication. Our hosting adds layered security, firewalls and backups behind that.
Security tools only help if someone owns them. Name one person, and one backup, so nothing depends on a single volunteer.
Backups and recovery for church web hosting
A hacked or broken site on a Saturday night is a real problem for a church. Church web hosting should include backups you can restore, and a person to call. On our VPS hosting, daily automated backups with 7 to 30 days of retention are standard. CodeGuard, SiteLock and 360 Monitoring are available as add-ons.
Ask any host how a restore works, how long it takes, and who does it. Our support afterwards is a phone call to a named contact, not a ticket queue.
- Live and on-demand video, embedded on your site
- Unlimited customizable live streams
- Fast RTMPS delivery
- Optional paywall or membership content
- Analytics on your video and audio
- Video migration from your current platform
Streaming embeds for church web hosting
Many churches stream the service and then bury the video on a third-party page. With our streaming platform, live and recorded services play inside your own site. Streams run at roughly 15 seconds of latency, which suits worship better than chat.
Pricing is quoted after a call, since a weekly service and a conference are different jobs. You can also pair streaming with a VPS plan if your site needs more room.
Volunteers, offboarding and church web hosting cost
Volunteer access without risk
Give each volunteer their own login with only the access they need. Shared passwords are how a former youth leader ends up with the keys to your giving page.
Offboarding checklist
When someone leaves, remove their site login, mailbox forwarding and hosting access the same day. Keep a written list of every account tied to your church web hosting, and review it each quarter.
What church web hosting costs
Hosting runs from a few dollars a month, and a church website setup starts in the low hundreds. Custom builds with giving, member areas and streaming are quoted as a project. Compare options with the savings calculator or see custom IT solutions.
If you are leaving another platform, the website migration checklist helps you plan the move around your service schedule.
Church web hosting FAQs
What is church web hosting?
Church web hosting is the service that keeps your church website online, on your own domain, with the email, backups and security around it. The best setups also cover online giving and streaming. The point is that your church, not a vendor, controls the logins, the content and the donor data.
How much does church web hosting cost?
Hosting starts at a few dollars a month. Today the shared Starter plan lists at $14.99 monthly, with lower rates on longer terms, and the website builder starts at $10.99. Church website setup starts in the low hundreds, and custom projects are quoted after a conversation. See the churches page for current details.
Can we keep our domain and move our site?
Yes. We transfer sites from WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Subsplash, Ministry Brands, Tithe.ly and custom builds, including sermon archives and media. Cutover is scheduled around your service times, and nothing goes live mid-week without a tested rollback. Staff get written guides afterwards.
Do we need a church website builder or a developer?
For a standard site with sermons, events and staff pages, a church website builder is usually enough and costs less. You need a developer when you want custom giving, a private member area or streaming. Our team can build those on the same hosting, so you can start small.
Who owns our donor and member data?
Your church does. Our policy is that member and donor data is never sold or scanned for advertising, and a full export is available when you close the account. Data sits on U.S.-owned hardware that we operate. Read the terms of service for the exact language.
Is church email hosting different from Gmail?
It can be. Church email hosting puts mailboxes on your domain on servers Liberation operates, instead of a platform whose policies can change. You get multi-factor authentication and proper SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup. Migration from your current provider is included. Pricing comes through a short call.
How do we secure our church website?
Use long unique passwords with a password manager, turn on multifactor authentication, keep software updated, and limit who can log in. Then make sure your host runs backups and firewalls. Our hosting includes layered security, and we offer a free risk assessment if you want a second opinion.
Get your church web hosting sorted
Tell us what you run today and what worries you. We will price the whole thing before you commit, and say so when a simpler option would serve you just as well. Start on the churches page or send us a note.
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