The Archive Keeps Growing. Plan For That.
Christian radio website hosting: stream hosting, program and sermon archives, listener email and pledge-drive giving for Christian radio stations and broadcast ministries — on servers we own in the United States.
Christian Radio Website Hosting: The Short Answer
A station is a hosting problem with an unusual shape: a live stream that must not drop, an archive that grows every single day and never shrinks, and two pledge drives a year that put more load on the site in a week than the other fifty combined. Our Christian radio website hosting handles all three on a managed VPS from $59 a month on annual billing, with listener email sending from our own SMTP servers and billed on sends rather than list size.
What Christian radio website hosting has to carry
Christian radio website hosting is judged on its worst week, not its average one. A pledge drive sends listeners to the stream, the giving page and the prayer-request form at the same moment. If the site slows down, you lose gifts and listeners together. Plan Christian radio website hosting around that peak, then everything else is easy.
Questions to ask about Christian radio website hosting
- Are resources dedicated, or shared with unknown neighbors?
- Is the archive backed up, and can you restore a single show?
- Will the provider warn you before listeners notice a problem?
- Can you keep your current stream distributor?
Accessibility also counts, because listeners include people who use screen readers and large text. The W3C’s introduction to web accessibility explains the basics in plain language. Our Website Builder starts at $10.99/mo for a simple station site, and church and nonprofit ministries receive a 15% discount.
Moving your Christian radio website hosting
Migration from your current provider is free, and we schedule the move away from pledge week. We copy the site first, test it, and only then point the domain across.
Servers are in the United States, and staff email on your own domain starts at $1.95/user/mo with Liberation Email. To talk through your Christian radio website hosting, contact us and tell us your busiest week and your current host. We will answer with a written plan and quote.
Full-power stations already maintain an FCC online public inspection file; your website deserves the same care. Christian radio website hosting from us keeps the stream, the archive and the giving pages on one managed server, and our Christian radio website hosting is sized for pledge week.
Website Starter Bundle
The site builder with hosting and SSL, one Hub for Teams mailbox on your own domain, and the domain itself free for the first year — in one annual plan instead of three separate decisions.
Three Problems A General Host Does Not Plan For
The stream cannot drop
Dedicated resources rather than a shared box whose neighbors you cannot see, with monitoring that tells us before a listener emails you. We host the origin and the station site; keep your existing stream distributor if it works.
The archive only grows
Daily programs, sermon series, interviews and special broadcasts accumulate forever. Recent content stays on fast storage; the back catalogue moves to object storage at roughly $8 per terabyte a month behind a cache, so ten years of programming costs a predictable line rather than forcing a painful clear-out.
Pledge week is the real load test
Two weeks a year your site takes more traffic and more transactions than the rest of the year together. That is a capacity conversation to have in advance, not during.
- Most email platforms relay through someone else The platform you use may not own the sending infrastructure. When it does not, the relay’s acceptable use policy governs what you can send and to whom, regardless of what the platform told you.
- Liberation Campaign runs on our own SMTP and our own software Our servers, our software, in data centers we own in the United States. For a ministry whose annual budget depends on two email-driven pledge weeks, that is a materially different risk profile.
- Deliverability is still a discipline Owning the relay removes the policy risk, not the filtering. Authentication, list hygiene and sending patterns still decide whether your drive appeal reaches the inbox — and a pledge week is the worst possible time to discover a broken DNS record.
We Own The Mail Servers, Not Just The Web Servers
A station’s listener list funds the pledge drive. It is worth knowing who runs the machines it sends from.
Giving, On The Air And Off It
Pledge drives and recurring partners
One-time pledges during a drive and recurring monthly partners the rest of the year, processed through an account set up for a ministry. Recurring giving is where station budgets actually stabilize.
Listener email that is not billed by list size
Liberation Campaign charges for emails sent. A station with a 30,000-name listener list that mails twice a month pays for those sends, not for storing the names — $20 a month covers 40,000 emails.
Underwriters and sponsors
A media kit, rate card, underwriter pages and the reporting a sponsor asks for, on a site you control rather than a template your network supplies.
- Program schedule, hosts and the listen-live button The four things every listener came for, findable in one tap on a phone in a truck. Most station sites bury at least two of them.
- Program and sermon archives that can be searched By program, host, speaker, series, date and topic. An archive nobody can search is storage, not a ministry asset.
- Podcast feeds from the same content Your programs already exist as audio. Publishing them as podcast feeds reaches a different audience from the same work, and the feed belongs to you.
The Station Website Listeners Actually Use
Studio And Office IT
The network behind the board
Automation systems, studio workstations, the office network and the remote-broadcast connection. Separated properly so a spreadsheet on the office PC cannot reach the machine running your log.
Backups of the thing you cannot recreate
Program archives and automation libraries, backed up off site and encrypted, from $2.09 a month. A lost archive is lost permanently.
Staff and volunteer email
Hosts, production, traffic, development and the board, on your own domain, from $1.95 per user a month.
Start Today — Pick What You Need
Order any of these in a few minutes, or read the full details first. Pricing is published up front, so you do not need a quote to see what it costs.
Website Builder
$10.99/monthBuild the site yourself from a template. Hosting, SSL and a free domain on annual billing are included.
Get started →See plan detailsLiberation Email
From $1.95/user/monthEmail on your own domain instead of a free address, with calendar, contacts and appointments.
Get started →See plan detailsHub for Teams
From $7.49/user/monthEmail, calendar, files, chat and video for the whole team in one workspace on your own domain.
Get started →See plan detailsShared Cloud Hosting
From $7.99/monthHost a site you already have. SSL, backups and cPanel included. $7.99 is the three-year rate, $14.99 month to month.
Get started →See plan detailsTransfer A Domain
Start it in a few minutesPut the domain in the company name, where a past web guy or an ex-employee cannot hold it hostage.
Get started →How transfers work
- Managed VPS from $59/mo annual ($79/mo monthly) — 4 vCPU, 8GB RAM, 6TB transfer
- Archive object storage roughly $8 per TB per month, cached
- Liberation Campaign send-based: $10/mo for 10,000 emails, $20/mo for 40,000, $45/mo for 100,000 — our own SMTP infrastructure
- Liberation Email from $1.95 per user/mo; Mail Pro $7.95 per user/mo
- Hub for Teams $7.49 per user/mo
- CodeGuard encrypted off-site backups from $2.09/mo; SiteLock from $14.99/mo
- Studio and office IT scoped per station
Christian Radio & Broadcast Ministries FAQs
Do we have to move our streaming provider?
No. If your stream distribution works, keep it. We host the station website, the archive, the podcast feeds, the giving and the studio network around it.
Who sends our listener email?
We do, on our own SMTP servers and our own software. There is no third-party relay with a policy that could override ours — which matters for a ministry whose budget depends on two email-driven pledge weeks a year.
How do you handle an archive that grows every day?
Recent programming stays on fast VPS storage where it is requested most; the back catalogue moves to object storage at roughly $8 per terabyte a month behind a cache. Cost grows slowly and predictably instead of forcing a purge.
Can the site handle pledge week?
Yes, if you tell us when it is. We provision ahead of a date you already know rather than reacting after the site slows down in the middle of a drive.
Can we take recurring monthly partners as well as one-time pledges?
Yes. Both one-time and recurring giving can be set up, which is what turns a pledge drive into a stable monthly base.
Can you support the studio, not just the website?
Yes. Automation and studio networking, office network separation, remote broadcast connectivity and tested backups are normal scope, remotely and on site where coverage allows.
What does Christian radio website hosting cost?
Christian radio website hosting runs on a managed VPS from $59 a month on annual billing, with listener email billed on sends rather than list size.
We broadcast for a church. Can you host both sites?
Yes, on one account with one invoice. They are worth keeping as separate sites — a station site is built around a schedule, a stream and underwriters, and a congregation site is built around giving, sermons and events. Our church web hosting page covers the second of those, including what a ministry should own rather than rent.
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Talk To Us Before The Next Drive
Tell us your archive size, your listener list and when your pledge weeks fall. We will scope the hosting, the giving and the studio network around your calendar.
Streaming and the archive are what make this different from a normal site
A station website is two different problems wearing one coat. The brochure half — schedule, hosts, contact, donate — is ordinary. The streaming and archive half is not: live audio, sermon or programme archives, and podcast files are bandwidth and storage in a way a church website never is, and that is where a cheap plan quietly stops being adequate.
Work out your actual numbers before anyone quotes you. Hours of audio published per week, average file size, how long the archive stays online, and peak concurrent listeners during your busiest programme. A host who does not ask for those is guessing, and the guess will be wrong in whichever direction costs you more.
Decide deliberately where the stream itself lives. Most stations are better served by a dedicated streaming provider for the live feed and ordinary hosting for the website, rather than asking one plan to do both. Ask honestly which parts a provider actually runs and which they are reselling — it changes who you call at six on a Sunday morning.
On the giving side, recurring donations are the lifeblood and the thing most likely to break silently. Card expiry handling, failed-payment retries and whether donors can update their own details matter more to annual income than the design of the donate page does.
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