Homestead Site-Builder Review The Godfather of Websites
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Homestead’s website claims a whopping 12 million users, making Endurance one of the biggest website hosts out there. The platform has also received numerous positive press reactions since since its launch in 1996. This alone is enough to make us want to try their product.
A closer look revealed one feature in particular that we didn’t expect: Homestead works as both an online and offline website builder. But you can’t actually do anything unless you’re connected to the internet, which cancels out any advantages to this two-tiered approach. We’ll readily admit that we’re not a big fan of installing software too.
Homestead’s web-based tool, Site Builder Light, unfortunately only features a fraction of the tool’s functionality.
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Homestead pricing
Starter
Very limited: 25 MB of storage and only up to 5 pages.
Business
5 GB of storage, up to 3 websites and a maximum of 100 pages. 1 domain name and 5 email accounts.
Business Plus
To create unlimited number of sites and pages.
Monthly prices for 1-year contracts. Domain included in selected packages.
Pros and Cons of Homestead
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Pros
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high number of features and templates
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Conclusion
When describing Homestead’s site builder, it’s easier to tell you what it isn’t: neither free nor cheap. In fact, it is very expensive compared to its competitors. The USD $7.99 package gets you only 5 single pages with storage up to 25 MB (that’s right, not GB). To be able to use it in a remotely realistic fashion, you’d have to opt for their hugely overpriced Business package at USD $22.99.
The problem is not that Homestead is missing a lot of features. Instead, the underpinning system should probably have been replaced long ago because it seems like more and more features have just been added on top of an old core. Homestead is the dinosaur of website builders and is doomed for extinction, unless it quickly learns to adapt to its new environment.
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