If You Don't Want a Platform And Just Want Your Store to Work. Consider Managed Hosting with Access To Your Online Store.
Most "solutions" for selling digital products come with strings attached. Monthly fees that creep up. Dashboards you don't control. Data you can't export without jumping through hoops. And underneath it all, a quiet truth: you are building on someone else's land.
eBuilder is different. It's open source. You own it. You can run it yourself, on your own server, forever. Nobody can raise your prices, change the terms, or shut you down.
But maybe you don't want to manage servers. Maybe you just want access to the applications so you can sell your products without thinking about updates, security, or what happens when something breaks at 2am. That's what this is for.
You own the software. I handle the boring bits.
Managed Hosting: £19/month
(Early adoptors only - price locked in for life)
I run your eBuilder store for you. Same software, same ownership, same freedom, but I handle the infrastructure so you don't have to. All you have to do is log in and add your business details and products.
Your price stays at £19/month for as long as you are a customer. Eventually, (after the first 20 or so customers) the price will go up to £24 then £29. Both of which are still reasonable monthly fees for running an eCommerce store. But your rate never changes once you're in.
What You're Actually Getting
→ A dedicated eBuilder site running on a secure VPS
→ The same professional setup used by developers, without you needing to understand any of it
→ Automatic updates when new versions of eBuilder release
→ Security patches applied without you lifting a finger
→ Daily backups so you never lose your products, orders, or content
→ Uptime monitoring - if something breaks, I'll know before you do
→ Up to 2 hours of email support per month for hosting-related issues
No setup fees. No contracts. No transaction fees charged by me. Pay only what Stripe charges.
It's easier for me to manage your site than for you to figure it out alone - that's the whole point. The admin dashboard is designed so you can't accidentally break your store. Add products, change prices, update your content - the technical bits stay safely out of reach.
Comparsion only for context: Shopify Basic costs £20/month AND takes a cut of every sale AND locks you into their ecosystem. Sellfy starts at £18/month with sales caps. You are getting more freedom for a comparable price.
What This Doesn't Include - Important!
I want to be upfront about this from the start so everything is clear. Managed hosting covers infrastructure. It does not cover:
- Access to the hosting environment.
- Custom design work or CSS changes
- Adding features or functionality to your site
- Theme modifications
- Uploading your products or writing your content
- Training sessions or tutorials
- Fixing problems caused by changes you made
If you need any of the above, I'm happy to quote it separately. But it's not part of the monthly hosting fees.
The Part Most Platforms Won't Say Out Loud
Your data is yours. Completely.
- Your data stays in standard database formats. If you ever want to leave, you get a complete copy of everything - your products, orders, customers, all of it.
- You can move to self-hosting whenever you want
- You can leave entirely with no penalty, no "processing fee," no guilt trip
There's no proprietary database format or account system holding your store hostage. Simply get it touch to request your data.
eBuilder is open source software. Managed hosting is just someone else running it for you. That's the entire relationship.
If you cancel, you simply take your database and move it to your new home and you're done. Clean break. No hard feelings.
