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Getting started

Create a Dplooy account, put your first site online and learn what to do with it once it is live.

What Dplooy does

Dplooy turns an HTML file, a folder, a ZIP or a GitHub repository into a live website on its own https address, such as my-site.dplooy.com. It hosts static sites — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images and fonts — and the features you attach, like a working contact form, a booking calendar, editable content and an AI chatbot, do the jobs that usually need a server.

It also shares single files. Drop a PDF, an image or a ZIP and you get a link that opens or downloads it.

A Dplooy address is public: anyone who has the link can open it. On Plus and Pro, a password or an email gate keeps a site private.

1. Create your account

Open Sign up and choose Continue with Google, or use an email address and a password of at least 6 characters. The Free plan needs no card.

Signed up with email? Dplooy sends you a verification email first — open the link in it and your dashboard opens. Google accounts skip this step.

2. Put your first site online

  1. 1On your dashboard, drag your site onto the drop zone — the box that says Drop anything. We figure out the rest. Or click Browse files for a single file, or Choose folder for a whole folder.
  2. 2Dplooy reads what you dropped. An HTML file goes live as a page and a folder as a whole website. For a ZIP it asks: ZIP to site puts the pages inside it online, ZIP file shares the ZIP itself as a download. A PDF or an image becomes a share link.
  3. 3Type a Project Name — it becomes your address, like my-site.dplooy.com — or press the shuffle button for a random one.
  4. 4Click Deploy. Your pages, stylesheets and scripts are scanned for phishing and malware before anything goes live.
  5. 5When you see Deployed!, click Visit Site.

No files yet? Under the drop zone, Start in Site Builder makes a site from a template or with AI, Deploy from GitHub publishes a repository and Deploy Claude artifact hosts a page Claude made. See Upload and publish for every route.

3. Share it

Open the site once in a private browser window, or on your phone, to see exactly what a visitor sees. Then copy its address from the site's card on your dashboard and send it. For print, open the site and choose QR under Settings for a QR code that points to it.

Plan overview

Free$035 MB50 MB3 days
Plus$4.99 a month2550 MB500 MBUntil you delete them
Pro$12.99 a monthUnlimited100 MB5 GBUntil you delete them

Every plan includes unlimited traffic and bandwidth, https on every address and the Visual Editor. The largest file applies to every file, including the ones inside a ZIP or folder, and one ZIP or folder can be up to 50 MB on Free and 500 MB on Plus and Pro. See Features and plans for what each plan adds and Limits for the exact rules.

On Free, a site goes offline 3 days after you deploy it and is deleted 7 days later. You are emailed before each step, and upgrading to Plus brings it straight back. See Storage and deletion.

After your site is live

Open the site from your dashboard to reach everything it can do. From there you can:

  • see views and visitors in Analytics;
  • update it at the same address with Replace files, from GitHub or from the Site Builder;
  • change text, colours and spacing on the live page with Visual Edit, or the code itself with Code Edit on Pro;
  • add a working contact form, a booking calendar or an AI chatbot on Plus and Pro, and editable content with Data on every plan;
  • connect your own domain on Pro;
  • delete it when you are done.

See Manage sites for every control.

First-site checklist

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