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Do I own my website?
UPDATED OCTOBER 30, 2026
You own your website only if four things are in your name: the domain, the code, the content, and the hosting and CMS accounts. Many businesses discover they own none of them when they try to leave an agency or a platform. At Ghost all four are yours from day one: the domain is registered in your account, the code is handed over in a repository you control, the CMS and hosting are your accounts, and if you ever leave you take everything with you.
The four things to check
- Domain: whose registrar account is it in? If not yours, you do not own your address.
- Code: do you have it, and may you use it elsewhere? A platform site has no code to hand over.
- Content: text and images. Yours, unless a contract says otherwise.
- Accounts: hosting, CMS, analytics. In your name, with you as owner, not as a guest.
Questions to ask before you sign
- If we part ways, what do I walk away with, and in what form?
- Is there any licence, subscription or plugin the site cannot run without?
- Who is the registered owner of the domain and the hosting account?
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Related questions
- Do I own a website built on a site builder?
- You own the content you typed in, and usually the domain if you registered it. You do not own the site itself; it exists only inside the platform and cannot be moved.
- What does Ghost hand over at the end?
- The code repository, the CMS project, the hosting project, the domain in your registrar, and a short document explaining where everything lives.
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Tell us what you need. Any budget.
Say what you have in mind and what you can spend. You get back what we would build for it, how long it takes and a fixed price, usually within one business day.
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