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Exit rights, not a promise
Self-custody export is a documented process: a canister controller transfer, not a rewrite. You can read exactly how it works on your account before you ever need it.
A land-registry deed proves you hold a plot, independently of whoever rents you the surrounding land. That's the model. Your site's canister is the deed, Webstead is the surveyor and caretaker, and the Internet Computer is the ground it's built on.
The Internet Computer makes it possible to serve a website directly from a public, replicated network. No rented server, no centralized CDN. That's a genuinely different foundation from the one the rest of the web sits on.
In practice, using it meant installing a CLI, managing an identity and a cycles wallet, and hand-writing a project manifest. Fine for a blockchain engineer, a real barrier for anyone who just wants to publish a site. Webstead closes that gap: connect a repo or drag a folder, and we handle the canister, the cycles and the deploy.
We're a small, EU-based operator running this as a public beta, honest about what's solid today and what's still being built. The FAQ has the specifics.
Self-custody export is a documented process: a canister controller transfer, not a rewrite. You can read exactly how it works on your account before you ever need it.
An asset canister is a standard Internet Computer primitive, not a Webstead format. What we build on top is convenience. The deed underneath is always yours to take.
Every canister ID is public and checkable on the network's own dashboard. Our status page shows real worker liveness and deploy success rates, not a marketing claim.
The FAQ lists what works today and what doesn't. A beta label on the product means a beta label in the copy, too.
Webstead is an independently operated project rather than a large hosting company, which is exactly why we lead with transparency instead of asking you to take reliability on faith. The code, the deploy engine and the framework detection are all things we're happy to walk through directly, and the repository is public.
Write to us directly. During the beta you'll reach the people building it, not a ticket queue.