Register with an email and password — no credit card, no waitlist. During the public beta every plan is free.
Webstead supports three ways to get a site live:
owner/repo), pick a branch, and we auto-detect your framework's build settings. See Deploying from GitHub for details.index.html and friends). No build step, no GitHub account required.Once you create a site, Webstead provisions an asset canister on the Internet Computer, funds it with cycles, and publishes your build output. This takes anywhere from a few seconds (direct upload) to a couple of minutes (a GitHub build). You'll see a live deploy log the whole way through.
Every site gets a {your-slug}.webstead.app address automatically — no DNS setup required. From there you can:
VITE_API_URL, NEXT_PUBLIC_*, or any key your build needs) on the site's Environment tab. They're encrypted at rest and only used during the build — asset canisters don't run a server, so there's no runtime to read them at request time.Your site runs on cycles, the Internet Computer's on-chain compute currency. We show this as a runway — days of normal operation left — rather than a raw balance, and fund it for you under a monthly top-up budget during the beta. Full explanation: Cycles, runway, and top-ups.