Blog hosting

Blog hosting

Ecency blog hosting gives you your own hosted blog at yourname.blogs.ecency.com (or your own custom domain), powered by your Hive account and content. It is a fast way to run a clean, standalone site that is yours, without managing any servers yourself.

Why a hosted blog?

Your Ecency profile at ecency.com/@username lives inside the main Ecency site, alongside everyone else’s content and under Ecency’s branding. A hosted blog is the opposite: it is your own space.

• Only your content. Readers see your posts on a page dedicated to you, with nothing else competing for attention.
• Your brand. Your name, title, theme, and layout, instead of the shared Ecency shell.
• Your address. A memorable yourname.blogs.ecency.com, or your own domain like blog.yoursite.com.
• Still on Hive. Your posts stay on the Hive blockchain, so you keep your audience, rewards, and portability. The blog is simply a nicer front door to the same content.

What you get

• Your own subdomain. A dedicated blog at yourname.blogs.ecency.com.
• Your Hive content. Your posts rendered on a clean, readable blog theme.
• Nothing to maintain. Ecency hosts and serves the blog for you.
• Simple setup. Pick a name, add a title and description, pay, and you are live.

Price

Blog hosting is 2 HBD or about $2 per month. You can pay for 1, 3, 6, or 12 months at a time.

Free with Ecency Pro. Every Ecency Pro member gets a blog included, so you can claim one without paying for hosting separately.

Payment options

• HBD (Hive Backed Dollars) straight from your Hive wallet.
• Card for a familiar checkout.
• x402, Ecency’s own internet-native payment protocol. It is an agentic rail, so a script or AI agent can pay for and provision a blog programmatically. See x402 payments for the developer flow.

How to set up

1. Go to ecency.com/hosting.
2. Choose your blog name. This becomes yourname.blogs.ecency.com.
3. Add a blog title and description.
4. Pick a term and pay by HBD, card, or x402.
5. Your blog activates as soon as the payment is confirmed.

Custom domain

Want your blog on your own domain, like blog.yoursite.com? Add the Custom domain option for +$1 per month ($3 per month total). After your blog is active:

1. In the Add your custom domain step, enter your domain.
2. At your DNS provider, add the CNAME record shown (its name is a verification token, and it points to yourname.blogs.ecency.com).
3. Click Verify. DNS can take a few minutes to propagate.
4. Once verified, your blog is served on your custom domain.

Custom domains need the Custom domain plan; standard blogs use the blogs.ecency.com subdomain. Custom-domain checkout is a one-step card payment.

Community hosting

Hosting is not only for personal blogs. You can host a whole Hive community as its own branded site, showing the community’s posts, subscribers, and about, at hive-NNNNN.blogs.ecency.com or your own custom domain. It gives a community a home that looks and feels like its own, while every post stays on Hive.

• You control it, not the community account. The instance is owned by the account that creates it (you), separate from the community itself. You never need the community’s keys to run or customize the site.
• Members post into the community. From the hosted site, a logged-in member can publish straight into the community, and normal Hive community moderation still applies.
• Same customization. Choose a theme, a style template, a title, and branding, and add a custom domain just like a personal blog.

To set one up, go to ecency.com/hosting, choose Community, and enter the community id (it looks like hive-125125). You must be logged in, since your account becomes the owner. Pick a term and pay by HBD or card. The community activates as soon as the payment is confirmed.

Frequently asked

Whose content appears on the blog? Your Hive posts. Because your content lives on Hive, your blog reflects whatever you publish.

Can I use my own custom domain? Yes. Add the Custom domain option for +$1 per month. See the Custom domain section above.

What happens when the term ends? Renew to keep your blog active. You can pay for another term at any time.

Can I host a community instead of a personal blog? Yes. Choose Community at signup and enter the community id. Your account becomes the owner and controls the site, separate from the community account. See the Community hosting section above.