Exporting or Embedding Your Wix Site Elsewhere
Your Wix site is a standard HTML5 site, and is built with Wix’s technology. In order for your site to work properly, it needs to be hosted and operated on Wix's servers. You can, however, connect a domain to your Wix site, and purchase and manage the domain with another provider.
Wix offers a cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) technology, which has many advantages. Read more about them below:
Advantages of using SaaS technology
Advanced Security Monitoring
Your data is kept secure and compliant with the highest international standards. With 24/7 security monitoring, HTTPS and SSL protection, your website is always safe and secure. Wix's extensive hacker testing and DDoS protection makes sure you have secure and reliable servers for your site.
Accelerated Performance
Wix hosts your website on a global content delivery network (CDN), a collection of connected secure servers located around the world. Your visitors are automatically directed to their closest server, so your site loads faster for everyone, everywhere.
Automatic Setup & Updates
Your website hosting is automatically set up once you've published your website. Wix performs software updates and releases new features for you automatically.
99.9% Uptime
Enjoy enterprise-grade reliability so your website is always up and running on our secure and stable networks.
Learn more about Wix's free web hosting services.
SaaS technology has a limitation - that it must run on the provider’s infrastructure in order for it to work properly. Since Wix is a SaaS solution, your site must run on Wix’s servers. To clarify, the content you build on Wix belongs to you (see Wix's Terms of Use). The reason you can't use another host for your Wix site is that the SaaS architecture does not support external hosting since it uses Wix’s proprietary technology and relies on Wix’s services to operate.
If you embed your site into an external location, Wix cannot provide support, and Wix is no longer in control of the way your site appears or functions. Additionally, Google Analytics and search engines may not work properly with embedded sites.
If you have a domain hosted elsewhere:
Learn how to connect your domain to your Wix site.
Learn how to transfer your domain to Wix.
Important:
To connect a domain to your Wix site, you must upgrade your site with a plan.
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