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Put an HTML file, a zip or a PDF online and get a link

Drop in a file, pick an address, and it's live at yourname.liite.site. What you can upload, what Free includes, and what Pro adds.

The Liite team4 min read

Sometimes you don't need a page builder. You already have the thing: an HTML file an AI tool wrote for you, a zipped site from a designer, a PDF of your portfolio or your price list. You just want it online, with a link you can send.

That's what uploaded sites are for on Liite. You drop in the file, choose an address, and it's live at something like yourname.liite.site.

What you can upload

  • One HTML file. A landing page, a prototype, a small tool. It goes live as the home page of your site.
  • A zip or a folder. A whole static site with its pages, styles, scripts and images. It needs an index.html at the top, the same as any web server. If it's a single-page app (React, Vue and so on), tick the single-page app box and unknown paths go to index.html instead of a 404.
  • A PDF. It opens in a viewer that works on phones: scroll, zoom, search the text and jump between pages. There's an embed snippet if you want to show it on another site too.
  • Any other file. Images, Markdown, plain text, JSON, CSV and MP4 open in a clean viewer. Upload several loose files and visitors get a tidy list to download from.

How it works

  1. In your dashboard, choose New site, then Upload files.
  2. Drag in your file, folder or zip, or pick it with the file chooser.
  3. Type the address you want. You'll see straight away whether it's free. Addresses use lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens.
  4. Upload. When it finishes, you get the live link.

That's it. There's no build step, no server to set up and nothing to configure.

When something changes, upload again. The link stays the same, so anything you've already shared, printed or bookmarked keeps working. Each upload is kept as a version, and you can roll back to an earlier one if the new one has a problem.

For a small fix you don't even need to upload. Open the code editor in your dashboard, change the file and publish. Or use the visual editor: click on any text on the page and type.

Your site also gets a QR code in its dashboard, which points at the same address and keeps working after every new upload.

Why it's on liite.site and not liite.co

Uploaded sites can run their own JavaScript. That's what makes them useful, but it also means the code is yours, not ours. So uploaded sites live on a separate domain, liite.site, and never on liite.co where your account lives. Nothing an uploaded site runs can reach your Liite login.

Pages you build from blocks are different: we compile those ourselves, with no user scripts, so they live at liite.co/yourname.

What Free includes

On Free you can upload files up to 3 MB. That covers most single HTML files, small sites and PDFs.

Two things to know before you start:

  • Uploaded sites need a card on file. On Free, you add one by starting the free Pro trial, and you aren't charged during the trial. Hosting other people's files attracts spam and phishing, and asking for a card keeps most of it away. Your link-in-bio page never needs one.
  • Free uploaded sites go offline 7 days after you last publish. We email you before that happens. Uploading again, or moving to a paid plan, keeps the site up.

Free is good for sharing something for a short while: a draft for a client, a prototype for a meeting, a PDF for an event next week.

What Pro adds

Pro is for things that should stay online.

  • No expiry. Uploaded sites on paid plans stay up until you take them down.
  • Bigger uploads. Up to 25 MB on Pro and 500 MB on Business.
  • A password. Keep a site private and share the password with the people who should see it. Handy for client work, drafts and anything not ready to be public.
  • Your own domain. Serve the site from a domain you own, like yourname.com, instead of liite.site. You add a DNS record and we take care of the certificate.
  • More sites. Free includes 1 site; Pro includes 5.

Paid plans open soon.

A few tips

  • Check your file names. Web addresses care about upper and lower case, so Photo.JPG and photo.jpg are different files. Keep names lowercase and you'll avoid broken images.
  • Use relative links inside a zip. Link to about.html, not C:\Users\you\site\about.html. If it works when you open index.html straight from the folder, it'll usually work online too.
  • Compress big PDFs first. A smaller PDF fits the plan limit and opens faster on a phone.
  • Every site counts visits. Uploaded HTML sites get the same cookie-free stats as pages: views, referrers, countries and devices.

Got a file sitting on your desktop that someone keeps asking for? Sign up and send them a link instead.