Tiiny Host is genuinely good at what it's for: drag a file, pick a subdomain, and your page is on the open web in seconds. If that's the job — a page you want people to find, a site with an address you can say out loud — it does it well and there's no reason to move. The reason people go looking for an alternative is usually that their job quietly changed shape: the page is now a client deliverable, and 'publicly reachable at a memorable URL' went from being the feature to being the problem. That's what miinideck is built for — delivery to named people rather than publication to everyone.
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Up to 3 MB, link self-destructs after 7 days. Sign up free to keep links forever, password-protect them, and store more.
Drop the same file you'd have uploaded anywhere else — a single HTML page, or a ZIP of a built folder with its assets. You get a link back in seconds. No subdomain to choose, because the URL isn't meant to be memorable or typed by anyone: it's a long unguessable string, no-indexed by default, so the page doesn't appear in search results and can't be found by guessing.
Add the controls a deliverable needs. A password, so a forwarded link still needs the passphrase. An expiry, so a proposal or a review closes on its own. Both are free on every plan. Nothing on your reader's side changes — no account, no install, no platform chrome around your work.
Keep one link across revisions. Upload a new version and the address stays the same, with the password and expiry intact, so a client's bookmark never goes stale and you never send a 'use this one instead' email. On Studio ($14.99/mo) it runs on your own domain with the branding removed.
Not if your pages are meant to be public. For a portfolio, a landing page, a resource you want found, or anything where reach is the point, a public host is the right tool and switching would cost you the thing you wanted. The switch makes sense when the work is going to specific people — client deliverables, proposals, drafts under NDA, internal material — because then a publicly reachable address is a liability rather than a convenience, and you want controls that live on the link itself.
The direction the default points. A public host starts from 'this should be reachable' and lets you add restrictions; miinideck starts from 'this should be unguessable and out of search' and lets you widen from there. It sounds like a small distinction and it isn't, because defaults are what happens when someone is busy. If you deliver client work every week, the question is what happens on the day you forget to change a setting.
No — password protection and expiry control come with the free account, not with a paid tier. That's deliberate: treating access control as a premium upsell doesn't make much sense for a product whose whole job is private delivery. The one thing to know is that they need an account, free but signed in — an anonymous upload from the homepage is deliberately minimal, a single 3 MB file that burns after 7 days with no password on it. What the paid plans buy is capacity and permanence: bigger files, more storage, links that never expire, detailed analytics, and on Studio a custom domain with white-label.
Yes, if it's static. Download the files, zip the folder, and drop the ZIP in — the entry page is found automatically and relative paths keep resolving, so a built site behaves the same as it did. What doesn't move is anything needing a server: databases, logins, API routes. Those need a real deployment, and Vercel or Netlify are the right tools for that part.
Without an account, up to 3 MB with a link that self-destructs after 7 days — enough to test the whole flow before deciding anything. With an account it's 10 MB per file on the free tier, 25 MB on Solo ($4.99/mo) and 50 MB on Studio ($14.99/mo), with 100 MB and 500 MB of total storage on the paid tiers respectively.
No — never. They click the link and the page opens in their browser on any device, with nothing to install and nobody to sign up as. If you've set a password they'll be asked for that one passphrase, which is the only thing that ever stands between a recipient and the work.
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