Server is the tier for organisations: the whole platform on your own VPS, so that a company, a publisher, a university department or an association can build a space of its own — blogs, forums, sites for projects and people — inside one system it controls.
Who It Is For
Not the individual author. A writer with readers is served by Creative, which already allows as many domains as the work needs. Server is the answer when the requirement is organisational: your own installation, your own rules for who gets an account, your own perimeter.
What You Get
- The complete platform on your machine: multi-site engine, admin panels, templates and themes, reader accounts with email activation.
- The ability to hand out the other tiers inside your own space — pages, sites, fan societies for the people in it.
- AI in the panel for drafting, planning and reading statistics.
- Optimization for search engines and language models across everything you host.
Advertising and Profit
The rule of the platform holds here as everywhere: advertising in your space is yours to sell, and the revenue is yours to keep. The software is ours; the audience and the money are yours.
What It Costs
Agreed case by case. There is no list price for Server, and putting one here would be dishonest: what it costs depends on what you want built and how much work that turns out to be. Tell us what you have in mind through the contact form and it gets discussed properly.
Where the Machine Comes From
Normally your own — the platform is installed on the hosting you already use, and it stays your infrastructure. Buying hosting from the platform side is possible as an extra, but it is an option, not the way the tier works.