Firebound

Jacob Riches started web development around three years ago and quickly found a passion for front-end design and systems engineering. He founded Firebound, a small collaborative web development team offering front-end scripting, design and system integration to freelance clients.

As the project load grew, hosting became a recurring tax. For a freelancer running several client projects at once, every hour spent on infrastructure is an hour not spent on billable work — and the setup cost repeats with each new project, not once.

What he needed was narrow: fast to set up, no complex DNS configuration, and SSL included at a sensible price. He’d explored alternatives, but found that on Netlify the cost of SSL certificates made it impractical for his budget.

After researching his options, Jacob landed on Tiiny Host for its simplicity and pricing. The ability to get a site live almost instantly — without waiting for DNS propagation — was the key differentiator. He started on the free plan to test the platform, then upgraded to Solo once he was ready to remove ads and connect his own domain.

“I would probably describe it as a simplistic and relatively middle-range priced static website hosting for people that don’t want to spend too much time on it. It’s instant, very quick — and I like that.”

Tiiny Host now sits at the front of Firebound’s standard stack: Tiiny Host for static hosting, Vercel for backend services, Firestore for databases. It carries the Firebound company site, client work, and a game the team has been building for the past five months, across a mix of HTML, JavaScript and PHP files.

A year in, Tiiny Host has become Jacob’s default recommendation whenever a client has no hosting preference of their own.

The compounding win is time. Less time spent on setup means more time spent on development — which matters exactly when juggling several freelance clients at once.