# Import a site from its address Paste the address of a static site hosted somewhere else and we fetch its pages, styles, images and fonts, then publish the copy on a link of yours. ## Plan availability Importing is available on every plan, including the free one. Plan upload and storage limits still apply to the result. - **Free:** included - **Starter:** included - **Pro:** included - **Business:** included - **Enterprise:** included ## A crawl, a rewrite, and a normal publish We fetch the address you give us, follow its internal links, collect what those pages need, and rewrite the references so the copy works on its own. The crawler starts at the address you paste and walks the site's own links up to 40 pages and 600 assets, taking the HTML, the stylesheets, the images and the fonts. Then it rewrites the links and asset references so nothing in the copy points back at the original host, packages the result, and runs it through the same publish pipeline as a file you would have dropped in yourself. What you end up with is an ordinary site here, with its own address, its own version history and its own settings. This exists because the hard part of leaving a host is rarely the hosting. It is finding the files, and on an old site there frequently is no build any more: the person who made it is gone, the source is gone, and the only surviving copy is the one on the internet. Importing turns that into something you can hold. If what you have is already a folder or a ZIP, skip this and use the ZIP upload, which is faster and exact. ## How to use it 1. **Paste the address.** The public URL of the site you want copied. It has to be reachable without a password, because the crawler sees only what a visitor sees. 2. **Let the crawl run.** Pages and assets are fetched under a cap, then the references are rewritten so the copy stands on its own. 3. **Review and publish.** The result becomes a site here, on your own link. Check it, then connect a domain if it is replacing the original. ## When people reach for this - **Rescuing a site whose source is gone.** An old brochure site with no repository and no build. Import it, and you have a copy you can host, edit and keep. - **Leaving a host that is shutting down or getting expensive.** Copy first, compare, then switch the DNS. Nothing has to be taken down while you decide. - **Taking a snapshot before a redesign.** Keep the current site on a link of its own so the old version is still reachable while the new one is built. ## Doing this without us The manual version is a site mirroring tool plus a pile of path fixes. - **Getting the files.** Droply: Paste a URL. A command-line mirroring tool: Install a tool and get its flags right. - **Fixing absolute paths.** Droply: Rewritten during the import. A command-line mirroring tool: A find-and-replace pass you do yourself. - **Publishing the result.** Droply: Same step. It comes out live. A command-line mirroring tool: A separate upload to a separate host. - **Cost.** Droply: Included on every plan, including the free one. A command-line mirroring tool: Free, plus the afternoon. Compared against the general practice of mirroring a site locally with a command-line tool. Checked September 2026. ## When this is not the right tool An import copies what a visitor can see. Anything the original site produced on its server is not visible to a visitor. - A dynamic site does not come across as a dynamic site. A WordPress blog imports as flat pages, with no admin, no comments and no search. - Anything behind a login, a paywall or a password cannot be fetched, because the crawler is an ordinary anonymous visitor. - A page that builds itself in the browser from an API call will import as the empty shell it serves. - The crawl is capped at 40 pages, so a large site comes across partially. - Copy only what you have the right to copy. Importing someone else's site does not make it yours. ## Frequently asked questions ### Which plan includes site import? It is available on every plan, including the free one. Your plan's upload size and storage limits still apply to the imported result, so a very large site may need a bigger plan to publish. ### How many pages can it copy? Up to 40 pages and 600 assets per import. Bigger sites are copied partially rather than refused, so you get the front of the site rather than nothing. ### Will my WordPress site work after importing? The pages will be there and they will look right, but it will be a static copy. There is no admin, no comment form and no server-side search, because none of that is something a visitor can download. ### Can it import a site behind a password? No. The crawler fetches as an anonymous visitor, so it sees exactly what the public sees and nothing behind a login. ### Does the original site change? No. Importing is a read. Nothing is altered at the source, and the original stays online until you decide otherwise. ### What if the import misses something? You can upload the missing files into the same site afterwards, or use a ZIP upload if you can get an exact copy of the original folder. ## Related features - [Version rollback](https://droply.host/features/version-rollback) - [Custom domains](https://droply.host/features/custom-domains) - [Public API](https://droply.host/features/api)