Guide to Framer’s hosting infrastructure

Framer’s hosting infrastructure is built for simplicity, performance, and reliability, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) with CloudFront, S3, and globally load-balanced frontends featuring large in-memory caches.

Unique hosting features

  • Instant deployments and updates. Publish your site with sub-second upload times for instant global deployment, updates, or deletions. No waiting, just immediate results.

  • Dynamic resources. Framer automatically resizes and optimizes images, streams media, and bundles scripts for optimal performance. Our understanding of your design allows us to go beyond standard hosting providers.

  • Pre-rendering. Every site is pre-rendered (server-side rendering) at publication, including responsive versions. This ensures faster load times and superior SEO indexing.

  • Staging and versioning. Publish preview links without affecting your main domain. Promote or roll back versions instantly for flexible and risk-free updates.

Advanced hosting capabilities

  • Global presence. AWS CloudFront ensures content is cached and delivered close to users worldwide, minimizing latency and maximizing speed.

  • Load balancing. Hosting across multiple global servers ensures scalability, uptime, and high availability during traffic spikes.

  • Content compression. Automatically compresses content (gzip/Brotli) for faster delivery.

  • Image compression. Delivers images in the most efficient format supported by each browser.

  • Multiplexing. Uses HTTP/2 protocol to send multiple resources over a single connection, speeding up load times.

  • SSL certificate. Dynamically generates and updates SSL certificates via Let’s Encrypt for secure delivery.

  • Application firewall. Protects sites with a global firewall and provides DDoS protection for Enterprise plans.

Technical details

Our infrastructure is simple yet massively scalable. Static assets are stored in an S3 bucket, and pre-rendered HTML is served via AWS-backed caching Go frontends, ensuring instant updates and secure certificate management. CloudFront with AWS Accelerator and origin shield handles all additional content delivery.

Hosting options

For greater control or custom hosting needs, our Enterprise plans offer flexible solutions. Learn more about self-hosting using a reverse proxy or contact us for details.