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Guides for leaving Squarespace with your site intact

• Adobe Fonts After Leaving Squarespace
  Your fonts broke after moving off Squarespace because Adobe Fonts stop serving. How to tell which fonts you used, the open source matches that look closest, and how to serve them from your own site.
• How to Back Up a Squarespace Website Before Cancelling
  A complete backup of a Squarespace site is three things: the content XML, the images at full size, and a static copy of the pages. How to get each, in the order that works.
• Closing Your Business but Keeping the Website
  A closed business still gets searched: old customers, press, your portfolio. Three ways to keep the site online after you stop paying for Squarespace, from free to a few dollars a month.
• Download All Your Squarespace Images at Full Size
  Squarespace serves resized copies of your photos. How to get the originals one at a time, and how to get all of them at once with a static export.
• How to Export a Squarespace Site as HTML
  Squarespace has no HTML export. Here are the three ways people actually get their site out: the WordPress XML, a crawler like HTTrack, and a measured static export. What each keeps and loses.
• Squarespace to Cloudflare Pages: Step by Step
  Host your exported Squarespace site on Cloudflare Pages in a few minutes: upload the site folder, connect your domain, turn on HTTPS. What keeps working and what to check.
• Squarespace to GitHub Pages: Step by Step
  Host your exported Squarespace site on GitHub Pages in a few minutes: upload the site folder, connect your domain, turn on HTTPS. What keeps working and what to check.
• Squarespace to Netlify: Step by Step
  Host your exported Squarespace site on Netlify in a few minutes: upload the site folder, connect your domain, turn on HTTPS. What keeps working and what to check.
• Squarespace to Amazon S3 and CloudFront: Step by Step
  Host an exported Squarespace site on AWS for a few cents a month: private S3 bucket, CloudFront with a free certificate, clean URLs, your domain. The exact steps and the two settings people miss.
• How Much Static Website Hosting Costs
  A static website (HTML, CSS and images) costs between nothing and a few dollars a month to host. What you actually pay for, where the free tiers end, and the one cost you cannot skip.
• What Happens When You Cancel Squarespace
  Your site goes offline on the renewal date, the domain follows its own clock, and expired sites cannot be exported. The timeline, what you keep, and the order to do things in.