Edit your old website yourself, without a freelancer: connect hosting to AI

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В этом материале мы разбираем ключевые аспекты работы с нейросетями: актуальные модели, практические советы по промптам и примеры генераций. Читайте дальше, чтобы узнать подробности.

You know the feeling. The site has been up for three years, everything works — except the phone number on the homepage is still the old one. Or there's a promo banner that expired back in March. A five-minute fix. So you dig through your email for the freelancer who built the thing, and find out they stopped answering months ago. A new one will say: "I need to get familiar with your code, my minimum is $40."

To change one line.

We made it so an AI changes that line — and the hundred lines after it — right on your hosting. You say what you want in plain words; it finds the files and edits them itself.

Why this hurts so much

Almost every small business has a site: the nail salon, the car service, the little shop. It got built once, paid for once, and then it just sits there. Until the first edit.

And edits never stop coming. Prices change. A new service appears. The "Order" button points to the wrong page. The homepage copy went stale. Every time it's either a call to a freelancer and a three-day wait, or you try to climb into FTP yourself and pray you don't break anything.

The annoying part is that the changes are tiny. It's not "rebuild the site", it's "fix this bit here". But you pay as if it were a real project.

How it works here

NeuralSpace has a Code section — originally for building new apps and sites from scratch. We added the ability to plug in what you already have. It doesn't matter what the site is built on or who built it.

Open Code, tick "My own server or hosting" and pick the "Regular hosting (SFTP)" tab. Then four fields — the ones your hosting provider emailed you when you signed up.

What goes in:

• Host — usually something like ftp.mysite.com, or just your domain.
• Port — almost always 22, sometimes 21. If you don't know, leave 22.
• Login and password for the hosting. The ones from the sign-up email.
• Site folder — most often public_html or www. It's in your hosting panel too.

Hit "Test connection". If the details are right, you get a green "Connected". If something's off, an "Ask the AI to figure it out" button appears next to the error — it reads the message and tells you where the typo is (wrong port, no permissions on the folder, and so on). Useful, because I get lost in those SFTP ports myself.

Then you just say what you need

This is the part the whole thing was built for. Once connected, you talk to it normally:

• "Change the phone number in the header to +1 555 123-4567"
• "Remove the promo block, the sale is over"
• "Make the Book now button green and bigger"
• "Add a testimonials block at the bottom of the page"

The AI opens the files, finds the right spot in the HTML or CSS, edits it and saves straight to your hosting. Refresh your site a second later — the change is live.

No FileZilla. No "download the file, open it in Notepad, don't forget to upload it back". And you don't need to know where anything lives in the code. That's the AI's problem now.

The catch (honestly)

Shared hosting is a limited thing and I won't pretend otherwise. On it the AI can read and edit files: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP. So anything about looks and copy — go ahead.

What it can't do there is install dependencies, run a build or keep a process alive — that's the hosting's limitation, not ours. If that's what you need (say, deploying a real Node or Python app), the neighbouring "My VDS (SSH)" tab gives the AI full access with nothing tied behind its back. For a typical brochure site or landing page, SFTP is plenty.

One more thing: the AI works on the live site directly. So before any big rework, ask it to save a copy first — it can archive the site and restore from that archive if something goes sideways.

What it costs

Connecting the hosting is free. You only pay tokens for the AI's actual work — for what it really read and edited. Changing a phone number costs pennies. Your connection details are stored encrypted and used only for your project, nothing else.

Do the maths: one edit from a freelancer is $15–40 and a day or two of waiting. A dozen small edits a year adds up to real money for something you could do yourself in a minute, by saying one sentence.

Open the Code section, connect your site — and next time you want to fix something, you won't have to write to anyone or wait for anyone. You say it, it's done.

Часто задаваемые вопросы (FAQ)

Вопрос: Как получить лучший результат от нейросети?
Ответ: Используйте подробные промпты (описания) на английском языке, задавайте стиль и детали сцены.

Вопрос: Можно ли использовать эти материалы в коммерческих целях?
Ответ: Да, сгенерированный контент полностью принадлежит вам.