WONS Sites is a publishing platform built in Thimphu. It exists because the ordinary way of getting a small organisation online produces a site that is correct for about a month.
A shop, a clinic, a tour operator or a school commissions a website. It is designed and built, it is handed over, and it is accurate on the day it goes live. Then the hours change for winter. A price goes up. Someone joins and someone leaves. A number that has been wrong for eight months is still the number on the contact page, because changing it means finding the person who built the site, and they have moved on, or they are busy, or the small invoice for a five-minute edit is not worth anyone's afternoon.
The site is not broken. Nothing errors. It has simply drifted away from the organisation it describes, and the longer it drifts the less anyone trusts it — including the people who own it. That is the failure mode we built against, and it is a content problem long before it is a technical one.
Your content and your design are kept as separate things, in separate places, and neither one can break the other.
Your content lives here, in forms. Pages, sections, opening hours, staff, services, photographs, the phone number. There is nothing to publish and nothing to rebuild — you save a form, and the next person who loads your site sees it.
Your design is a theme: a shell, a stylesheet and a small renderer that receives your content and draws it. Changing theme changes how your site looks and touches none of your words. That sounds like a small thing. It means the decision that usually costs a rebuild — “this design has dated, we need a new site” — costs an afternoon and no content migration.
sites.bt. That file asks us for your
content as JSON and for your theme's files, and renders in the visitor's
browser. You are never locked to our hosting, because we are not your host.
Uploaded files are stored privately and handed out as signed links that expire. A document you put in a members' area is not a URL somebody can guess or a search engine can index by accident. This costs us a little complexity on every page render and we think it is the right trade.
Site analytics record the page that was requested, the host a visitor arrived from, a broad device class, and the date. There is no visitor identifier, no cookie, and the IP address is not stored. You can see which of your pages people read; neither you nor we can follow one person around. The privacy page lists every field.
A free site carries adverts. We say so on the pricing table, on the plan itself and here, because “free” with an unexplained cost attached is how people end up feeling tricked by software. Every paid plan removes the network adverts, starting at the smallest one.
The platform runs on WONS Engine, our own server runtime — a single binary, no build step, no JavaScript framework, no dependency tree to audit at three in the morning. That is an unfashionable choice. It means the whole product is a handful of files a person can read, it starts in under a second, and it runs comfortably on modest hardware — which matters when your customers' visitors are on mobile data.
WONS Sites is built and run by WONS, in Thimphu, Bhutan. We are a small team, which shapes the product in ways worth being upfront about: we would rather do a few things properly than ship a long feature list, we answer support ourselves, and when you write to us the reply comes from someone who can change the code.
The platform was developed by WONS, a software company founded in Thimphu in 2023, in collaboration with ByteTech Labs, an engineering and infrastructure firm based in Thimphu and Phuentsholing.
A software company founded in Thimphu in 2023. WONS builds custom software, websites and mobile apps, runs sites.bt, and writes these guides from the questions small organisations actually ask when they try to get online.
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We build for Bhutan first — prices in Ngultrum, payment through banks that
exist here, guidance written for someone registering a .bt
domain rather than someone in California. That is not a limitation we are
apologising for. Most website platforms are built for a market where
bandwidth is free and everyone has a card, and it shows.