# How This Website Works

> Canonical source: [How This Website Works](https://www.answer.cloud/pages/how-this-website-works-hosted/)

The answer.cloud marketing website combines Astro pages, editable CMS collections, generated discovery resources, and configured chat.

This website combines a public Astro marketing site with editable Blog, Documentation, and Pages collections. CMS entries are rendered through collection templates, and their existing public addresses are preserved during maintenance.

## What publishing generates

answer.cloud renders published content, text mirrors, discovery resources such as llms.txt and sitemaps, and the configured analytics and chat integration. These generated resources are part of the platform workflow rather than hand-written additions to the Astro source.

## Choose a workflow for your site

You can host a complete website on answer.cloud or create an AI companion for a website that remains elsewhere. An ai subdomain is an option for the companion workflow, not a requirement for every customer.

See the [hosted guide](https://www.answer.cloud/docs/mcp-hosted-sites-hosted/), [existing-site guide](https://www.answer.cloud/docs/mcp-existing-sites-hosted/), and [CMS Tools](https://www.answer.cloud/docs/mcp-cms-tools-hosted/). The on-site chat is answer.cloud’s configured experience; it is separate from visiting ChatGPT directly.