There are lots of Free hosting service providers in the market since high demanding for non-tech user to get a website for personal usage or small business. Unfortunately, most of them are not worth even for trying since bad reputation for many companies to limit important features or adding ads into your site, even delete or take your domain away from you.
There are some (small portion) providers do providng some reliable and steady free service for quite a long time already. I have been trying some of them. Here are some of my personal experience to summarize their features and limitation on their services. Before you wasted your time to try any of them, take a look to see if you can find one matching all your requirements and also you can accept their limiation.
Strongly suggest to get a free VPS from Oracle which you can build your own server or websites without tolating those limitation from the free providers. At the same time, you got full control of your domain, traffic, and services.
Table of Contents
Free Hosting Service Provider Summary
This is a simple and incompleted list for those popular providers who are providing free web hosting service.
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Name |
Type |
Disk Space |
Monthly Traffic |
Operating Time |
Location |
Tutorial |
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PHP |
250M |
6G |
>10 |
US |
None Now |
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PHP |
100M |
1G |
>10 |
US |
None Now |
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000webhost |
PHP |
300M |
3G |
>10 |
US |
None Now |
|
PHP |
1G |
1G |
>10 |
US |
None Now |
|
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Xrea |
PHP |
1G |
1G |
>10 |
Japan |
|
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AwardSpace |
PHP |
250M |
5G |
>10 |
US |
None Now |
|
PHP |
1G |
50G |
>10 |
US |
None Now |
|
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FreeWebHostingArea |
PHP |
1.5G |
Unlimited |
>10 |
US |
None Now |
|
InfinityFree |
PHP |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
>2 |
US |
None Now |
|
Static |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
>3 |
US |
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Static |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
>3 |
US |
None Now |
|
|
Static |
Unlimited |
100G |
>1 |
US |
None Now |
|
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Cloudflare |
JS |
1G |
Limited |
>2 |
US |
|
|
Cloudflare |
Static |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
>1 |
US |
None Now |
|
GitHub Pages |
Static |
1G |
100G |
>10 |
US |
None Now |
|
Gitlab.com |
Static |
5G |
10G |
>5 |
US |
None Now |
|
Oracle |
VPS |
100G |
Unlimited |
>3 |
US, Japan |
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Azure |
VPS |
64G |
Unlimited |
>5 |
World |
|
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VPS |
5G |
Unlimited |
>10 |
World |
Some benchmark results from: http://www.free-webhosts.com/php-hosting-comparison.php
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More extensive list for free web hosting can be found from this URL:
- http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-php-webhosting.php
In the next part of this post, I will be more focuing on PHP type free hosting service providers.
x10hosting
Website URL: https://x10hosting.com/
Powered by SingleHop (https://www.inap.com/).
Features:
Storage Space:500 MB (can be increased after 7 days)
Inode (File and Folder) Count:50,000 Inodes
Max File Size:10 MB
Bandwidth:Unmetered
MySQL Databases:2
FTP Accounts:3
Domains:2
Subdomains:2
Domain Pointers:1
Email Addresses:3
Features:Softaculous auto installer, PHP version select
SSL/TLS Support / Certificate Auto Renew
Available subdomain for following root domains:
- x10.mx
- x10.bz
- elementfx.com
Limitation:
- Domain number, subdomain number,
Demo site:
Dashboard Login URL: https://x10hosting.com/login-select
After logged in, you will be able to create your services:
Make sure you are select one unused subdomain, else you will get an error but not revealing the subdomain has been taken.
You are able to apply your own domain into your created service:
Email Accounts:
SSL/TLS Certificate Auto Renew
Although it is saying “A trusted SSL Certificate was not found”
Byet.Host Free Hosting
Website URL: https://byet.host/
Byet Internet Services, an iFastNet.com company, is an industry leading, privately held Internet services company specializing in web hosting.
Main Features:
- PHP & MySQL included with every free hosting plan
- 1000 MB (one gigabyte!) Disk Space (cPanel shows unlimited)
- 1 FTP account and File Manager. Max 10MB File.
- Control Panel – cPanel / VistaPanel
- 400 MySQL databases & PHP Support
- Free tech support
- 5 Addon domain, 5 Parked Domains, 5 Sub-Domains
- Free Community Access (Forums)
- Clustered Servers
- No ads!
- SSL/TLS supported well
- Much more free domains to choose from
Limitations:
- No Email function (No Email accounts, forwarders, MX entry, SPF Records, or WebMail)
- No remote MySQL
- 10MB File for FTP uploading
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FTP accounts: 1 / 1 Sub-Domains: 3 / Unlimited Add-on Domains: 1 / Unlimited Parked Domains: 0 / Unlimited MySQL Databases: 1 / Unlimited Disk Quota: Unlimited Disk Space Used: 88 MB Disk Free: Unlimited Inodes Used: 12 % (3616 of 30019) Bandwidth: Unlimited Bandwidth used: 19 MB Bandwidth remaining: Unlimited Daily Hits Used: 0 % (0 of 50000)
Dashboard URL: https://cpanel.byethost.com
Free Domains:
- you-choose.10001mb.com
- you-choose.22web.org
- you-choose.2kool4u.net
- you-choose.66ghz.com
- you-choose.a0001.net
- you-choose.fast-page.org
- you-choose.html-5.me
- you-choose.humorme.info
- you-choose.iblogger.org
- you-choose.is-best.net
- you-choose.is-great.net
- you-choose.is-great.org
- you-choose.joomla-host.org
- you-choose.likesyou.org
- you-choose.loveslife.biz
- you-choose.my-board.org
- you-choose.my-style.in
- you-choose.mydiscussion.net
- you-choose.nichesite.org
- you-choose.social-networking.me
- you-choose.synergize.co
- you-choose.talk4fun.net
- you-choose.totalh.net
- you-choose.web1337.net
Similar providers:
- InfinityFree
- AeonFree
Demo Sites:
- http://netsec.iblogger.org/
- https://xjj.likesyou.org/pc.html
- http://blog.52xjj.eu.org
Infinityfree
Website URL: https://www.infinityfree.net/
Features:
- Fastest Free Hosting
- 99.9% uptime
- Unlimited Hosting
- No Ads
- Host Any Domain
- Softaculours Installer
- 5 GB Disk Space
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 400 MySQL Databases
- PHP 7.4
- MySQL 5.7
- Full .htaccess support
- Free Subdomain Names
- Free SSL on all your domains
- Free DNS Service
Limitation:
- No email
- No remote mysql
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1 / 1 |
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0 / Unlimited |
|
1 / Unlimited |
|
0 / Unlimited |
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0 / Unlimited |
|
5120 MB |
|
0 MB |
|
5120 MB |
|
0 % (0 of 30019) |
|
Unlimited |
|
0 MB |
|
Unlimited |
|
0 % (0 of 50000) |
Free domains list:
- .great-site.net
- .rf.gd
- .infinityfreeapp.com
- .lovestoblog.com
- .epizy.com
- .42web.io
Dashboard URL: https://app.infinityfree.net/login
Control Panel for the project:
Demo site:
http://xjj.epizy.com/
https://xjj.epizy.com
Features:
- 99.9% Uptime
- Fastest Free Hosting
- Completely Free Hosting
- Page Builder
- Secure Servers
- Technical Services
- Unlimited Disk Space
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 1 FTP Account
- 400 MySQL Databases
- PHP 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0
- MySQL 5.6
- Apache 2.4 with .htaccess
- Linux 3.2
- Free Sub Domain Name
- .HSTN.NE
- .ICEIY.COM
- .ZYA.ME
- Free SSL on all websites
- Free Cloudflare CDN, DDoS
- Free DNS Service
Limitation:
- Ads on Dashboard
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FTP accounts: 1 / 1 Sub-Domains: 0 / Unlimited Add-on Domains: 1 / Unlimited Parked Domains: 0 / Unlimited MySQL Databases: 0 / Unlimited Disk Quota: Unlimited Disk Space Used: 0 MB Disk Free: Unlimited Inodes Used: 0 % (0 of 30019) Bandwidth: Unlimited Bandwidth used: 0 MB Bandwidth remaining: Unlimited Daily Hits Used: 0 % (0 of 50000)
Dashboard URL: https://web.aeonfree.com/dashboard/
Demo Site:
FreeHosting
Website URL: https://www.freehosting.com/free-hosting.html
Free hosting package is perfectly suitable for lightweight websites like WordPress blog, Internet forum, or website built with our Site Builder. On average, free account can serve roughly 30000 daily visitors of PHP-based website, or virtually unlimited visitors of pure HTML website. We do not limit availability of your website – it will be online 24 hours a day.
You will need to register a new domain with them or transfer your domain from another registrar
Free hosting features:
- Own domain hosting
- 10 GB disk space
- Unmetered bandwidth
- 1 E-mail account
- 1 MySQL database
Limitation:
- NO Free subdomain hosting
- NO Free domain hosting
- NO PHP mail() and sendmail program
- NO Server configuration changes
- NO Services for users from selected countries
Deal breaker:
- No SSL ($29.95 OneTime Fees)
- No Subdomain ($14.95 OneTime Fees)
Freehostia
Website URL: https://www.freehostia.com/
Features:
- 5 Hosted Domain(s)
- 250MB Disk Space
- 6GB Monthly Traffic
- 3 E-mail Accounts
- 1 MySQL v.5 Databases
- 10MB MySQL Storage
- Free Renew every 12 months (Chocolate Plan)
Limitation:
- No free subdomain
- 2MB File Size Limit
Dashboard URL: https://cp.freehostia.com/
Alwaysdata
Website URL: https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/
Features:
- Unlimited sites and applications
Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc. with specific configuration per instance.
- Full SSL support
Free, automatic, Let’s Encrypt or custom certificates.
- Services and scheduled tasks
Workers, user programs, scripts managed by our scheduler.
- Managed databases
MariaDB (MySQL) and PostgreSQL (pgBouncer and multiple extensions available).
- Automatic backups
Daily backups (30 days), at a separate data center and accessible 24/7.
- Unlimited domains and emails
Full administration of DNS zones, antispam, mailing-lists.
- Auto installation app scripts
Limitation:
- 100MB Space
- No Free Subdomain
- Need to buy/transfer a domain to start
Freewebhostingarea
Website URL: https://www.freewebhostingarea.com/ or https://freewha.com/
Features:
- Free sub domains
- Free domain hosting for already registered domains
- – IDN support (internationalized domain name); you have to create your account in punycode
- e.g. www.xn--eqrt2gyzlkkv.com (any feedback on this new feature is welcome)
- – 99.8% yearly uptime guaranteed
- – instant activation
- – fast hosting
- – responsive support
- – daily/weekly backups on external source
- – no ads for new sites;
- – 1500MB free web space;
- – unmetered traffic;
- – apache 2.4 webserver with mod_rewrite (+ other important modules) enabled; .htaccess,.htpasswd support;
- – choose between php 5.6, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 with almost all extensions enabled (if you need anything custom, just ask);
- – free mysql databases powered by MariaDB 10.4;
- – phpMyAdmin
- – SSI support (Server Side Includes – .shtml);
- – full FTP support
- – access to our Control Panel
Limitation:
- No auto-installer to install apps
- Ads
- SSL certificate will need to be activated after there are some traffic
Dashboard URLs: https://newserv.freewha.com/
Web ftp site: https://webftp.6te.net/
AwardSpace
Website URL: https://www.awardspace.com/
Features:
- Disk space : 1GB
- Transfer traffic : 5GB / Month
- 1 domain, 3 free subdomains, 1 email, 1 MySQL DB, FTP (2 sessions)
- PHP,
- MySQL,
- App Installer (Zacky)
- Email Sending (31 messages/month), SMTP,
- No Ads . Ads on console, not website.
Limitation:
- 15MB upload file size
- No File backup
- Slowness on Dashboard
Dealbreaker:
- No SSL – need to upgrade to a hosting plan
Dashboard URL: https://cp1.awardspace.net/
Demo site:
http://51sec.mypressonline.com/
100webspace.com
Website URL: https://www.100webspace.com/
Features:
- Domains Hosted 1
- POP3/IMAP E-mail accounts 3
- FTP Accounts 1
- Subdomains 5
- Parked Domains Unlimited
- Full DNS Management
- Custom MX and A records
- CNAME Records
- Webmail – RoundCube
- Multilingual Control Panel
- 1-click Applications Installer
- 24/7 Customer Support
- 1-hour Ticket / E-mail Response
- Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates
- MySQL v.5 Databases 1
Limites:
- MySQL Database Storage 5MB
- Disk Space 100MB
- Monthly Traffic 3GB
Xrea
Website URL: https://www.xrea.com/
Features:
- capacity 1GB
- multi domain ○
- Transfer volume 1GB/day
- WordPress available
- chat support ○
Limitation:
- advertisement
- Japanese language
Host-ed.net
Website URL: https://host-ed.net/
Features:
- Disk Space 1 GB
- Inodes 25 000
- Data Transfer 10 GB
- Domains Hosted 3
- Subdomains 1
- FTP Accounts 1
- Email Accounts 1
- MySQL Database 1
- SSL Installation
Limites:
- no Custom MX & A records
- MySQL Database storage 10 MB
- Out of Stock now
