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Get a free domain with Freenom and Cloudflare

Hiep Bao Le on May 24, 2020

Originally posted on my blog. Freenom is a domain registrar that provides unlimited free domains that last for one year. The only limit is that yo...
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Maydhya Maraj •

After all this is done, where can I host this website?

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SimplexShotz •

I found that using GitHub Pages works quite well :D

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Xan Surnamehere • • Edited

I would recommend these for frontend apps: Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, Netlify, or GitHub Pages.

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goyal-aman •

thanks for the great article. But who this is not suitable for professional usage? I am looking forward to hosting my portfolio in one of the domain I got using freenom. Could you explain on that point? Again thanks for this post.

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jasper-kollinz • • Edited

How to get an account there? The only way i could use is sign in via google ;/
When I want to checkout domains i get error "The address in your profile is not valid
The city in your profile is not valid"

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راعيها •

This page isn’t workingmy.freenom.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 503

i try to open the page but couldnt

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Williams Lee •

Hi, may i know why I can add my domain name
Thank you

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salihbezai • • Edited

thank you
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Haze •

Thanks!

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Yashwanth Reddy • • Edited

How to do URL forwarding?. By changing nameservers in freenom, URL forwarding is not working. Correct me if I'm doing wrong.

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Xan Surnamehere •

Vercel is a great option for hosting and URL forwarding.

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lepinekong •

By switching to cloudflare dns it will support @ record ?

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Block_Cipher •

Where should i host my website?

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Xan Surnamehere • • Edited

I would recommend these for frontend apps: Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, or Replit. (Possibly Glitch as well.) Some of these can also host your backend.

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codepyfan •

Just clicked the link to test it, found that the free-nom is already unavailable now.

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