Here are some free to use hosting services for web developers
When developing a web application or website, you willl want to be able to share it with the world. Hosting
a website can be costly. Fortunately, there are a number of hosting services out there that offer a pretty descent free plan, enabling you to use them without worrying about servers. These hosting services run in the cloud and some may support Static Sites, Backend or even cloud functions. All of these services provide a subdomain link to the apps you deploy so you can share it.
Let's have them !
DomainRacer
DomainRacer is one of the most widespread and cheapest hosting service for developers. They provide hosting services
such as Shared, Reseller, VPS, and Dedicated server along with Application Based solutions like Wordpress, Joomla, Magento, PHP and NodeJS along with MySQL as database service.
DomainRacer services are very affordable and they include a free domain name in advanced hosting plans.
They also provide advanced security solutions from ImunifyAV+ and Imunify360 to DDoS protection, Spam protection and Firewall
DomainRacer features include
- Support for PHP 5.6 to latest
- 7+ security options and 9+ data centers
- No hidden charges and "0-cost" SEO tool
- 99.99% guarantee uptime
- Low latency and up to 1 second page load time
- And more
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Vercel
Vercel is an amazing service. They allow you to ewasily develop applications, previewing them before setting it to production. They provide multiple URLs for all of yours apps, each having a specific use in development. The free plan offers you the following :
- Ability to add custom domains (max of 50 for free plan)
- 100GB Bandwidth and storage
- Cloud/Serverless Functions
- Edge Network
- CI/CD
- Unlimited sites
- A CLI for easy deployment
Netlify
Netlify is a direct Vercel competitor. Additionally, they support handling of form submissions (100 per site per month), 1000 identified active users per site per month and site analytics.
Koyeb
Koyeb is a simple, serverless deployment platform. They offer ability to build and deploy python, node, rust, php, ruby and even docker containers to their cloud services.
Koyeb offers up to 2GB of RAM per service and all of the above runtimes + SSL, Git and message broker in their free plan.
Layer0
Layer0 is a JamStack deployment platform. They allow you to deploy JAMStack websites very easily using technologies like Next.js, Nuxt.js, React and more. They also provide serverless environment for running javascript functions.
You have 1 custom domain, 100GB bandwidth and analytics on their free plan.
Qovery
Qovery is another hosting service which provide hosting for full stack web apps and built-in databases.
They provide unlimited apps and databases, unlimited users, Github integration and custom domains on the free plan.
Heroku
This is a hosting service for full stack apllications in the cloud. They support Python, Ruby, Java apps and many more. Their free plan provide 550-1000 dynos (500 hours monthly compute). They support CI/CD.
Stormkit
This is a JavaScript only hosting service. That is, they allow you to host only JavaScript apps using their services. The free plan allows :
- 1 app
- 50GB Bandwidth
- Unlimited domains
- Unlimited deployments
Hostman
This is another cool hosting service for both backend and frontend. Their free plan allows you to host only 10 websites (static) and deploy to their global edge network. They offer 100GB monthly with bandwidth included.
Glitch
This is a free service that allow you to host full stack apps in NodeJS. They allow you to worl with other languages as well. Moreover, they provide you with an editor and an integrated terminal for working. It also allows collaborative work on a project. They provide 1000 hours for all projects per month.
Repl.it
This other service is similar to glitch. It support so many languages and the free plan is pretty nice.
Surge
This is a static sites hosting service. Unlike the other, this one does not provide a Free SSL certificate. They have a CLI for easy deployments
Firebase
Firebase is a PaaS Google service. It allows you to create application backend easily without coding. It also allows you to host static websites for free. Firebase is very easy to use and provides a CLI to manage yours apps . They also support hosting cloud functions.
Render
This service is pretty the same as heroku except the free period is within ine month
GitHub Pages
If you have a GitHub account, this might be your go-to choice for hosting. They allow you to host static sites for free on a domain of the form : .github.io. It allows you to blog, show off and host a static sites for all of your github repositories.
begin
This service allows you to host your full stack, frontend or backend apps on their global network, supports serverless functions. Their free plan allow a max of 5 apps.
Deta
Deta allows your ro host python and node apps in the cloud. They also provide a built-in database, automatically installed on every app. They provide storage for storing files like images, videos and many more. Unfortunately they allow to deploy through their CLI only.
Fly
Fly is another hosting service that allows you to deploy yours apps on virtual machines in the cloud. They provide 160GB bandwidth per month for free and 8million compute seconds per month, descent free plan.
Fleek
Fleek proovides storage, hosting and databases all in one. They allow you to deploy from version control services like bitbucket, gitlab and github. It is nice to use.
You have reached the end
Above was a list of hosting services i had collected over sometime while searching for hosting services for my websites and apps. Now you have no excuses not to deploy and share your apps to the world. I hope you liked it.
Top comments (24)
Digital Ocean App Platform is also interesting.
Well I would have included it if you were not required a credit card or an initial $5 payment with PayPal
True that
Yes! I was also about to mention the new DigitalOcean App Platform and that you could host static sites on there for free.
Since you mentioned GitHub pages, there's GitLab Pages too as an option.
is there any free hosting that supports database based websites like wordpress
Heroku provide a way to connect to different databases
I don't know. I did not carry out any research on that. Might come soon 👌
Let me add AlterVista free PHP / MySQL shared hosting:
Actually I am not aware about below free web hosting services, because I had never used their services.
Yes, there are several free hosting services available for web developers in the market. If you want to grow your business rapidly then you can go with good hosting services which are provide unlimited resources. Here we tested dozens see it here for low cost web developer hosting services.
There are top most beneficial web hosting services for web developers
· DomainRacer – Free Ranking SEO Default tool with 21x Faster LiteSpeed..!
· A2 Hosting – Free but Limited Resources….!
· DreamHost – High Costing But Popular Hosting….!
· Hostpapa – Cheap Cost But Limited Time…!
One of my close friends suggested to me about the DomainRacer. Because he had been using it for 3 years and was completely satisfied with it. So I went for the DomainRacer.
DomainRacer is a global hosting company and as per your needs, I strongly recommended DomainRacer. Because it gives a reasonable cost.
Thank You….!
Hi Josias! What a great list! As a web developer who is managing a lot of clients at a time, I had to choose the best hosting that offered the choice of having unlimited websites on one platform. I tried out Cloudways 3 day free trial and was mindblown with the user-friendliness of the platform. It’s been 8 months and I am super satisfied with Cloudways performance, my website’s speed, and the flexibility I get to scale the serve according to my needs. When it comes to hosting, I always look for a pay as you go model and Cloudways luckily has the same.
Cloudflare just announced their new service named pages for Jamstack apps. Their free plan definitely will beat all of the plans listed above.😀
I came accross it too. I am going to add it in the next update
Thank you so much for sharing free hosting services.
Hey friends that so cool, very interesting post. Any friend call me for help about your projects!
Good thread, thanks for sharing
What about Repl.it?
This is a great list. Very helpful and informative. Thanks a lot for posting.
It was very helpful, Thanks lot.
Happy it helped
Hello,
Thanks you can add openode
Regards
Hi Josias, thank you so much for this neat list and for adding Stormkit. Really appreciate it :)