Introduction
We write tons of code to make an awesome, effective, and useful website. Initially, we can see that website on localhost but to make it public we need domain and hosting. Domain purchasing and hosting websites cost a lot of money. For test purposes, we can use free domains and sub-domains to host the website. Today we are going to list 5 website where you can host your website for free of cost.
GitHub Pages
You can host your webpage online using GitHub. You need to create a repository for your website and put all the source code in it. You can find deploying and hosting in the setting section.
- PROS
- Free
- Right on GitHub
- Set up Instantly
- Easy to learn
- CONS
- Less Control over Domain
- Bad Cache
- Bad SSL Support
- Bad Cookies system
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is an integrated provider of cloud-based computing solutions. One of the Services they provide is Web Site Hosting.
- PROS
- Easy to use for beginners
- Free tier for 1 year
- New Innovation and Technology
- CONS
- Sometime maze for beginners as they provide a lot of services
- The pricing can get high
- Sometimes downtime happens
Wix
Wiz is mostly for people who don't want to code or don't know about coding a website. They have a number of templates and they use your choice to personalized the website according to your requirement.
- PROS
- Good Site Speed
- Massive Template Collection
- Drag and Drop Interface
- Market Your Site Easily
- CONS
- Free Plan Forces Wix Branding
- Tracking and Analytic require a paid plan
- Premium Plans are for Single Site
- Sub-domain is not that great
Netlify
Netlify lets you create a website using the repository on the git platform. You just need to pick the repository and run the deploy command. After completion of deployment, your site will be live.
- PROS
- Fastest Static Hosting and Continuous Deployment
- Easy to Deploy
- Free SSL Support
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CONS
There are very fewer cons but some can be
- Confusing UI
- Pricing Structure
Weebly
Weebly is the same as Wix, you do not need to write code. It is a clean and cut site builder. Great for e-commerce and personal website.
- PROS
- Solid Site Speed
- High Design Flexibility with Themes
- Editor is Simple and Easy to Use
- CONS
- Freeloader Stuck on the Weebly domain
- Limited Blogging Tool
- Pay for more Help
Last Note
Thank you for reading the blog post and I hope you like it. If you know more website you can add in the discussion list.
Top comments (47)
What are your thoughts on Heroku ? and Digital Ocean ?
Both heroku & digital ocean are premium hosting websites where you can host a variety of web applications. Both are very powerful & high performance. As mentioned by Suraj, both are paid.
Fun Fact: Dev.to platform is hosted on Heroku
Heroku has free tier.
IIRC, you can host 5 dynamic sites without a credit card.
With credit card, but you don't have to pay anything, you can have unlimited sites.
What is IIRC?, azure microsoft?, if you talk about Azure, they charge expensive, I hired support for Azure programmers, and for 1 question they charged me 30 dollars T.T
if i recall correctly
Digital Ocean has a free tier in their new App Platform that allows you to host 3 static sites for free.
digitalocean.com/products/app-plat...
Okay let me try ♥️
That's great description of both the website and nice facts bro 🔥
Digital ocean now allows up to 3 free forever static sites with their new app platform
Heroku is great, if you can live with the cold starts which are quite frequent and can cause a heavy delay. As far as I can tell (but that's not based on any research or performance testing), Netlify has a better free tier.
But I love both, very user friendly and have never been disappointed in any way. And now that Digital Ocean has jumped on the bandwagon, it might also be time to check that out. Their server offering is definitely one of the best around.
Heroku is easy to manage like GitHub pages ✌️
Okay love to try ❤️
I have less idea about heroku and digital ocean are great site but they need payment method to get start.
Heroku and Netlify are my choices
vercel is a great alternative to netlify
pythonanywhere.com is great for python apps
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There's GitLab pages as well, I'm using it for my blog and happy with it.
Yess, I am think host a blog website on github
I use this: Altervista Wordpress
is not the best around Internet, but have more features than the official Wordpress.com since start and for free; my site not have visits at moment, but for me is good to learn HTML and CSS, I have maded the entire code of my site alone, for learn web code
I'll check that website and thanks for mentioning the site
What your thoughts about firebase
Firebase is great for managing backend data and its cost nothing and back my Google. So highly recommend
Firebase hosting is for dtatic sites that use firebase services.
Although, you don't really have to use firebase services to use hosting.
Firebase provides a tone of features and mainly focused to work as a backend for small projects who can't afford premium hosting. The free tier is really great and can easily get a job done but if you have big plans then you may have to look into the paid options. Overall firebase is lovely and extremely simple to implement.
I personally love it. ♥
Yesss but it is good for backend database
Here are some more online services which provide free hosting:
Seems to be WordPress targeted.
Can I host something else, like Ghost?
WordPress is great but to unlock its full potential you need to buy a subscription.
Yesss, they are great for free hosting
vercel.com/ is pretty sweet too depending on your needs. Effectively one-click deployment.
Confusing UI for Netlify ?
I you are looking for free plan why are you looking at pricing structure ?
For free accounts:
Network Bandwidth: 100GB/month — Soft
Storage: 100GB — Soft
API requests: 500 requests/minute, 3 deploys/minute* — Hard
Free comes with "Limitation" . I would choose Firebase over Netlify.
Okay Firebase has greater depth in dabase management
Hey, Would you mind to write something on "Vercel"?
Very helpful & informative post, Thank you!
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