Nothing is free, free is in the form of promotion or marketing.
blogger platform for static pages (100% free but limited)
wordpress free hosting for websites
#1. blogger com / blogspot platform (free)
absolutely free
unlimited bandwidth,
no downtime
no technical knowledge required
custom top level domain integration
Free SSL
cons;
a subdomain yourname.blogspot.com unless you setup custom domain at ₹500-1000
No custom file uploads other than image,video,pdf
No FTP
static website
Bad URL structure website.com/year/months/pistname.html
moderation by blogger spam.
#2 wordpress.com not wordpress org (freemium)
just like blogger
you can create & write content
free hosting with limits
cons:
all are limited
you can select plans as low as $3 per month.
backend partner bouehost.
custom domain integration with domain price.
#self hosted $3/m (recommendation)
#3.google sites with custom domain (free)
absolutely free
pretty url structure unlike blogger.
best for business website
no resources limits
we have to use the page builder.
limited themes for customisation.
#4 google business listings page (free)
one place to manage all the things.market your local business with website.
integrate with Google ads, monitor your leads & conversations,
hire a AdWords or Google ads experts like 😜.
part 2
free hosting with cpanel ftp file hosting
#000webhost
I tried this in my early career as am student.
I went to internet cafe with my pendrive.
hosted smf forum site and wordpress. bought a domain for ₹100 .in for first 1 year.
problem: free hosting , I frequently got a message like
resources limits reached.
#xhosting
during my early career this x hosting attracted by eyeballs. Because subdomain ends with a single word.
X.com myname.x.com
part 2 free hosting offers are not recommended they ask you to upgrade later.
space: 1Gb
bandwidth: 1gb (upload& download size = 1gb,)
just like isp providers broadband / mobile data,
it’s shared hosting so memory, cpu not applicable to our account.
#3Accuhosting free hosting for students
features
cpanel to upload files
20gb space free SSD
30gb bandwidth (enough website size 3MB, 33visit 1GB a day, 30gb for 30days)
TIP* enable clouflare caching 80% bandwidth saving.
10 mysql databases
#4 bytehost
#200GB bandwidth for 1 month.
2.1gb space hdd
add 50 domains (not makes any sense)
#hosting without any ads.
Beware of free hosting without ads
as I said nothing is free, even your time also, because our body need that’s not free right 🤔.(self realisation).
it’s a business model provide free hosting, so users can generate content , if they get visitors we make money. or they pay for us to pay hardware bills.
#part 3 free cloud hosting (iaas)
#1 google cloud free one year trial $300 credit
if you choose 2cores 4gb ram 30gb ssd
you may get roughly $49- 50$ including bandwidth.
50*6=300$ for 6 months.
but wait this is not easy.
they just provide hardware, you need install the serve r software like apache ,nginx
not for beginners and entrepreneurs waste of digging into technical other than what you are good at.
hire a person like me 😂.
#2 free digital ocean $100 credit for 60 days
just like google cloud they provide (iaas- infrastructure as a service)
business model: kinsta a wordpress managed hosting provider uses google cloud infrastructure
and provides customers saas -software as a service.
It’s also technical thing but there better guidelines & Community for digital ocean.
try with referral link if you want to get $100 credit
you need have time &knowing the value of your time.
before testing with technical thing.
#3 amazon AWS free trial $3 for 30 days.
Amazon entered & established strong market before the google cloud entry.
so prices are high and still pretty popular because all courses related to devops. Offrering AWS course
google cloud captured their targeted customers too pretty much growth rate at 300%*.
#4 Alibaba cloud free trail $300-$1000
Chinese entrepreneur jackma company Alibaba entered in cloud computing business. so they are providing some free trilas to attract new customers.
#5 microsoft azure platform
Microsoft only targets b2b customers, many of us not aware this platform, you may checkout the free trails, another hands it promotes windows paid server, rather than free linux things.
my story on free website & hosting
1 decade ago searched for free website, tried all the offers
those are subdomains of promotional offers.
continuously searched & tested for free hosting with website. from evening to wholenight and next day.
no sleep at night 😴, finally found blogger.com.
instead of free website, I have to search free blog.
one keyword difference is bigthing.
with blogger I able to customize theme and look and with custom domain it looks pretty professional.abd resources limit. one year later moved to selfhosted wordpress for professional themes look. But stuck with worst shared hosting, tried vps , settled at cloud. But failed at content promotion.😓
free hosting for mobile apps
native apps beating web World because if mobile phones, so hosting for mobile apps getting popular, but google also captured these targeted customers by GCP platform’s firebase, but customers also looking at AWS, microsoft azure
are you fed up with free-hosting? It’s time to upgrade
- cheap hosting aka shared hosting ($/m)
- vpshosting (better resources & partial support) ($$/m)
- managedwordpress hosting ($$-$$$)
- dedicatedcloud hosting (iaas) ($$-$$$)
- try a data center /hosting business ($$$$+)