What is the best Free Web hosting?

AnimeshBhatt

AnimeshBhatt

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I am looking for some best free web hostings which can allow:
1. My personal domain
2. Good Bandwidth and storage
3. Free SSL
4. Easily host WP websites
 
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netlify offers a free tier that is decent. Their paid tiers are also pretty good if you decide to go with that.
 
Free hosting is good for those who has the projects which can be lost one day with no regret.
Such services does not provide any guarantee, so one day you may lose everything.
 
Free hosting is not suitable to host personal websites. free hosting can use to learning purpose.

Namecheap has cheap plans to host personal websites.
 
it is not a good idea to host your project on free hosting, as they are not secure and you can also face a lot of downtimes. I recommend you to check out the BHW marketplace there are many cheap hosting options that are better than free hosting
 
Get a Raspberry PI 4 model B ( the 8gb version), a SSD (or two... in RAID 1 mode.. for data security). Connect the RPI through LAN cable (very important, do not use wifi... it has very high latency). Get a fast internet connection (does not have to be exclusive, i.e. you can use it for yourself too). Signup for packetriot free plan and point your domain to the ip provided by packet riot. That way, you will have a powerful VPS, free forever. It does have many shortcomings, but it still is better than free hosts.
 
Gogol said:
Get a Raspberry PI 4 model B ( the 8gb version), a SSD (or two... in RAID 1 mode.. for data security). Connect the RPI through LAN cable (very important, do not use wifi... it has very high latency). Get a fast internet connection (does not have to be exclusive, i.e. you can use it for yourself too). Signup for packetriot free plan and point your domain to the ip provided by packet riot. That way, you will have a powerful VPS, free forever. It does have many shortcomings, but it still is better than free hosts.
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hehe nice suggestion :D
 
AnimeshBhatt said:
hehe nice suggestion :D
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I have hosted multiple sites (all demo/non serious sites though) like that in past. I did get the cheapest non free plan on packetriot though (you get about 5 ips, and upto 20 tunnels for $5/month). It works, and that's why I suggested it. :D
 
Gogol said:
I have hosted multiple sites (all demo/non serious sites though) like that in past. I did get the cheapest non free plan on packetriot though (you get about 5 ips, and upto 20 tunnels for $5/month). It works, and that's why I suggested it. :D
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You are very intelligent :D
 
The best free web hosting provider is 000webhost. It offers reliable services with unlimited disk space, bandwidth, and MySQL databases.
 
BlurryBit said:
Get a Raspberry PI 4 model B ( the 8gb version), a SSD (or two... in RAID 1 mode.. for data security). Connect the RPI through LAN cable (very important, do not use wifi... it has very high latency). Get a fast internet connection (does not have to be exclusive, i.e. you can use it for yourself too). Signup for packetriot free plan and point your domain to the ip provided by packet riot. That way, you will have a powerful VPS, free forever. It does have many shortcomings, but it still is better than free hosts.
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I like this alternative approach. Might not be exactly free, but in the long run it's nigh-free. Will defo think about trying it myself, was looking for hosting suggestions anyhow
 
parasol said:
I like this alternative approach. Might not be exactly free, but in the long run it's nigh-free. Will defo think about trying it myself, was looking for hosting suggestions anyhow
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Awesome, give it a try! ;)

Btw, I forgot to mention that you have to keep the packetriot client running in your raspberry pi for keeping the port open. Follow the packetriot setup instructions for that.

Btw, if your isp is not port blocked and has a static ip, you don’t even need the packet riot service, which will save you an extra step.

The rpi takes around 5-12 watts of power during normal usage which is insanely low. So the server running cost and heat generation is pretty minimal.
 
BlurryBit said:
Awesome, give it a try! ;)

Btw, I forgot to mention that you have to keep the packetriot client running in your raspberry pi for keeping the port open. Follow the packetriot setup instructions for that.

Btw, if your isp is not port blocked and has a static ip, you don’t even need the packet riot service, which will save you an extra step.

The rpi takes around 5-12 watts of power during normal usage which is insanely low. So the server running cost and heat generation is pretty minimal.
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Thanks for the follow up!

I wonder, if I use RPi (let's say I get my hands on model 4), would it be enough for hosting a rather simple website (I am still new to the hosting and web) and use it for something else? Something else being managing storage (have spare drives laying around) for LAN use?

Or should I get some sort of a dedicated rig going in that case? I am just not sure how much performance RPi can provide, even though it sounds really good price-wise.
 
parasol said:
I wonder, if I use RPi (let's say I get my hands on model 4), would it be enough for hosting a rather simple website (I am still new to the hosting and web) and use it for something else? Something else being managing storage (have spare drives laying around) for LAN use?

Or should I get some sort of a dedicated rig going in that case? I am just not sure how much performance RPi can provide, even though it sounds really good price-wise.
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Yepp it should be. However, your First Byte Time will be a little high for several reasons..

1) RPI by default uses microsd card. It sucks for data read/write. If you get a hat for SSD and modify the boot config to use the SSD instead, it will be faster.
2) The internet connection we use at home is a little slow, specially the upload speed. That will make the site slower.

For storage, I dunno... asustor nas may be? Try with what you have first.

As for performance, if you have let's say 1000 visitors per day, RPI should be capable of handling it fine (perhaps use cloudflare in the middle for handling ddos and caching the response). But if you have more, it will lag. Or if you are doing somethhing heavy, like media encoding, it will not work. RPI's SoC is not the most powerful one, but it is pretty good for the price.

Generally speaking, I prefer having multiple smaller servers and load balancing, than using a powerful rig.
 
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