In today’s digital age, everyone needs an online presence to promote their businesses, express their creativity and also a website serves as a virtual store for many businesses welcoming customers from across the globe. However creating and hosting a website may seem challenging especially when you are on a tight budget.
Luckily, we have some tools and platforms available which offer free website hosting without spending even a single penny. These tools provide us all the necessary infrastructure to publish your website on internet.
1. GitHub Pages – github.pages.com
GitHub Pages is a popular choice for hosting static websites. If your website consists mainly of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, GitHub Pages offers free hosting directly from your GitHub repository. Especially, version control of Git is amazing. We can also use GitHub to collaborate with open source projects on internet.
2. WordPress – wordpress.org
WordPress.com provides a free plan that allows you to create and host a basic website with a WordPress subdomain (e.g., xyz.wordpress.com). Basically we don’t even need to write any code to create our website in WordPress which makes it even more simpler. WordPress website remains fast, secure, and accessible to everyone.
3. Netlify – netlify.com
Netlify provides free hosting for static websites with continuous deployment from Git. It also offers features like form handling, serverless functions, and global CDN support. Mainly, Netlify is used for hosting websites which has frameworks like ReactJS, ExpressJS etc. However, It’s a fantastic option for hosting modern, high-performance websites.
4. Firebase – firebase.google.com
Firebase Hosting is a web hosting service provided by Google as part of the Firebase platform, which is a mobile and web application development platform. Firebase Hosting allows developers to deploy web apps quickly and securely. Personally, I have used firebase in my recent project in order to add functionality of authentication from google. With the Firebase CLI, you can deploy your web app with just a few simple commands.
5. Render – render.com
Render is a modern cloud platform that offers a range of services including hosting for web apps, databases, and background workers. We can directly link our GitHub repository to Render and trigger a build from the website whenever we change the code in our repository. It supports automatic scaling, continuous deployment, and provides built-in HTTPS and custom domains.
6. Vercel – vercel.com
Vercel is mostly used for hosting Next.js applications as it provides features like automatic SSL, serverless deployment, preview deployments, and collaboration tools. It can also be used for website with other frameworks like ReactJS, ExpressJS etc. Vercel provides integration with version control systems like Git, enabling continuous deployment workflows.
These are all the websites which help me build and host a website without any hefty investment. With these many free hosting options available, anyone can establish their online presence without spending a rupee. Whether you’re a developer, blogger, or professional, these platforms and tools help you to share your ideas with the world, one webpage at a time. So why wait? Explore the infinite possibilities of the web, where your ideas take flight and your vision becomes reality. Build your online empire without spending a penny!