Aabhusan Aryal

Top 5 free web hosting providers in 2020

Nov 23, 2018
If you’re here, chances are that you are planning to create your own stunning website for free. Well, that’s not as tough as it used to be back then. Sites like freenom and byet.host has made it very much easy for people to have their online presence at no cost! Also, free web hosts can prove to be very useful when you are just beginning to develop a website and want to try out various different things on your site.
 
In this blog post, we shall be looking at top 5 free web hosting providers (and their features) which should help you set up your own website.
 
So let’s start!
 
 

1. Infinityfree

 
Infinityfree is one of the many popular web hosts and is the one I personally use. They have both premium as well as free plans, but we shall be looking over the free plan in this post.
 
Unlike most other free web hosts, it gives you unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, free SSL on all websites, free Cloudflare CDN and many more! Ideally, this has everything one might need to set up a good website. You can host any type of domain (including free ones like .tk, .ml, .ga)
 

Features:

  • Unlimited Disk Space
  • Unlimited Bandwidth
  • 10 Email Accounts
  • 400 MySQL Databases
  • PHP 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0
  • MySQL 5.6
  • Apache 2.4 with .htaccess
  • Free Subdomain Name
  • Free SSL on all websites
  • Free Cloudflare CDN
  • cPanel
  • Free DNS Service

2. Byet.host

Byet.host is one of the most popular free web hosting site. It is mostly because of the unlimited disk space and bandwidth that you get by signing up. Byet.host can be ideal for almost any kind of website you wanna build.

Byet.host‘s forum can be really helpful if you are just starting to build a site. It also has 24/7 support, unlimited MySQL databases, and many more!

Features:

  • Unlimited Disk Space
  • Unlimited Bandwidth
  • Unlimited MySQL Databases
  • Unlimited Add-On Domains
  • cPanel
  • Script Installer
  • Free Site Builder
  • Free Subdomains
  • SEO Tools
  • Free SSL

3.000webhost

000webhost is one of the sites to provide premium we hosting for $0.00. It is also proud of being shown as the top result when users type in “free web hosting” into Google.

They provide you most of the tools required to set up a complete new website. Once you sign up, you get 1GB disk space along with 10 GB bandwidth with a 99.9% server uptime guarantee. The only problem here is that your site will be down for 1 hour, everyday. You will be able to choose this time, but it still wouldn’t be effective if you want to launch something on an international scale.

Features:

  • 1GB Disk Space
  • 10GB Bandwidth
  • 99.9% Server Uptime Guarantee
  • Script Installer
  • Free Site Builder
  • Full PHP & MySQL database support
  • cPanel
  • Great Forum
  • Free Subdomains

4. Freehosting

Freehosting, as the name suggests, is another good free web host. It lets you to host TLDs only, which means you can’t host free websites like .tk, .ml, .ga. It gives you 10 GB of total disk space along with an unmetered bandwidth. It let’s you to host 1 domain per account, and you can’t host any subdomains.

Features:

  • 10 GB Disk Space
  • Unlimited Bandwidth
  • 1 email account
  • 1 MySQL database
  • cPanel
  • Site Builder
  • Script Installer
  • Apache with .htaccess
  • PHP 7
  • Unlimited FTP accounts

5.Awardspace

 
Awardspace is another website which provides free hosting. I personally wouldn’t use this site because it is much more limited than other sites in this list. It only gives you 1 GB of disk space and has a limited bandwidth of 5GB per month (enough for small sites though).
 
It is ideal for hosting your portfolio or a school project.
 

Features:

  • Script Installer for WordPress and Joomla
  • 1 GB Disk Space
  • 1 MySQL Database
  • 24/7 Customer Support
  • Free Site Builder

Aabhusan Aryal