Yes, free hosting is a legitimate web hosting option, offering a free hosting service with limited features and storage space restrictions. It's suitable for testing, but for a functional website, it's best to choose a cheap hosting provider. Hostinger's exclusive offer for TechRadar readers is as attractive as a suitable shared hosting service that becomes free with an exclusive refund. Our advice would be to stay away from free website hosting services entirely, since it's not a good option for most.
Choosing the best cheap web hosting services may be a better option if you're on a budget. However, if you still want to continue with a free website hosting service, scroll down to see the list we've made of the best on the market. Infinityfree stands out for good reason and ranks first on our list of the best free website hostings. It has a well-designed website that makes a positive impression and meets the requirements for us.
Your home page gets a C performance rating in our load time test, but other than that, it looks pretty solid. Infinityfree has been in business for more than six years, claims to have more than 400,000 users and offers unlimited disk space and bandwidth (albeit with a generous 50,000 daily views). You can host as many domains as you want, but you'll only have 10 email accounts and an FTP to upload your content. There are no hidden fees and, despite its free status, you'll get a 99.9% uptime guarantee (although that said, you'll be more or less alone if your site goes down) and the popular Softaculous Script installer with more than 400 applications.
Hostinger is one of the biggest brands when it comes to web hosting, with millions of websites hosted on its server. Our latest exclusive offer represents a big leap compared to what you normally get in the world of free web hosting providers. You get 30 GB of fast SSD storage with 100 GB of monthly bandwidth, strong DNS management, name servers protected by Cloudflare, plus full support (24 x 7 x 36) and an uptime guarantee (99.9%), something unheard of at this price. In the world of free web hosting, Byethost is part of Byet Internet, an American provider of hosting services, domain names and resellers.
With more than a million websites hosted, Byethost claims that its free hosting service is one of the most powerful networks in the world dedicated exclusively to free hosting. In addition, if you're ever interested in becoming a free website hosting provider, Byethost operates an independent entity - myownfreehost - which allows you to do just that. 000Webhost offers cPanel, a website builder, and an automatic WordPress installer, plus an added bonus is that there are no ads. However, bandwidth and especially disk space are low, with 3 GB of bandwidth and only 300 MB of disk space.
Googiehost could easily be confused with Googlehost due to its name; however it's still one of the best options in a not very good group of free website hosting providers. Creating a new account is simple but we were concerned that emails would reach our spam folder directly - a sign that some sites hosted by FreeHostingNoads might be on a reject list. FreeWebHostingArea may have the design of a 1999 website but it's another option if you want a free website hosting company that can give you unlimited bandwidth (or at least that's what the provider claims). In addition, it offers more generous storage capacity than most - giving you 1.5 GB of web space - in addition to three MySQL databases again outperforming most competing free website hosting providers.
The control panel is rudimentary and at the time of writing this article the site creator and automatic installer were not working properly leaving any user the task of uploading their files via FTP if they wanted to create their own websites. The maximum file size allowed in FreeWebHostingArea is 12 MB.
