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Sunday, November 1, 2020

7 “Best” Free Web Hosting Sites (2020)

 Article from: https://hostingfacts.com/free-web-hosting-sites/


1. Hostinger.com

The Best “Almost-Free” Hosting ($0.99/mo)

Hostinger homepage

Sub-domain included:Yes
Bandwidth:100GB
Disk Space:10GB
Support:Live Chat 24/7
Max. Websites:1
Max. Email Accounts:1
Uptime & Speed:Very Good
Limitations:See terms of use
Official website:www.Hostinger.com

After nearly 16 years in business and a client base of more than 29,000,000 people spread across 178 countries, Hostinger has become one of the free web hosting industry’s most dominant players.

Ok, so they aren’t technically “free”…

… But at only $0.99/month for their limited shared hosting plan they’re still one of the most budget-friendly web hosts on the market.

With average load times of only 355ms (the second-best we’ve ever recorded), they’re also one of the fastest.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Even their most basic plan comes armed to the teeth with a whole bag of goodies including:

  • 1 MySQL database
  • 1 FTP user
  • Access to their website builder
  • One-click install of WordPress or other CMS
  • 24/7 customer support (seriously, it’s one of the best)
  • 100GB of Bandwidth and 10GB of Disk Space
  • One free email account

And, if the needs of your site outgrow the limits of their basic hosting plan, you can always upgrade to their premium shared hosting plan.

Which include:

  • Unlimited websites
  • Unlimited email accounts
  • Unlimited bandwidth
  • Weekly memory backups
  • Free domain

Hostinger shared hosting pricing and plans

Limitations

One of the only major annoyances we had while reviewing Hostinger is that their user interface doesn’t give you access to a classic cPanel…

Instead, you’ll get a slightly downgraded made-in-house interface called the hPanel.

It’s not our favorite user interface, but – considering the exceptional speeds, customer support, and features – we’re hard-pressed not to hold it against them.

Hostinger’s “shared plan” average uptime and load time in 2019:

Hostinger's uptime and speed 2019
Hostinger’s uptime and speed 2019

With some of the fastest speeds we’ve ever seen and uptimes on par with those of HostGator’s Cloud, Hostinger is the best “almost free” host that we’ve ever reviewed.

Visit Hostinger.com

…or read our full Hostinger review here.

2. 000WebHost.com

$0/mo – But 2 Hours Offline Every Month

000WebHost Homepage

Sub-domain included:Yes
Bandwidth:3GB
Disk Space:300MB
Support:Forum/Knowledge Base
Max. Websites:1
Max. Email Accounts:0
Uptime & Speed:Bad Uptime, Good Speed
Limitations:See terms of use
Official website:www.000WebHost.com

“Zero cost web hosting with PHP, MySQL, cPanel, and no ads!”.

That’s the marketing slogan of 000webhost.com, Hostinger’s partner company, and one of the top-rated free web hosts in the world.

Now, if it sounds just a little too good to be true – IT IS!

Yes, 000WebHost offers impressive speeds (especially for a shared free host), and their no-ads policy makes for a much cleaner and friendlier user experience.

Unfortunately, these two factors alone simply aren’t enough to compensate for the myriad of other limitations.

000webhost free hosting

*Note: It’s worth mentioning that 000WebHost experienced a massive security breach back in 2015 where the private information of more than 13,000,000 customers was leaked.

Limitations

Of the many problems that we experienced while reviewing 000WebHost, none was more prevalent or frustrating than their utterly unusable uptimes.

With an average uptime of only 99.70%, you can expect to experience at least an hour of downtime every other week on your site. Think of all the traffic and sales you might lose every single month.

To make matters worse, you’re also limited to a mere 3GB of bandwidth, 300MB of disk space. To top it off, there is no email or live chat customer support to assist you in the (all but certain) event you encounter a problem with their service.

Here’s 000WebHost free plan average uptime and load time in 2019:

00WebHost's uptime and speed 2019
00WebHost’s uptime and speed 2019

Despite having admittedly impressive speeds, with such horrible uptimes and heavy limitations, we cannot recommend 000WebHost to anyone unless it’s an absolute necessity.

3. InfinityFree.net

Most Unlimited Features

infinity free web hosting

Sub-domain included:Yes
Bandwidth:Unlimited
Disk Space:Unlimited
Support:Forum/Knowledge Base
Max. Websites:400
Max. Email Accounts:None
Uptime & Speed:Good
Limitations:See terms of use
Official website:InfinityFree.net

With only over 300,000 customers, InfinityFree is a relatively small player in the web hosting game.

Despite their small client base, they’ve managed to carve out a reputation for themselves as the most feature-rich free web host on the market.

Even though you will undoubtedly experience some problems with their service, this reputation is well earned.

InfinityFree comes with the following:

  • Free SSL certificate with all plans (a very nice bonus)
  • No front-end ads
  • Free Cloudflare CDN
  • 1 FTP account
  • Unlimited bandwidth and storage space
  • 400 MySQL databases.

It’s safe to say that InfinityFree gives you a big bang for your unpaid buck.

But when you skim through their terms of service and acceptable use policies, things start to get a little more “interesting.”

Limitations

What InfinityFree doesn’t advertise on their website is that their offers of “unlimited” bandwidth and storage space come with some seriously limited restrictions.

In their terms of service, they place significant and ambiguous restrictions on the types of content and files you’re allowed to upload. Also, the amount of the so-called “unlimited” bandwidth on offer is also questionable.

And the best part?

The penalty for non-compliance with the limitations on their “unlimited” offer is the suspension or elimination of your website and data – Ouch!

InifnityFree Terms of Usage

It’s also worth mentioning that InfinityFree doesn’t offer email accounts anymore. They used to have 10 email accounts included in their features but recently they disabled it due to being very limited to begin with and having multiple issues (only 10MB of storage per account, emails not getting sent due to bad IP reputation, etc.).

Here’s InfinityFree’s free plan average uptime and load time in 2019:

InfinityFree uptime and speed 2019
InfinityFree uptime and speed 2019

Generally, their uptime is pretty good, but this January, for example, we experienced over 40 hours of downtime.

4. Sites.Google.com

Great For Personal and Small Business Websites

Google Sites Homepage

Sub-domain included:Yes
Bandwidth:Unknown
Disk Space:Unknown
Support:Forum/Knowledge Base
Max. Websites:Unlimited
Max. Email Accounts:G-Suite($6/mo)
Uptime & Speed:Very Good
Limitations:See terms of use
Official website:Sites.Google.com

Despite being very well known for its search engine and other online products such as Sheets, Docs, and Gmail, they also offer a free website builder since 2008. The website builder got a complete rebuild in 2016 and currently hosts over 70,000 live websites.

Just like most other Google products, it is entirely free to use.

They offer responsive templates, drag and drop editing, embedding HTML and Javascript, and integrations with most of their other services(Drive, Maps, Calendar, and more).

You also get a free subdomain with an SSL certificate, and Google Sites features no ads on your website.

Limitations

It’s not all good though; the styling options are very limited. There is no way to add custom CSS or to even add fonts from their own Goole Fonts catalog.

The SEO options are also limited, and you cannot host Google Adsense advertisements.

Although we are still running our own tests to gather more concrete data on the real uptimes and load times of GoogleSites hosting, a superficial glance at the other reviews around the web suggests that it’s reliable and fast.

5. AwardSpace.com

Free web hosting that sounds too good to be true because it is.

awardspace hosting

Sub-domain included:Yes
Bandwidth:5GB
Disk Space:1GB
Support:Live Chat 24/7
Max. Websites:4
Max. Email Accounts:1
Uptime & Speed:Decent
Limitations:See terms of use
Official website:www.AwardSpace.com

With over 2.5+ million customers and 17 years in the web hosting business, AwardSpace has carved out a name for itself as one of the top free hosting providers available.

Award Space Hosting Stats

Some of their best features include:

  • 100% ad-free hosting to the MySQL database
  • 24/7 customer service (an admittedly enticing bonus)
  • One-click CMS (WordPress/Joomla) installation
  • 99% uptime guarantee

Everything looks amazing, right?

Unfortunately, a closer look will reveal questionable features.

Limitations

Although AwardSpace does a few things well, there are several glaring issues with their free hosting, which prevent them from serving as a viable option for any serious webmasters.

For starters, free users are limited to only 1 GB of disk space and 5GB of bandwidth. It means that your new site will be little more than a glorified “demo” of AwardSpace’s premium hosting packages.

There are also a few disconcerting lines of legal jargon in their TOS that seem to permit them to sell off your data to third-party vendors.

AwardSpace Privacy Policy

None of it really matters since the biggest problem with AwardSpace is the abysmally big downtime which on average is more than an hour a week.

Here’s AwardSpace free plan average uptime and load time in 2019:

AwardSpace's uptime and speed 2019
AwardSpace’s uptime and speed 2019

6. FreeHosting.com

Slow speed and no sub-domain

free hosting dot com

Sub-domain included:No
Bandwidth:Unmetered
Disk Space:10GB
Support:Tickets
Max. Websites:1
Max. Email Accounts:1
Uptime & Speed:Horrible
Limitations:See terms of use
Official website:www.FreeHosting.com

With a decade in the web hosting business and 15,000 customers, a European company, FreeHosting.com has grown exponentially. Nonetheless, as we’ve seen time and time again – popularity and performance aren’t always correlated.

Equipped with unmetered bandwidth (granted your website complies with their rather stringent acceptable use policy), you also get the following

  • A multilingual cPanel
  • 10 GB of disk space, one email account
  • A MySQL database

FreeHosting.com seems like one of the better free hosts available.

Freehosting features

As is self-evident with free web hosts, the endless stream of technical issues posed by FreeHosting’s service makes it all but unusable.

Limitations

With abysmally slow load times that border on the 2-second mark – it’s one of the worst uptimes we’ve ever seen and countless customer complaints of deleted websites and non-responsive customer service, FreeHosting.com is yet another web host that makes big promises but ultimately fails to uphold any of them.

Here’s FreeHosting free plan average uptime and load time in 2019:

FreeHosting's uptime and speed 2019
FreeHosting’s uptime and speed 2019

With some of the worst uptimes and slowest speeds we’ve ever recorded, we recommend that you avoid FreeHosting.com at all costs.

7. Freehostia.com

Low disk space and bad speed & uptime.

freehostia review

Sub-domain included:No
Bandwidth:6GB
Disk Space:250MB
Support:FAQ/Tickets
Max. Websites:5
Max. Email Accounts:3
Uptime & Speed:Bad
Limitations:See terms of use
Official website:www.freehostia.com

Freehostia sets itself apart from the competition with its unique plan names (who knew you could buy “Chocolate” web hosting?). In addition, they also have load-balanced server clusters – which allows for increased load times across the company’s assets.

However, these unique “features” don’t do very much to improve the quality of their hosting.

Their customer service has earned many glowing recommendations in recent years, they offer 3 free email accounts and up to 5 hosted domains (a rarity in the free web hosting space). Yet, these enticing offers aren’t nearly enough to offset the hefty restrictions and performance issues with which you’ll be faced.

Limitations

The biggest problem with Freehostia’s free hosting is the restrictions they place on your storage and bandwidth.

With a paltry 250MB of storage and 6GB of bandwidth, even the most minimalist of webmasters will struggle to build a site that contains more than a few images and a line or two of plain text.

However, the real nails in the coffin are the unreliable uptimes and incredibly slow speeds.

Freehostia might work for hosting a simple test site or low traffic blog… Nevermind – even that might be pushing it.

FreeHostia's uptime and speed 2019
FreeHostia’s uptime and speed 2019

Here’s Freehostia free plan average uptime and load time in 2019:

Although the uptimes and load times aren’t the worst we’ve seen (they’re still pretty bad), there’s no reason to use a company like Freehostia when you have so many other decent service providers available.

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